The Brontë Parsonage Museum, at Haworth, is celebrating its 80th anniversary with a free open day for residents.

Anyone with a BD21 or BD22 postcode will be admitted free to the literary shrine on Monday, on presenting proof of residence.

And visitors aged 80 and over are being offered free admission throughout the month.

At the open day, artist Lesley Martin will be working with visitors to create a giant artwork on the parsonage front lawn, using natural materials. People can take along their own flowers and leaves found on walks in the area and learn about the plants growing around the parsonage.

The event will launch a series of special arts activities at the museum throughout the month.

Photographer Kate Potter will be artist in residence on Tuesday, August 12, as part of a project photographing 21st-century visitors - as Charlotte, Emily or Anne Brontë - using traditional techniques.

On August 22, chainsaw artist Dominic Clare will create a sculpture from a tree felled in the parsonage garden earlier this year. It is believed the tree was planted by Charlotte Brontë as part of her wedding celebrations.

And puppetry theatre company Frolicked will be at the museum on August 27 and 28, performing a specially commissioned piece based on the Brontës.

The activities, part of the parsonage's contemporary arts programme, are free on admission to the museum.

Haworth Parsonage was acquired by the Brontë Society in 1927 and opened to the public on August 4, 1928. Thousands of visitors arrived in Haworth to witness the opening of the museum and to see the place where the Brontë family lived and wrote their famous books.