Manchester Blog

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 [...]

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 [...]

I fell in love with Manchester when I came for my University admissions interview. It had been exciting to travel up by train from the farthest reaches of East Anglia, well Peterborough anyway. I’d heard all the stories about how Manchester had a permanent black cloud tethered to it by a large and grime-ridden piece [...]