10 year Anniversary

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

10-16 February 2025 Love is in the air this week. Our social feed is filled with photos, and quotes from romantic literary heroes and our (sell-out) online talk on Wednesday set hearts racing as we discussed how Elizabeth Gaskell, Jane Austen and

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

3-7 February 2025 Ticked some long-standing things off my to do list this week including a small grant application for a project, an expression of interest (EOI) for a bigger grant to cover some maintenance costs, and an application for an industry

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

27-30 January 2025 Work has begun in earnest on the museum content for the Bloomberg Connect App and it's where Ellie and I have spent a lot of our time this week. We had more meetings/training, maps to sort, images to upload

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

20 - 24 January 2025 So called #bluemonday wasn't so blue when I discovered that it had been a very busy Sunday visitor wise. Hurrah! a positive start to the week. Added to this, some new shop merchandise we had been waiting

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

12 - 17 January 2025 This week I was relieved and very pleased finally to see our five page feature in the January issue of Lancashire life celebrating our 10-year anniversary. It was great local coverage for our small museum - a

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