Friends of Gawthorpe

Newsletter – February 2023

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The Hall will reopen on Wed 29 March

2023 Programme - so far

Tuesday

21^st March

At 2pm

The Annual General Meeting

will be held in Padiham Town Hall – the Community Room

We invite you to join us on

Tuesday 21 March at 2pm

After the main meeting Rachel Pollitt de Duran will give a short talk about the research that has been undertaken about Gawthorpe Hall, including the Shuttleworth Accounts (1581 – 1621) kept at the Lancashire Archive in Preston. The Archives and Gawthorpe Hall (LCC Museum Service) had successfully applied for grant funding to conserve the archives and a contribution from the Friends was additional to that.

Refreshments Raffle

Note: Work is being undertaken in Padiham Town Hall, so parking is very limited – disabled parking only. Members can park in the car park at Tesco or Boyes across the road.

Subscriptions are due for the coming year and can be renewed at the meeting - still £10 per year

Tickets for the 50^th Anniversary Event

(see below) will also be on sale at a cost of £3

Tuesday 16^th May

At 2pm

Tickets £3

Advanced Notice of the

Friends of Gawthorpe 50th Anniversary Event

To be held at Gawthorpe Hall in the Old Nursery (top floor)

‘Miss Rachel’ will be there to talk about her life in the Hall

There will be photographs from the last 50 years of the Friends

Refreshments - birthday cake, tea and coffee

The long Gallery and some other upper rooms will also be open

This is a ticket only event, for members – numbers are limited

Gawthorpe Textiles News

Gawthorpe Textiles Collection, Gawthorpe Hall, Padiham, Lancashire, BB12 8UA
Tel. 01282 773 963. www.gawthorpetextiles.org.uk

Staffing changes at GTC

Rachel Terry former curator of the collection joined the team in December as project funded collections officer on our new major Heritage Fund project to review and prepare the collection for relocation and is now hard at work

Linda Drury has just joined the team as the new director. She was a Trustee of the Collection, but has now resigned from there to take up her new post. She has extensive experience of working with national charities at a senior level. Linda has happy memories of Gawthorpe Hall having studied for her City and Guild here years ago.

If you are interested in finding out Ways you can support the Textiles Collection please visit our website: https://www.gawthorpetextiles.org.uk/support-us

www.gawthorpetextiles.org.uk - What’s On - Events & Workshops https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/gawthorpe-textiles-collection-3288050358#_

The Hall will reopen on Wed 29 March

Opening hours - Wed to Sunday 12pm to 5pm.

Tree Planting

On Wednesday 1^st February Lord Shuttleworth planted an oak tree in front of the Hall, on behalf of Lancashire County Council, to commemorate the life of Queen Elizabeth II. He make a short speech saying how honoured he was to be invited to his former home to plant the tree in remembrance of the Queen. He spoke of the times they met and how happy she was to remember these occasions. To plant the tree, Lord Shuttleworth used the spade previously used by Queen Mary when she did a similar planting on a visit to Gawthorpe in 1911 with King George V.

Mayors from around Lancashire, members of the Friends and LCC staff attended on a rather wet and windy morning.