September

Sunday 7 12-4pm
Open Day
Tours of the unrestored house, displays, bookstall, short slide lectures and refreshments
Free

Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 10-4pm 
Heritage Open Days
Displays, Gaskell presentations, memories corner, videos, drop-in childrens activities, bookstall, short slide lectures and refreshments
Free

Sunday 28 2 for 2.30 
Mary Barton’s Manchester
An illustrated lecture by John Archer, architect and architectural historian
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell is a tale set in a particular time and place – Manchester in the late 1840's when it was a stirring and, for some, a fearsome town.This talk will focus on the town’s streets and buildings which would have been so familiar to Mary and her family.

Prebooking essential phone Hilda Holmes (0161) 487 2593 
£7.50 Pay on the door

October

Sunday 5 12-4pm 
Open Day and bring and buy Plant Sale
Bookstall and refreshments. Plants may be ordered in advance.
All are good quality plants at reasonable prices.  Please come and buy, and do bring us plants from your own garden for sale on the day  Further details from Hilda Holmes (0161) 487 2593
Free 

Tuesday 21
Holman Hunt & the Pre-Raphaelite Vision 
Manchester City Art Gallery.
This tour is already fully booked, but is to be repeated on Tuesday 4 November (details below)

November

Sunday 2 12-4pm
Open Day
Tours of the unrestored house, displays, bookstall, short slide lectures and refreshments
Free

Tuesday 4
Holman Hunt & the Pre-Raphaelite Vision
Manchester Art Gallery, Mosley Street.
Curator-led tour for maximum of 25 people of this major exhibition 2 pm – 3 pm followed by Tea or Coffee and a scone in the Gallery’s Café £7 per person inclusive. Send your cheque in advance
(payable to Manchester Historic Buildings Trust) to
Pat Barnard, 36 Moss Lane, Bramhall, Stockport, SK7 1EH

Sunday 9 2.00 for 2.30pm
My Lady Ludlow
a dramatised reading
This costumed event presents Elizabeth Gaskell’s little-known short story (part of which was used in the recent televised Cranford). Delia Corrie will be our Lady Ludlow with Mary Wright, Vin Tuohy, Chris Burton and Joan Hill. Adaptation by Robin Allan.
£10 inc afternoon tea.
Prebooking essential phone Hilda Holmes (0161) 487 2593  Pay on the door

December

Sunday 7 12-2pm
Open Day
usual exhibitions, tours, bookstall (free)
Followed at 2.30pm by the Grace Darling Singers’ Christmas Music & Reading. Enjoy their performance and sing some favourite carols, followed by seasonal refreshments
Prebooking essential phone Hilda Holmes (0161) 487 2593 
£7.50 Pay on the door

2009

Advance Notice 
Saturday February 21
An Underrated Victorian, Sir James P. Kay-Shuttleworth.
Medicine, Cholera, the Poor Law, Education and Fiction.
A Day School at the Friend’s Meeting House, Mount Street, Manchester
Cost £20 including tea and coffee. Lunches available locally.
To book ring Hilda Holmes (0161) 487 2593 
8 Peter Street, Hazel Grove, Stockport, SK7 4BQ
Cheques payable to Manchester Historic Buildings Trust

For information about the programme please click here

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