Groups Launch Event
Monday 26 February is to be a special date for the UK travel trade as women and their role in shaping our society sheds light on two closely linked visitor attractions. Writer Elizabeth Gaskell’s House and the nearby Pankhurst Centre, birthplace of
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#LancashireDay
As part of our Lancashire Day celebrations around 27 November we are running a prize draw in conjunction with The History of Lancashire in 70 Objects project. Visitors to the house from Wednesday 22 November until 29 November can enter a prize draw
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Conservation Cleaning
On 31 October I, along with several other passionate volunteers at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House, attended a fascinating and informative conservation cleaning course led by conservation cleaning professional Nettie Cook. Nettie has previously worked for the National Trust and we had the pleasure
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New Brown Signs
To misquote Elizabeth ‘we’ve got a brown sign Yes! we really have’. It's taken us three years, but we finally have brown signs from Upper Brook Street and the A6 directing people to Elizabeth Gaskell's House for open days, group tours, room
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Yesterday Elizabeth Gaskell was once more visiting the county she loved, Cheshire, as part of the Cheshire Local History Association’ s History Day in Northwich, a town not too far from her native Knutsford. I spoke to a packed hall of over
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