A TRIP to The Whitaker – Rossendale Museum and Art Gallery in Rawtenstall – inspired Year 9 students to turn their hand to dark Gothic writing.
As part of their English course work, 28 students from Year 9 at Haslingden High School were invited to visit the museum so they could find their own inspiration to creatively write.
They had a frosty walk around the park grounds before exploring inside when they could photograph and learn more about the exhibits and immerse themselves in the surroundings.
Seamus Wall, 13, said: “We are learning about Gothic genre in English and we had the opportunity to write down what we had seen in the museum and grounds.
“We then focused on that information to provide us with prompts which then inspired our creative writing.
“I wrote a story and used the swords I had seen in the museum as my inspiration.”
Hannah Dickinson, 13, said: “I found a stimulus in the Curiosities room where there is a picture of a girl from the Regency era and I decided to base my poem on her having lived in a mansion.”
In Hannah’s poem the girl had died when a tree fell on her. There was a picture of her still in the house and it came to life and she became a ghost.