A parsonage in Howarth a Brontë sister and the Salutation in Chorlton on Medlock

Now I am back with the Brontë sisters, after all you can wait for a Brontë story all week and then two turn up at the same time.*

Well I say the same time in this case just a few days apart.

The sisters lived in Haworth and it was there that we went on Saturday taking full advantage of the May sunshine and a wish to escape the city.

And I was pleasantly surprised.  The tourist bit was not overdone, the museum where they had lived was fascinating and the views across the valley were stunning.

Then as you do I remembered that one of the Brontë women had spent some time in Manchester and moreover there was a plaque to her beside that wonderful old pub the Salutation.*

I doubt that she would have visited the pub which opened its doors not long after the Brontë family took up residence at the Parsonage in Haworth but it is a good example of just how messy history can be and how even when you don’t go looking for connections in the past they have a habit of bouncing up and surprising you.

And with that firmly at the front of the story it leaves me only to make the connection between the painting of the Parsonage at Haworth and the Salutation in Chorlton on Medlock which is that both were painted by Peter Topping

In the meantime other paintings by Peter can be seen at the exhibition, CHORLTON-CUM-HARDY... A MOMENT IN TIME EXHIBITION. The Exhibition starts April 22nd till May 17th 2014 at Arison Gallery, 512 Wilbraham Road, Chorlton, M21 9AW. Telephone: 0161 881 6734, email: arison.gallery@ntlworld.com web: www.gladtobe.in

Paintings; The Parsonage at Haworth & The Salutation in Chorlton0n Medlock,© 2014 Peter Topping, Paintings from Pictures,

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*On a May Day with the Brontë sisters, a parsonage and lots of shops, http://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Bront%C3%AB%20sisters

**The Salutation gives up some of its secrets,  http://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/the-salutation-gives-up-some-of-its.html