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Home > Archives for The Alnwick Garden

Archives for The Alnwick Garden

Alnwick Garden - Poison Garden

The Poison Garden at Alnwick

It’s Halloween, so we thought we’d bring you a suitably dark and unusual visitor attraction in Northumberland as our Curiosity of the Week…

The Alnwick Garden - The Dark Garden - Halloween 2016

Will you be brave enough to enter The Dark Garden?

Visitors to Alnwick in Northumberland this Halloween can explore a garden with a difference, courtesy of the interactive and scary Dark Garden…

Curiosity of the Week

Normanton Church, a waterside wonder
Normanton Church by Karen Cann

Welcome to a new year, and a new Curiosity of the Week! Our first curiosity of 2021 is a sunken church. It’s also one of the UK’s finest hidden gem tourist attractions…

Top Story

Drama from a toilet cubicle
Overflow, Bush Theatre steaming show

This month, UK audiences can enjoy a streamed performance of Overflow, a heart-wrenching show played out in a club toilet…

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