Blog (2019) - Visit Lancashire

Food, arts and music festival launches in Blackpool. Featuring one night of Queen. Celebrity  chefs and a spectacular finale event featuring over 800 local performers, live band West End stars.

One of the UK’s best-loved pop bands is heading to Blackpool for a dazzling Blackpool Illuminations Switch-On concert.

To say thank you to local emergency services and NHS staff in Lancashire, Highest Point Festival is giving away 1000 tickets to this year’s event, with both Friday 17th and Saturday 18th May tickets up for the taking.  

It’s here, the bank holiday weekend! Here in Lancashire there’s so many fab events and things to do across the county throughout the weekend.

Custard Cream Cushions! The Maker’s Market returns to The National Festival of Making. Sat 15 – Sun 16 June 2019. King George’s Hall, Blackburn, Lancashire.

To celebrate National Superhero Day 2019, Blackpool Pleasure Beach is honouring the real-life superheroes that make a difference every single day. 

World Record holder, Mark Beaumont rides into The Dukes this May to relive how he cycled around the world in fewer than 80 days.

The staff at Lancashire’s award winning visitor attraction Leighton Hall don’t have to take off the dust sheets to welcome this season’s visitors from 1st May.  Instead, they just clear away the tea things and pop a rogue set of wellingtons aside to prevent them being tripped over.

Lancaster based professional photographer Nick Dagger was on hand to capture the scene photography for the upcoming CBeebies production of Puss in Boots. 

A special programme of events is being held at Clitheroe Castle to celebrate St George's Day.