Visitors to Gawthorpe Hall will be in for a treat when they visit the 16th Century hall following the relaunch of its textiles collection.

Gawthorpe Hall was given to the National Trust in the 1970s and became a college for teaching textile techniques for several years before it was opened as the historic house that we see today.

A historic hall in Lancashire is set to reopen to the public after being closed for a year for major restoration work.

The walled garden at Gawthorpe Hall, Padiham, will be open throughout the year after a team of National Trust rangers and volunteers worked to bring it back to life.

Visitors will discover what it was like to live and bring up a family at the Hall in the Victorian period with a special talk by Lady Blanche in the Long Gallery.

May Queen, Miss Leah Wilby, with her maids of honour and preceded by the Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Band, led a mile-long procession of fancy dress and colourful decorated floats along a 4 ...

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