Gawthorpe Hall

Gill's sister and her husband have Sunday & Monday as their days off.  We went with them to Gawthorpe Hall today.  Built in the early 1600s around an earlier Pele Tower, there was significant restoration and 'modernisation in the 1840s.   The great hall still has the original screen and minstrels gallery, although the modernisation involved lowering the ceiling so the gallery would not be suitable for any energetic leaping about now.

Upstairs there is a display of Rachel Kay Shuttleworth's collection of fabric based arts.  She was one of the last inhabitants of the house and did a lot to preserve and promote needle crafts, both as a skill and as a positive thing for social and economic development.

Shuttleworth was the family name of the builders of the Pele tower and was adopted in the 1840s by James Kay who married the daughter of the family and so inherited the house and estate. Well worth a visit.

Sharper seen in large

I won't dwell on realising I had left the memory card from my camera in the laptop and had to borrow Gill's.  I had everything with me,  lenses, batteries etc, just not a spare card!