Our blog post cover everything that happens at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House from the stories discovered about objects and furnishings, to family connections and past residents. You can read about the garden and the plants we grow as well as the volunteering experience we offer to our brilliant team. The majority of the posts are written by volunteers.
Amber sunlight streaming on the gold-grey Roman roofs
It was only a week before the recent warm and sunny Easter weekend that I looked out of the window at the blue sky and the sunshine and thought that at last spring was here. In previous weeks the wind had been
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Celebrating Primroses
April 19 is Primrose Day, and marks the anniversary of the death of Benjamin Disraeli, twice Prime Minister of England and also a prolific novelist who said that when he wanted to read a novel, he wrote one! The primrose was his
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Visiting Manchester Cathedral
To celebrate English Tourism Week 2019, Visit Manchester organised a culture swap across Manchester's heritage venues. We were lucky enough to visit the Grade 1 listed Manchester Cathedral where Amos Millington, one of the Cathedral volunteers, gave us a most interesting tour
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Edgeworthia chrysantha: a shrub with history
On the 3 April we planted an Edgeworthia chrysantha in the large border to the side of Elizabeth Gaskell’s House. A month earlier I had visited RHS Wisley and seen these shrubs for the first time. Over a hundred of them have
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My family, the Dukinfield Darbishires
Sascha Roos, a member of the Dukinfield Darbishire family - who were great friends of the Gaskells - visited the House recently and has written this fascinating blog about her family connections with the Gaskells... About my family, the Dukinfield Darbishires, or
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