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.
The joy of volunteering…
Volunteering at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House comes with lots of benefits – and one of them is meeting such a lot of interesting and lovely people who share my interests! There’s a production of Schiller’s Mary Stuart currently playing at the Lowry Theatre
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Victorian Christmas Decorations
Before Queen Victoria‘s reign started in 1837 nobody in Britain had heard of Santa Claus, no Christmas cards were sent and most people did not have holidays from work. The wealth and technologies generated by the Industrial Revolution of the Victorian era
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Christmas with the Gaskells
Elizabeth’s husband, William, was a minister of religion, so the Gaskells celebrated Christmas as a religious occasion. They would attend the Christmas Day service at the Cross Street Unitarian Chapel, where William was minister. This usually entailed walking into central Manchester. “Xmas
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Changing lives: volunteering helps teacher rebuild his life after a stroke
I am convinced that had I not volunteered I would not have progressed either so far or so fast. On the Wednesday 10 2016 the Heritage Lottery Fund came to the House to interview one of our excellent volunteers for their Changing
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