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Heaton park is still under threat as the Manchester Town Hall planning committee meet to rubber stamp the recommendation by the town planners to allow the go ahead of a sports complex at Heaton Park. This is the continuing struggle of the council in what seems to be a concerted effort to use the green [...]

Speed cameras for a road that sees very little traffic seems very strange. For some months we’ve been driving up Victoria avenue, from the Heaton Park end, and seen the huge poles that look like fat lamp posts. Then overnight they were transformed into camera gantries with an arm extended over the road way with [...]

This last week has been great fun. I’ve had the privilege of building a snowman with my children and having snowball fights with them. Later in the week my eldest took my two youngest sledging. And they came back cold, damp and filled with glee. And even the fact that I’ve had to clear my [...]

Father Christmas made his grand entrance on a horse and cart waving to all and sundry at Clayton Hall last Saturday. So Christmas has arrived! My children were roped in to assist Santa Claus dole out presents to excited children. And part of the package (at an astoundingly low price) was to have your photo [...]

New Museum at Clayton Hall Victorian Museum is a new “Thing To Do In Manchester”

Manchester fun happens thick and fast at this autumnal time of the year. First we had the Halloween Howler over at Clayton Vale. Lots and lots of people (we believe well over 2,000) and they seemed to be having a great time. Then over here we had the Heaton Park fireworks last night. Yet again [...]

Clayton Hall museum looks like a great new school curriculum resource for the Victorian period. It’s about to be opened for exactly that purpose. Volunteers with help from Manchester Leisure have been decorating and finding appropriate furniture to show how the hall might have looked during Victorian times. They’ve even had the kitchen range re-installed [...]

The Manchester Blog Awards steams into its 2009 competition. See more about the Manchester Blog Awards and make your nomination. Manchester seems to attract a fair few of the UK blogging community. Maybe it’s because we all stay inside because of the rain? Without doubt there are some great writers out in the Mancunion Blogosphere [...]

Today I was helping at the Clayton Hall summer event where I was given the task of looking after, and selling, a table full of books. The park is a nice little one set in front of the old Clayton Hall and both it and the Hall are surrounded by a moat. Although at the [...]

Find out how to object to further Heaton Park development of sports facilities