Name: Miss Potter's Tailor's Tale
Start: 2025-11-22T14:30:00+00:00
Location: Lansdown Hall & Gallery

Brandywine@Lansdown
Miss Potter's Tailors Tale
By Christopher Denys
Saturday 22nd November 2025
2.30pm – 3.30pm (Doors 2pm)
Lansdown Hall, Stroud
Tickets: £8.50 – https://www.trybooking.com/uk/FLOT
Beatrix Potter – now Mrs William Heelis and a dedicated hill farmer in the Lake District – takes a break from lambing on a snowy night during the Great War to share with us her candid recollections of:
– How, having spent her youth as unpaid housekeeper for her parents, she suddenly became the most successful children’s author and illustrator of all time
– How her heart was broken when she lost the man she loved
– How she discovered the true identity of those fairies who helped the Tailor of Gloucester
– How she has finally found happiness and contentment among the hills and dales with the local solicitor, Appleby Billy.
– How, after nineteen books, but now with Zeppelin bombers overhead, she will not have a new one finished for the Christmas of 1916
– How the War Office keeps trying to requisition her horse. ‘And how can you run a farm without a horse, I should like to know?!’
But, reveling in the joy she finds in her hard-working life and with her habitual wit and good humour, she delights in telling us the true tales of her famous characters who continue to delight the world.