Manchester Blog

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 [...]

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This is aimed at those who’d love to live in houseboats, own their own liveaboard, maybe run their own boat charter or have their own sea-going fishing boat. This post is slightly unusual as a Manchester friend has asked me to see if you’re interested in his pride and joy, a 20 metre 14 berth [...]

Well we had a beautiful day on Thursday, 4th June. Friday was great until about 4pm and then the heavens opened.   Today? Well Saturday is looking gloomier.   Basically, today’s weather has been a lot more of the same. It’s chucking it down. I can see a couple of very bedraggled marshals standing at [...]

Situated where we are we can’t hear the Oasis gig at all, as the concert is on the Bury Old Road side of the park. Two of Kay’s cousins borrowed a small bit of our drive to park their car and went to the concert. Their verdict? Fantastic! Our verdict on the how everything seemed [...]

I live right outside Heaton Park where the Oasis concerts are being held. Looking around the area my advice would be to use the park and ride facilities at Prestwich and elsewhere or to come by tram, arriving either at Heaton Park or Bowker Vale tram stations. Otherwise it will be a complete nighmare for [...]

Heaton Park is still (probably) Europe’s biggest municipal park. I live near the main gates and obviously enjoy walks in the park with my children. Over the last few years there has been a lot of improvements carried out in the park. However, there also seems to be an attempt by the council to eat [...]

Yes folks, it’s that time of year again when thoughts turn to racing ducks. Once again Clayton Vale plays host to a fiercely contested duck race where the ducks are dropped off the bridge near the Clayton Vale visitors centre and sent down the river to be captured further along. The event is on tomorrow [...]

Well here we are once again, another hole in the road. Over the weekend a few bollards were artfully displayed along one of the lanes on Middleton Road leading away from Manchester and towards the M60. Today the bollards have arrived in force and it looks as though they’re opening another hole in the road [...]