Miss Matty

Miss Matty has been used throughout our site to symbolise tradition and value for money. She was a well loved fictional character in the novel Cranford written by the famous Victorian authoress Elizabeth Gaskell who lived in Knutsford at the beginning of the 1800s.

Traditional hardware shops are disappearing and along with them many of the every day items that have been part of households for decades. We have used the Miss Matty character as a guide pointing out not only particular items but also to give added interest with her handy ideas for particular recipes etc.