Beatrix Potter museum launches appeal for relatives to come forward for 120th anniversary.
Published 120 years ago, the Tailor of Gloucester story was based on a real incident involving a tailor commissioned to make a suit for the new mayor of the city.
"It is one of the most famous stories about the city. But, perhaps the original person doesn't have the profile that he should do.It is hoped any relatives who are found will attend a special evensong service at Gloucester Cathedral on Wednesday, 11 October at 17:30 BST, and the clock is now ticking for the museum to trace the tailor's family in time.
But, having been closed in 2005, it was reopened as a museum in 2007, after a group of local people banded together to buy the building. Her family spent many summers in Scotland and the Lake District, where she developed a love for landscapes, animals and the natural world.These elements of her childhood would go on to become the major motifs in her more than 60 published works, especially her 23 children's stories, which have sold more than 250 million copies worldwide.
In 1894, Potter stayed with her cousin, Caroline Hutton, at Harescombe Grange. It was on this trip that she heard about the legend of John Prichard.
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