Manchester Blog

The White Room in Manchester has launched a free course aimed at helping 18-24 year olds start in the media sector by designing original iPhone applications.
The course is backed by Manchester Council, The Cornerhouse and Manchester Metropolitan University. And it will also teach a range of business skills
Over $3bn worth of mobile phone [...]

Well, it’s a done deal. Heaton Park will have a new sports development.
Of the 3 councillors I contacted 1 replied immediately and one after they’d attended the planning meeting.
As to what they said…
Both councillors made the point that the development was part of the Restoration Masterplan for Heaton Park agreed by English Heritage [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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

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