An exhibition of historic photographs of Haworth will help publicise a planned facelift for the village's old school room.
The restoration project aims to highlight the building's close links with the Brontë family and safeguard its future. The schoolroom, in Church Street, was built in the mid-1800s by the Rev Patrick Brontë.
His four famous children all worked in the building, and Charlotte Brontë and Arthur Bell Nicholls held their wedding feast there. The Brontë Society, which runs the museum, and the next-door parish church have united to form the partnership Brontë Spirit.
They last year gained a grant of £43,300 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to plan the restoration project.
The organisations then hope to find the estimated £1 million needed to refurbish the old school room. The first event is an exhibition of photographs of Haworth and district ranging from the reign of Queen Victoria to the 1970s.
The exhibition will be officially launched today in the old school room, then open to the public at 2pm tomorrow.
The opening will be rung in by the bell ringers of St Michael's and All Saints Parish Church, led by Captain of the Bells Simon Burnett. Admission to the exhibition is free and the opening hours will normally be 1 to 4pm seven days a week until September 2008.
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