Out and About Lancashire Local Issue 31

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There’s more to

Lancashire than hotpot!

Discover the diversity of Lancashire's food and drink on a visit to this scenic county and you won't be disappointed.

Dine on succulent seafood in

Morecambe Bay, purchase awardwinning sausages in Clitheroe's famous sausage shop and find local produce at farmers markets and farm

shops. Indulge in a gourmet feast of food and drink in Lancashire’s highly acclaimed restaurants, relax in cosy pubs.

What could be more appealing than a piping hot pot of tea accompanied by a slab of chocolate cake in a café or tea room?

You can always be confident in finding quality.

Food is now one of the nation's favourite pastimes and as the

Ribble Valley has some of the finest producers and restaurateurs in the country.

The recipe for traditional Lancashire cheese known as Creamy & Tasty is unique in Britain in that it blends the curds from different milkings which creates a cheese with depth of flavour, added complexity and a texture that gives an ideal melting consistency.

Crumbly Lancashire is the most recent addition to the family of Lancashire cheeses.

It was created in the 1960s as a lighter more acidic cheese and, unlike Creamy and Tasty, is made from the curds of one day's milking. Farmers Markets have grown in popularity over the past few years, and are noted for the quality of their fine locally produced stock, cheeses and meat products.

Lancashire's farm shops sell local produce which often has been grown, picked, reared or made on the farm where the farm shop is located.

Discover the delights of Lancashire's food at one of Lancashire's many exciting food festivals and events throughout the year. Coupled with visits to some of the most scenic countryside in the UK Lancashire has a fine feast to offer.

Dine in our out, relax and enjoy!

The very best of Wyre’s markets

in north west Lancashire.

Today’s markets are seeing something of a revival in fortunes. We are turning once more to our butchers, bakers and other more traditional

outlets keen to show our support for local businesses.

You can visit a market in Wyre six days a week (well Sunday is meant

to be a day of rest after all). From coastal Fleetwood market boasting over 250 stalls to Garstang’s historic market dating back to the early 1300’s

– Wyre really is a shopper’s paradise.

Fleetwood Market Fleetwood Market is a traditional market with over 150 indoor and outdoor stalls. The indoor stalls are housed in one of three heated halls. It is open Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday all year round.

Poulton Market The weekly street market is held every Monday in Poulton-le-Fylde’s historic Market Square (except Bank Holidays).

Garstang Market Garstang’s market dates back to the early 1300’s and the days of Edward

II. The traditional weekly outdoor market is held every Thursday Great Eccleston Market The market takes place every Wednesday and there’s a farmers market every third Wednesday of the month.

Welcome to Yorkshire

It’s been described as God’s Own Country, boasts seven great cities, three National Parks, miles of golden beaches and two UNESCO World Heritage sites.

The well coined phrase ‘whatever you want, we’ve got it’ is all too often used, but in Yorkshire’s case it is true.

A long weekend won’t be long enough to sample the huge array of food hailing from the county’s award-winning restaurants and eateries. Whether it’s locally sourced pub food or high end dining, Yorkshire has it covered.

Did you know the county has more Michelin starred restaurants than any other area outside London?

World-class attractions are visitor magnets and Yorkshire is home to several national museums. These include the National Media Museum, National Railway Museum, National Coal Mining Museum, Royal Armouries and Eureka! National Children's Museum - you’ll need a few repeat visits to enjoy them all.

Other great attractions include

The Deep in Hull, Sea Life Scarborough, Yorkshire Wildlife Park in Doncaster, Tropical World in Leeds, Lightwater Valley near Ripon

and Flamingo Land near Malton.

All are great for making memories and filling up the photo album.

Must see rolling green hills and

stunning vistas are all on offer. Make sure you see the Yorkshire Dales, The Wolds in East Yorkshire, the Pennines including Bronte Country, the Peak

District and the North York Moors.

If you like the sea, then see some of the UK’s best along Yorkshire’s stunning coast taking in gems like

Whitby, Staithes, Scarborough, Filey and Bridlington among many others.

For more information check out www.yorkshire.com

Yorkshire's Historic Past

Yorkshire - a county with a history unsurpassed in Britain For more than 2000 years, history has written a proud and fiercely independent story across the landscape, from the mighty castles of medieval England to the mills which mark the birth of the Industrial Revolution.

This was once the kingdom of the woad-painted warriors, the Brigantes, whose capital is now marked by the Roman town at Aldborough. The conquering Romans made their base at Eboracum which in its turn

became the Vikings' Jorvik and later, medieval York. The Middle Ages left their legacy standing in stone - a wealth of ancient abbeys and castles.

Seeking solitude in the wilderness, the monks gave glorious settings to their abbeys, among them Bolton, Jervaulx and Rievaulx Abbeys and incomparable Fountains Abbey, a World Heritage site. For centuries, "he who held the north held the kingdom", a stark truth which speaks from the stones of castles such as Skipton, Helmsley, Conisbrough, with its mighty Norman keep, Castle

Bolton, and tranquil Middleham in Wensleydale, once the power base of the infamous Richard III. More peaceful ages poured their wealth into lavish country homes, among them, Nostell Priory near Wakefield, palatial Harewood House near Leeds and the Baroque splendour of Castle Howard, near Malton, made famous by the television series "Brideshead Revisited". Excellent city museums include those in Leeds, Hull and the

Yorkshire Museum in York, with its superb Middleham jewel. Lively smaller museums include the awardwinning Hornsea Museum and Scarborough's distinctive Rotunda Museum, and museums with a special appeal such as Holmfirth Postcard Museum, Ripon's Prison and Police Museum and Wilberforce House in Hull, dedicated to the fight against slavery. More intimate but no less beautiful are the region's many

smaller historic homes. They reach back through time from Edwardian Lotherton Hall near Leeds to the Elizabethan warmth of Burton Agnes Hall on the Wolds and the medieval memories of Shibden Hall near Halifax, the West Yorkshire Folk Museum. Remember, too, Yorkshire's dynamic industrial museums capturing centuries of working pride in textiles, mining, fishing and steel. See how people lived and

worked at the Colne Valley Museum, Golcar, the Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet, Sheffield and the Museum of South Yorkshire Life, Doncaster.

Visit Worsbrough Mill Museum, Barnsley, Thwaite Mills and Armley Mills in Leeds, Bradford Industrial and Horses at Work Museum, the Calderdale Industrial Museum and the Hull Town Docks Museum - all harnessing the power of the past in a unique experience.

Grassington Festival 2017 – 16 June – 1 July

Now in its 37th year and focusing world to the village and provides on the central concept of Explore!, opportunities for audiences of all ages Grassington Festival welcomes the to push boundaries and be inspired by its fascinating programme of theatre, music, comedy, talks, art exhibitions, guided walks, literature and creative workshops. The 2017 Festival embraces experiences for families and young audiences across the fortnight with Sean Kempton's STUFF and Morgan and West's magic show. The idyllic setting of the Cavendish Pavilion Grounds provides the backdrop to Illyria’s performance of The Emperor’s New Clothes.

Live at the Festival Hall welcomes a fabulous line up of 5 brilliant comedians and the classical offering includes the Gala Concert

with Raphael Wallfisch and Ben Crick and the Skipton Building Society Camerata in Bolton Abbey Priory and an afternoon of Beethoven and Bartok from The Heath Quartet at Scargill House.

There is a varied and impressive selection of live music catering for all tastes at the Festival in the Field Marquee, kicking off with national icon, Jools Holland and his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra. The award winning jazz singer Clare Teal performs with her 17 piece Hollywood Orchestra led by Guy Barker to celebrate Ella Fitzgerald’s centenary year and The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain will perform with an amusing dose of deadpan British humour as well as foottapping music.

The singer/ songwriter, Newton Faulkner, will play with support from

Holy Moly & The Crackers, and the fortnight comes to a finale at The Last Night Party featuring Bananarama, with support from The Opera Comic and Back Chat Brass. For more information and to book tickets, please visit: www.grassingtonfestival.org.uk.

Chipping Steam Fair 2017,

Sat 27th, Sun 28th & Mon 29th.

Can it really be May again and time for another Chipping Steam Fair?!

What a year we had last year with the sun shining and everything running like clockwork, thanks to all the volunteers who spend all year preparing for our three day extravaganza. Someone compared the 2016 show to a well oiled machine... which is quite apt consider our theme.

It's well worth the hard work with

all proceeds going to local good causes and the event being enjoyed by tens of thousands of visitors who come back year after year to partake in this unique experience.

So this year, 2017, will be our 19th show and because we do it every year we learn and try to improve on every aspect of the previous one...from choosing unique acts for the arena entertainment, finding interesting catering providers to improving our information website www.chippingsteamfair.com and social media presence. For this May we've hundreds of exhibitors eagerly anticipating the opportunity

to show off their pride and joy. 1997 on the new website or follow us We'll have steam traction engines, on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. vintage tractors, classic cars and #chippingsteamfair motorcycles, pedal cycles, classic plant, commercial and military vehicles. Not to mention our regular attractions including live musical entertainment in the beer tent (until late Sat & Sun), the funfair, craft fair, food hall, arena entertainment, ride on children's train, puppet shows, donkey rides, demonstrations and the ever popular digger playpen. Read all about how the show started back in

Brass in the Park First

cycling

for all festival

We’ll be hosting an open air concert, as part of a series of brass band concerts across Burnley’s awardwinning parks.

The annual Brass in the Parks musical extravaganzas have already started will continue throughout June and

beginning of June and July. All concerts run between 2pm-4pm and admission is free of charge.

Stacksteads Band will be performing in Towneley Parkon Sunday, 11th June. “Brass in the Parks is really the sound of summer and what better

way to spend a Sunday afternoon than enjoying an open air concert in beautiful surroundings?”

The concerts have been organised by the council with help from the parks’ friends’ groups.

A gathering geared to bring cycling to everyone beckons in the heart of the Lakes with specially adapted wheels for riders with disabilities.

Showcasing the benefits of being mobile in the great outdoors, the Inclusive Cycling Festival is being staged at Brockhole, the Lake District Visitor Centre on the shores of Windermere, on Friday 12 May. Specially adapted cycles will cater for a wide range of abilities and people are being invited to roll up and have a go, while enjoying sensational scenery and beautiful grounds.

Local cycling and care organisations will have stands and displays.

There will also be plenty of outdoor entertainment and fun for the whole family.

The event is led by Cycling Projects, the charity behind nationally recognised programme, Wheels for All. By using specially adapted cycles, it provides quality, fun activities that are both physically and mentally stimulating for adults and children with disabilities and differing needs.

Lake District National Park’s chief executive, Richard Leafe, said: “We want to put the Lake District on the map for visitors of all abilities to come and enjoy our spectacular scenery. “We hope this event will be the catalyst for a longer-term project to develop more activities like this across the park.” People can turn up on their own, with families, or

groups and have a go, learn more about all-ability Lakes’ cycling opportunities and find out how they can help to support the initiative. Ian Tierney, director of Cycling Projects, explained: “We are delighted by the positive response we have received so far from local groups and charities, sponsors and vital stakeholders, such as the Lake District National Park Authority. “We know how much pleasure that having a go on an adapted bike can be, both for the

user and also their family and carers.

We are excited to work with our local partners to develop a really rewarding programme of cycling activities across Cumbria for both local people and visitors.” The Brockhole event runs from 10am to 3pm on Friday 12 May. Cycling Projects said it was very grateful to vital sponsorship from James Cropper, Kendal Cycling Club and Cumberland Building Society’s Kendal branch, which had made the event possible.

Photo shows how specially adapted bikes bring fun for all.

Council confirms

Windermere Ferry position In response to information circulating on social media, the council is issuing the following statement: "Cumbria County Council would like to make clear the proposed actions to improve customers’ experience while using the Windermere Ferry.

"Currently we are installing additional ticket machines on each side of Windermere to reduce the time it takes to obtain a ticket. A fixed ticket machine is also in operation on board the ferry to assist pedestrians to obtain tickets, reducing demand on the on shore ticket machines.

"All of these machines take cash or card (PIN or contactless) payments.

No cash purchases via our staff are possible.

"During summer/autumn 2017 we

will continue to improve the payment process with new purpose built machines which are user-friendly and quicker to obtain tickets from.

The existing ticket machines will be reused at other sites owned by

Cumbria County Council. In addition staff on board the ferry will have hand-held payment machines so ferry users can obtain a ticket while on board using card (PIN or contactless) payment, and without leaving their

vehicle. No cash payments to staff will be allowed.

"It is expected that the combination of these two proposals along with improved signage and information will ease the existing problems."

Ingrid Grayling –

Professional dog trainer

Ingrid Grayling is a renowned dog trainer, known nationally as well as throughout Cumbria, for her highly professional experience and extensive knowledge of working with every aspect of a dog.

With over 35 years of experience working with animals, Ingrid has built up a highly successful business in the heart of rural Cumbria, offering

expert training in all fields, and for all breeds of dogs.

Ingrid has always had a love for animals and prior to moving to Cumbria in 1995, she set up and ran a successful boarding kennel establishment in Lancashire, which is still thriving today. Ingrid says that the success behind her business, which has been established for over

22 years, lies in the unique and expert services she offers. Her training methods are very different to the traditional group training lessons often advertised, and see Ingrid offer her undivided attention as she trains on an exclusive 'one-to-one' basis.

All the training takes places in a natural and open environment with no other distractions, including dogs and people, where Ingrid trains the owner to train their dog. Ingrid's training methods are based on teaching the owner the skills, which work quickly and effectively, and after training the dog will have complete freedom but remain firmly under the owner's control. Dogs are totally relaxed, and understand exactly what is required of them for the rest of their life.

Ingrid's training methods have been highly commended by many different clients from all over the UK, due to her very simple and positive training methods.

Cool Iceland is hot stuff

with visiting golfers

Popular as a short-break destination, Iceland is now wowing overseas golfers.

There are 65 golf courses spread around the volcanic island – 16 offering 18 holes and two with 27 holes – and golf is second only to football as its most popular sport.

Foreign golfers are increasingly being attracted by its green fairways. Almost 4,000 visitors played golf in 2016, a big increase on 2015, and while half of them played only one round 27% played five or more rounds.

Despite its proximity to the Arctic Circle, Iceland’s golf season lasts six months on average, and seven months in the south. Some courses near the coast can be played most of the year and there was even a golf tournament in northern city Akureyri, the world’s most northerly 18-hole golf course, in the middle of December!

Golf Iceland chairman Magnus Oddsson said: “We have over 16,000 members in the Icelandic Golf Union, which is about 5% of Iceland’s total population, but according to surveys about 30,000 Icelanders say they play golf.

“But we have so many courses, all of them open to public and during the midsummer months open 24 hours!

Only 330,000 people live in Iceland and we are number one in Europe regarding courses per capita, so we have a lot of available tee times for visitors.”

Golf Iceland was established in 2008 when the country’s courses and tourism sector joined forces to

create an organisation to promote and market its golf internationally.

“IAGTO helped us with the first steps and made a marketing plan for us,” said Oddsson. “The number of foreign golfers visiting our courses has increased over those years, but it took some time to get the messages out, that golfers can play in nature on 65 courses around the island – in fact to make people believe that there are good golf courses in Iceland!

“We have had a very good increase and in 2016 we were up about 50% compared with 2015. Almost 4,000 visitors played golf in 2016 and over 10,000 rounds were sold to foreign golfers last summer.”

IAGTO Chief Executive Peter Walton said: “Very much like the destination itself, Icelandic golf is often spectacular! There are a number of high quality courses that will appeal to avid golfers and trophy hunters, as

well as golfers who love to experience unique and interesting environments with some tremendous views. We nicknamed the excellent Kellir Golf Course near Reykjavik ‘Lava-Links’ because the front nine negotiates its way through lava fields, transforming to a true links experience on the back nine. The Grafarholt and Oddur golf courses are also close to Reykjavik and are well worth playing for those visiting the capital.”

Walton added: “Playing golf among volcanoes and even within ancient volcanic craters, such as on Heimaey in the Westman Islands, or within sight of angry towering geysers is not an every-day occurrence, which is why they live long in the memory.

Interestingly, most courses in Iceland offer a special rate for couples which is significantly less that the cost of two green fees.” For more information, visit www.golficeland.org

Ava Travell produced it's First Holiday Brochure in March 2016, which has been a huge success.

Director Miles Cassam, together with Alan Clenshaw and Aubrey Glasson (who had all previously worked for John Fishwick & Sons, Leyland, Bus Service & Holiday Tour Operator which finished trading after over a 100 years in October 2015) went into partnership with Paul Tattersall and the AVA Group which includes Avacab Taxis, Leyland Taxis, Avacoach and Avabus. We at AVA Travel operate out of town centre premises at 41 Hough Lane, Leyland, together with the Ava Group we are well on our way to being well established in the town. Miles Cassam's vision of a hassle fee Door to Door Service within the North West Region is part and parcel of AVA Travel's excellent Customer Service Policy AVA Travel offer modern, spacious Coach Travel

to destinations throughout England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales together with destinations in Europe.

No Overnight travel on long journeys is our policy, so overnight stops are in hand with chosen hotels or in accommodation on board ferries to the Continent.

All AVA Travel Tours include Door to Door Service direct from your home to Coach, Airport or Docks

and on return from your destination back home, so you can relax and enjoy your holiday without having to worry about anything other than having a good time. AVA Travel also offer a selection of Cruises, together with our own Made-to-Measure Flights & Hotels to Jersey and Guernsey available throughout April to September.

Our Summer 2017 AVA Travel Holiday Tours Brochure programme is now underway and our new October 2017 to April 2018 Holiday Tours Brochure will be available from 23 May to order over the phone just call 01772 622 222 or via our website at www.avatravel.co.uk

Based on the lovely Lancaster canal all-year round. Our fleet of steel in the Northwest of England. Water- hull narrow boats have full central babies provides holidays afloat heating, luxurious soft furnishings and everything you could want for a comfortable and cosy cruise even in the coldest times of the year.

Operating from landscaped private moorings, Water-babies is ideally located to cruise north to the medieval City of Lancaster and beyond to where sea, canal, mountains and the forest form the perfect backdrop.

The City of Lancaster offers culture in the historic castle and Cathedral.

Lancaster offers an abundance of venues to enjoy a pub lunch or something a bit special.

There is an opportunity to see the wildlife from a different position, Kingfishers , Herons and many more can be seen along the canal as it meanders ,following the contours of this land. You can feel miles away from the hustle of modern life. For those whom enjoy fishing, there is the opportunity to relax on the quiet banks of this canal.

W H O ARE WE ?

The Alabaster Jar is an independently run paint-your-own-pottery shop in Chorley, Lancashire.

We provide a relaxing and friendly atmosphere where you can come and spend some quality time making bespoke pottery products for your home or loved ones.

W HAT W E D O ?

Come in during our opening hours to create from a wide selection of

like and we will fire it for you in our kiln, then pop back a week later to collect your finished creation. There's no need to book but recommend ringing ahead for groups of 6+ WHY CHOOSE US? Unlike some other paint-yourown-pottery shops, we have no appointment system or studio fee.

Why not you ask? Call us on 01257 274690 to find out or call in at 180 Pall Mall, Chorley, PR7 2LH

GET DOWN TO THE ALABASTER JAR pottery. All of our pottery is painted in glaze and fired in a kiln, which makes it waterproof and fully useable. We have all sorts of pottery blanks for different tastes and plenty of selection for both children and adults. Prices start from 50p up to ÂŁ70 WHAT ELSE ?

You paint it, We fire it!

Simply drop into our studio, select a piece of pottery from a wide range of items. Paint your item however you