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Well here we are once again. The Clayton Hall Summer Fair, or should that be Fayre? Anyway, Wednesday 11th August is the day that Clayton Hall flings wide its doors to the public once again. However, this time it includes a number of different things. I understand that they’ve had posh new toilets installed, including [...]

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”

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 [...]

Clayton Hall’s Christmas event starts at one pm today. Father Christmas will be stationed in the hall and giving out presents. And if anything like last time arriving resplendent with his horse and cart and attendant elves. I’ve been assured that there will be crafts aplenty and of course the ever present and welcome cafe [...]

The Friends of Clayton Park held a “Fun Day” for kids at Clayton Park and Clayton Hall. And the weather was lovely and sunny. Maybe that’s why they got less people than they did last year. Perhaps everyone had the urge, lemming-like, to leap into their cars and rush for the seaside, or Blackpool. Whatever [...]

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 [...]