Blog (August 2018) - Visit Lancashire

A feast of culture, inspiration, art, food and fashion, the much loved Vintage by the Sea returns  to Morecambe. Wayne Hemingway MBE and Gerardine Hemingway MBE are bringing the national sensation back to the promenade for a sixth year, with a distinctly local flavour...

With less than a week to go, there’s still plenty of time to illuminate your bikes and clothing ready for this year’s Let’s Ride the Lights in collaboration with HSBC and British Cycling.

It’s here, August bank holiday weekend is here. Keep calm and have lots of fun.

Pyrotechnic teams from all over the world will go head-to-head in the annual fireworks championships in Blackpool this September.

WHET your appetite in South Ribble this Saturday with the return of the Taste of Leyland food festival! Now in its fourth year, the festival starts at 10am in Balfour Court next to Leyland Market and runs until 4pm.

Keepers at Blackpool Zoo have got another feather in their collective caps after gaining official recognition from the Avicultural Society for their outstanding achievements in breeding Eastern white pelicans.

Here’s a few of the fantastic things going on this weekend in Lancashire.

Blackpool is gearing up for a spectacular finale to a summer of music with up to 40,000 people expected on Friday 31st August and Saturday 1st September for the annual Illuminations Switch-On concert followed by the final UK tour performance by global pop icon Britney Spears.

Get up close and personal with nature and pop along to the Binocular and Telescope Open Weekend at RSPB Leighton Moss in Silverdale on 25 and 26 August.

Lytham is busy preparing for its ninth annual Lytham 1940s Wartime Weekend, taking place on Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th August.