10 year Anniversary

23. A Year in the Life of Elizabeth Gaskell’s House

17 - 23 March 2025 The sun was shining and the visitors were out in force this week. Hurrah! Despite my intention to take a break (and a stroll around the 'grounds') it never quite happened so I had to be satisfied

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22. A Year in the Life of Elizabeth Gaskell’s House

9 - 16 March 2025 Pleased to report a much better week across the board. We started the week with good visitor numbers and spend at our March second-hand book sale - helped I'm sure by our buy one get one free

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21. A Year in the Life of Elizabeth Gaskell’s House

3- 7 March 2025 Despite the sunshine this week, dark clouds were abundant in my inbox (and the wider world) and I was reminded of the quote from North and South - 'the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon

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20. A Year in the Life of Elizabeth Gaskell’s House

24-28 February 2025 This week we finally got announce our three writers in residency - so there was a lot of emails to answer/copy to check and images to collect at the start of the week - and then I spent /Thursday

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19. A Year in the Life of Elizabeth Gaskell’s House

17-23 February 2025 Half-term turned out to be a very busy week for us on our all open days with lots of families and groups visiting, doing crafts and generally enjoying themselves. We were a little low on volunteers so staff spent

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