One hundred year old notebooks have inspired a drama  project for children which will  be launched on Saturday at a Chester museum.

The Cheshire Military Museum,  Grosvenor Museum and Minerva  Arts are working in partnership on  Mabel’s War, a 10 week project that  will create a brand new piece of  drama.

The project is based on the 100-year- old notebooks of Mabel, a Cheshire nurse who collected stories, poems, letters and drawings from the soldiers she cared for in the First World  War.

One of five children Mabel Harriet  Earp was born in October 1879 in  Runcorn.

The daughter of William Richard  Earp, a chemical manufacturer and  Emma (nee Armstrong), Mabel  worked as a volunteer nurse during  the First World War at Oaklands  Military hospital (Preston Brook)  and Frodsham Auxiliary Hospital  (which was located on the site of the  skating rink, close to where the Frodsham War Memorial now stands).

Mabel married George Bertram  Leach on February 7th 1918. George  was a civil engineer who had served  with the Royal Engineers during the  war until his medical discharge as a  result of wounds in July 1917.

Mabel died on December 24, 1947.

On Saturday, November 23 from  10am-12, there will be a free taster  drama workshop for seven-11-year-olds at Cheshire Military  Museum led by Minerva Arts artistic  director Steph Brocken.

Steph said: “Minerva Arts are  really excited to have the chance to  work on the Mabel's War project and  can't wait to get started. Join us at the  taster workshop and find out how  you can be part of this unique performance inspired by Nurse Mabel’s  note books.”

You do not need to book for the  workshop, just turn up Cheshire Military Museum, The Castle, at 10am.

Mabel’s War is part of the  Cheshire’s Great War Stories, a project commemorating the centenary  of the Great War.