Lancashire Bloggin'

Following the incredible success of 2019’s inaugural ‘Manford’s Comedy Festival’, Blackpool Winter Gardens and Manford’s Comedy Club have announced the festival will return to the home of British comedy in May 2020 with an all-star line-up.

Come along to a dementia friendly screening of The Shop Around the Corner (U) at The Dukes Cinema in Lancaster this December.

As the festivities begin, there is plenty of fun things to do in the county to get you and your family into the spirit.

Baz Luhrmann’s smash hit musical Strictly Ballroom is set to sweep audiences in Blackpool off their feet once more appearing at the Winter Gardens 24/05/2021 – 29/05/2021.

This Sat 7 and Sun 8 December Gawthorpe Hall will open for its annual Victorian Christmas weekend from 10.30am – 3.30pm
The fun-filled festive event sees this magnificent building decked with real Christmas trees, holly and seasonal festivities to start your Christmas off in style.

For two weeks only, anyone visiting the award-winning Blackpool Tower Dungeon will face the usual round of special effects, scenes and screams, alongside the new scary snack, available at the decadent – but dodgy – Red Lion pub. 

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.