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: Plymouth Grove Writing Group

Our informal, supportive creative writing group meets every fourth Thursday and is led by published writer Nick Holland. £1 per session plus usual house admission (your ticket is valid for 12 months) No need to book just drop in!  

: Plymouth Grove Writing Group

Our informal, supportive creative writing group meets every fourth Thursday and is led by published writer Nick Holland. £1 per session plus usual house admission (your ticket is valid for 12 months) No need to book just drop in! Nick Holland is the author of an acclaimed biography of the youngest Bronte, ‘In Search of Anne Bronte‘ which was called ‘an excellent book full of passion and pathos’ by the Mail on Sunday.  His biography of Guy Fawkes, ‘The Real

: Plymouth Grove Writing Group

Our informal, supportive creative writing group meets every fourth Thursday and is led by published writer Nick Holland. £1 per session plus usual house admission (your ticket is valid for 12 months) No need to book just drop in! Nick Holland is the author of an acclaimed biography of the youngest Bronte, ‘In Search of Anne Bronte‘ which was called ‘an excellent book full of passion and pathos’ by the Mail on Sunday.  His biography of Guy Fawkes, ‘The Real

: Plymouth Grove Writing Group

Our informal, supportive creative writing group meets every fourth Thursday and is led by published writer Nick Holland. £1 per session plus usual house admission (your ticket is valid for 12 months) No need to book just drop in! Nick Holland is the author of an acclaimed biography of the youngest Bronte, ‘In Search of Anne Bronte‘ which was called ‘an excellent book full of passion and pathos’ by the Mail on Sunday.  His biography of Guy Fawkes, ‘The Real

: ‘Household Commotion’: Elizabeth Gaskell and the ‘awful treasure’ of her servants, 1832-1865.

This new interactive exhibition explores in detail some of the individual servants that worked for the Gaskell family including Hearn, Elizabeth’s faithful housekeeper, and Will Preston, the outdoor servant from Cumbria, whose letter was found during the renovation work. A Letter to William In July 2016, while working on the Coach House at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House, workmen discovered a letter wedged between the brickwork and roof trusses in what is now the Nightingale room. Although the pages were