Top Withens, the reputed inspiration for Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, is the focus of a new exhibition at Haworth’s Parsonage Museum. Ways to the Stonehouse uses photographs and drawings to document the gradual deterioration of the former farmhouse. It includes a sketch by poet Sylvia Plath, who visited Top Withens with her husband, fellow poet Ted Hughes, in 1956. The exhibition has been created by photographer and filmmaker Simon Warner, whose own pictures are also featured.And there is photographic work produced by two community groups from Keighley while on a series of moorland walks.A Bronte Parsonage spokesman said the exhibition was part of the Haworth museum’s contemporary arts programme. And there is photographic work produced by two community groups from Keighley while on a series of moorland walks. A Bronte Parsonage spokesman said the exhibition was part of the Haworth museum’s contemporary arts programme. Keighley news

' Haworth Through The Lens of History' - DVD

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Discovered your website and thought both yourself and your readers may be interested in the following two items on sale at the The Parsonage - 

'Eternally Free' - CD of Bronte poems / works set to newly composed music.

' Haworth Through The Lens of History' - DVD explores the literary, social and industrial history of the area, through photographs old and new. Beautifully shot it's a must for any Bronte fan, or lover of social history.

 For me this is new information. Thank you for sending this. I tried to find some more information. But I could only find a Linkedin profile from the Writer/ Presenter  of the DVD,  Geraldine Bell. 

Haworth Through The Lens of History

Bay Video Productions

2012 – 2012

On this day in 1848

One of the largest property sales in Haworth's history took place at the Devonshire Arms Inn, Keighley. Bridgehouse mills, Woodlands mansion house, half a dozen farms and about 150 acres of land in the Bridgehouse valley were sold following the failure of James Greenwood's business. haworth-village

The Greenwoods of Bridgehouse, the oldest mill in Haworth, were the foremost manufacturing family in the village until the mill’s failure in 1848, when they were superseded by the Merralls. The older generation consisted of James Greenwood (1763–1824) and his wife Martha (1766–1833). Even before his father’s death the middle son of the family, Joseph, had taken over another mill owned by the Greenwoods, Springhead (see next entry). That left the eldest and youngest sons John (1784–1833) and James Jr (1793–1857) operating Bridgehouse mill, James continuing on his own after John’s death. James Jr built himself a substantial residence, Woodlands in Stubbing Lane. This branch of the family were Particular Baptists, worshiping at the Hall Green Chapel, and they were prominent in the rows in the late 1830s over the obligation on Nonconformists to pay Church rates. The Brontë children seem to have visited the older generation of Greenwoods, first with their mother, then with their aunt. There was a story in the Greenwood family of Charlotte being rebuked by Martha Greenwood for cheekiness to her aunt, and being told not to come visiting again until she had apologized to her. Relations with the younger generation do not seem to have been close, perhaps because the Brontës took the side of the Springhead branch of what seems to have been a divided family. blackwellreference

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Wuthering Heights (2011) - Official Trailer

Anne

I received this nice reaction from Anne. 
She is an artist and keeps an interesting weblog.
I post it here because her reaction is interesting and I love when people share with me their love of the Bronte Sisters!


"" I love the story of Charlotte's and Mr. Nicholls courtship. It's good to see this fine man finally get his due in these last years. 

It's no small thing to have won the hand of a Brontë, make her very happy and then protect her legacy for 50 years. Mr. Nicholls created the first Brontë museum in his home after leaving Haworth.

I also love reading about the 3 times Mr. Nicholls is so overwhelmed by his love for Charlotte, he simply breaks down.
Of course when he purposed,then the last church service, at Whitsum, ( when the congregation saw his struggle and cried )and when he left the school deeds at the parsonage before leaving Haworth, believing he would not see CB again. As we know, she came out and found him sobbing at the gate. 

Nicholls was too in love to give up just because those at the parsonage told him to. He persisted and won his prize

It must of been amazing for Charlotte to see in another a love that was so like the love she felt for Constantin Heger. To relive that huge event in her life, but from another perspective entirely.... this time she walked in Heger's shoes. 

This had to help Nicholls's cause. Because Charlotte knew so well the pain of unanswered letters, she could not afflict it on another forever...and indeed that was how Arthur started to win her, when she finally answered his letters. 
Few people were as keen an obverser of human nature than Charlotte Bronte. So it says a great deal about Arthur that the more she got to know him, the better she liked him, until esteem turned to love.

Her awful loneliness now that the London years were winding down and also the pressing need to somehow replace her father's work while he retained his position also helped Nicolls's cause as he was the answer. But how lovely real happiness came to Charlotte as well. 

Charlotte's need for such happiness was such, that if even she knew what was ahead, I can't say she would not have gone forward with the marriage anyway.

We know Nicholls never fully recovered from her loss and his grief remained raw. And I think he too would have said that the few months of his happiness with Charlotte as his wife was worth the subsequent 50 years of grief. This is a great love story and deserves its place in Brontë history""

Haworth History Pictures

Haworth History Pictures

Breathing life into the birthplace

Now a group of concerned individuals have got together and formed the Bronte Birthplace Trust (2012) to try to retrieve the house and restore it to its former glory when, in the ownership of the writer Barbara Whitehead, it was a museum and a tourist attraction. In one year people from 17 different countries visited the house.
“If we can get the house up and running it could have a positive effect on the rest of Market Street. We could start a Bronte trail through Thornton from the house, going on to the Bell Chapel and the church.

Read all: Breathing life into the birthplace

the Black Bull.

 I, myself, don't believe in ghosts 

For me this video is interesting 

because I can look inside

 the Black Bull

There are more video's on You tube about this subject
so, if you are interested, you can look on You tube

Welcome to ‘The Old Bell Chapel Action Group’ Homepage

Church Thornton

This year we are celebrating 400 years of St. James Church in Thornton. In the grounds (and graveyard) opposite the modern day St. James Church on Thornton Road in Thornton, you will discover the remains of a building with interesting architecture and a very interesting history.

Before 1612 the building was known as ‘Saint Leonards’.  For those who enjoy their historical facts, this was at the time when King James was on the throne and a year earlier, in 1611, the King James bible was first published.

After this date the name changed to ‘Saint James’.  No one knows the reason for the name change.  All we do know, is that a group of local people, including Precilla Bannister and the local freemasons, with the Lord of the Manor, rebuilt the existing chapel and changed the name to St James.  

Bancrofts from Yorkshire

In more recent times we have come to affectionately know the building as ‘Bell Chapel’ or ‘Brontë Bell Chapel’.  ‘Brontë Bell Chapel’ is a reference to one of the most recognised times in the Chapel’s history. The Brontë’s were the most famous people baptised in the chapel and Patrick Brontë preached there from 1815 -1820. Thornton village is also the birthplace of the these famous literary figures. brontebellchapel

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