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Time Travellers and the Crystal Dome – Stories from the Portico

The Portico Library and Seven Arches Publishing are launching their second edition of the Time Travellers and the Crystal Dome – Stories from the Portico at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House on Sunday 30 September 2018 at 1.30 – 4.00 pm.

Readings by Alison Padley-Woods (short-listed author for The Times Chicken House prize) and by children whose winning writing is published in the 2018 edition of ‘ Time Travellers and the Crystal Dome – Stories from the Portico’.

There will be tea and cakes, fun and games and Victorian clothes to dress up.  If you are brave enough to come dressed as a Victorian you could win a prize!!

This event is being organised by Seven arches Publishing and is included in admission. Space is limited to so please do arrive in good time.

30th Sep 2018

1.30pm - 4pm

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