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Each year over 2,000 people organise events for Heritage Open Days in their area; you could be one of them!

Heritage Open Days 2025: 12-21 September

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03 Jan 2025

New Year Honours – 2024 festival favourites

New Year is a time for lists, resolutions and honours; so reflecting on last year and thinking about what highlights lie ahead, we’ve come up with an alternative Honours list. To get you thinking about what catches attention, here are some events that proved firm favourites for the team and media in 2024…

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24 Oct 2024

Crewe Lyceum Theatre

This beautiful historic theatre in Cheshire not only knows how to pull in the crowds for a show, but how to engage visitors with its history! Their backstage tours with a local historian are always popular but this year they expanded their repertoire to reach an even wider audience with two new events: a pantomime costume workshop, and a spooky escape room created in collaboration with young adults.

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