Manchester Blog

I went to see Dad’s Army, The Lost Episodes, at the Lowry Theatre in Salford yesterday and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. A few of the cast look similar to the original BBC TV characters, for example Pike and Corporal Jones. In all there are 4 episodes presented, using scripts adapted from the original TV scripts. [...]

Business Powerpack discusses the way advertising is going and emphasises niche and mass market advertising differences. And then presents their new business TV channel. It’s down on the right hand column and is in partership with Your Business Channel. So go check it out and leave a comment if you like it. LiveJournal tags: business [...]

For the last few years the Friends of Clayton Park, in Clayton, have run a Christmas event at Clayton Hall. Father Christmas has arrived in his sleigh (or horse and cart) and dispensed presents from his temporary location in the front room of Clayton Hall. Obviously attended to by many elves and last year 3 [...]

I went to a little presentation ceremony today. Which I’ll talk more about when I get the pictures I’ve been promised from it. The presentation was in Stockport so, of course, I got onto the M60 noticing that the matrix signs said “Gritting in Progress.” I dropped the children off at their school just off [...]

Dr. Who, K9, Rose Tyler, Martha, The Daleks… Names that are very familiar to anyone who’s current with the latest Dr. Who series with David Tennant. And if you want to go and see them all they’re on display at The Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester. Well, in reality the human are only [...]