Blog (2019) - Visit Lancashire

Featuring the classic songs ‘And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going’, ‘Listen’ and ‘One Night Only’, this sensational, multi-award winning new production of Dreamgirls had its critically acclaimed West End Premiere in December 2016 at London’s Savoy Theatre, 35 years on from opening on Broadway.

10,000 people attended the Leyland Christmas Festival, which saw practically the entire stretch of Hough Lane taken over by stallholders and small businesses selling street food, drinks, arts, crafts, gifts and much more.

The Forest of Bowland Moorland Group (FoBMG) has been stepping up efforts to showcase the sustainability of wild game meat to celebrate Great British Game Week, which is taking place across the country until December 1st. 

Have a fun-filled weekend of shopping at The Harris Christmas Fair. Get your festive preparations off to a flying start with a range of Lancashire-based artists and makers and live festive musical entertainment.

To celebrate Lancashire Day, Wednesday 27 November, Visit Lancashire are giving one lucky winner the chance to win their biggest Lancashire prize yet, from overnight stays, afternoon tea and a £100 to spend on Lancashire Cheese! 

Lancashire is thriving with Christmas Markets, Fairs, Light switch ons, Grottos and much more! So get stuck into the festive spirit and find out what’s on this weekend…

A series of thought-provoking art commissions will be unveiled as part of an Eden Project programme of public art in Morecambe.

Even more people can go to the ball with Cinderella at The Dukes, thanks to a new initiative by the Lancaster theatre.

Visit The Blackpool Tower this Christmas for thrills, spills and plenty of goodwill.  The iconic Lancashire landmark is 125 years of entertaining the public this year and there’s plenty to do over the festive period. 

Santa has confirmed that he will be flying in from the North Pole to check on his herd of reindeer at Blackpool Zoo on selected dates in November and December!

His Head Keeper Elf is now busy preparing the area next to the reindeer paddock for his imminent arrival and bookings are being taken for children to meet the man himself.