Macclesfield's silk museums open up their doors to the public for free this Saturday (September 11).

To coincide with National Heritage Day, the Heritage Centre, Paradise Mill, Park Lane Galleries and West Park Museum will be showing off their wonders.

Attractions include 'strict' lessons in the Victorian School room in the old Sunday School including slate writing, reciting the alphabet and copperplate writing using dip pens.

Organisers also promise to 'punish' someone with the cane and use the dunce's hat. Classes begin at 10.30 am, 11.15 am, and noon.

Meanwhile, in the West Park Museum, ceramic Egyptian dolls found in pharoahs’ tombs known as Shabtis will be on display. They were brought to Macclesfield by collector Marianne Brocklehurst more than a century ago.