Good Morning Cheshire! 👋 

Good morning, Cheshire! Spring has finally stopped teasing us and April is delivering the goods – blossom on the trees, longer evenings, and a packed week of things to do across the county. Whether you’re after live music, a free family festival on the cobbles, world-class opera, or a quiet wander somewhere beautiful, it’s all here.

Let’s dive in!

🎉 What’s On In Cheshire

🖼️ Sandbach Art Club Exhibition & Sale
Fri 24 Apr, The Masonic Hall, Scotch Common, Sandbach (runs all weekend) Local art, real artists, proper work for sale. Runs all weekend and coincides with the Transport Festival on Saturday.
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📱 Smartphone Photography Workshop
Fri 24 Apr, 10am-1:30pm, Tatton Park, Knutsford
Professional photographer Jane Burkinshaw leads a hands-on session teaching you how to get the most from your phone’s camera – with plenty of time outside in Tatton’s grounds. Max 12 places, £55.
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😄 Al Murray: All You Need Is Guv
Fri 24 Apr, 7:30pm, Parr Hall, Warrington
The Pub Landlord is back with a brand new show. Hot on the heels of a sell-out 138-date tour, this is Al Murray in full flow.
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🎸 Limehouse Lizzy
Fri 24 Apr, evening, Nantwich Civic Hall, Nantwich The world’s finest Thin Lizzy tribute, topping PRS’s hardest working bands list, rolls into the Civic Hall for a night of twin guitar magic.
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🎸 Ricky Warwick & The Fighting Hearts
Fri 24 Apr, 7pm doors, The Live Rooms, Chester
The Black Star Riders and Thin Lizzy frontman brings his solo band to Chester, with special guest Tony Wright of Terrorvision. A proper Friday night out for rock fans.
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🚛 Sandbach Transport Festival
Sat 25 Apr, all day, Town Centre & The Commons, Sandbach (FREE) Foden and ERF trucks, classic cars, planes, live music on the cobbles, fairground rides and food stalls. One of the best free family days out in the whole Cheshire calendar. Does what it says on the tin, brilliantly.
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🏎️ Free Motorsports Taster Day – Knutsford & District Motor Club
Sat 25 Apr, 1pm-5pm, Holly Tree Farm, Tabley Hill Lane, near Knutsford (FREE) Open to the general public from 1pm – come and have a go at club motorsport with no experience needed. A brilliant and unexpected free afternoon out.
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🦸 Wilmslow Comic Con
Sat 25 Apr, all day, Wilmslow Town Centre (FREE) The free, family-friendly Comic Con takes over Wilmslow town centre for a full day of cosplay, stalls and pop culture mayhem.
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🪩 ABBA Tribute Night
Sat 25 Apr, 6pm, Nunsmere Hall, Northwich
Welcome drink, three-course dinner and The Super Duper Troopers ABBA tribute band, followed by a disco until 1am at one of Cheshire’s finest country house hotels. From £70pp.
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🎵 Chester Male Voice Choir – Spring Concert
Sat 25 Apr, Chester Town Hall, Chester The choir takes over the grand Town Hall with special guests Coquet Concert Band from Northumbria. A proper musical occasion in a cracking building.
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🌱 Hoole Allotments Charity Plant Sale
Sat 25 Apr, 9:30am-12pm, Hoole Allotments, Panton Road, Chester (FREE) Grab plants and veg grown by the Hoole Allotments community, all in aid of charity. Perfect excuse for an early Saturday start.
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🥾 Frodsham Festival of Walks
Sat 25 Apr, various locations, Frodsham area A full day of guided walks to choose from – check the website for Saturday’s specific programme.
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🤘 A Celebration of Metallica – 40th Anniversary of Master of Puppets
Sat 25 Apr, 7pm doors, The Live Rooms, Chester
Moretallica mark four decades of one of the greatest metal albums ever made with a full live set. £15, bang your head accordingly.
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🌿 Open Gardens for NGS – Statham Avenue, Lymm
Sat 25 Apr & Sun 26 Apr, 10 Statham Avenue, Lymm A beautifully structured quarter-acre terraced garden rising up to the Bridgewater towpath. One of those residential gems the National Garden Scheme unearths every year.
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🎶 Laurence Perkins & Yoshiko Endo – Resonances
Sat 25 Apr, Middlewich Community Centre, Middlewich The closing concert of Middlewich and District Concerts Society’s 36th season, featuring world-class bassoon and piano. A hidden gem for classical music fans.
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🏃 Wilmslow Spring 10K
Sun 26 Apr, Wilmslow town centre A well-established spring race through Wilmslow – flat, fast and great for a PB attempt or a first 10K. Spectating is free and the town centre atmosphere is always buzzing on race day.
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🚴 Wilmslow Spring Triathlon
Sun 26 Apr, from 7am, Wilmslow Leisure Centre Sprint and double sprint options – pool swim, undulating Cheshire roads bike leg, scenic River Bollin run. Ideal for first-timers and seasoned triathletes alike.
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🛋️ Chester Midcentury Home Market
Sun 26 Apr, 11am-4pm, The Carriage Shed, Chester
Vintage and midcentury furniture, homewares and collectables in a great city centre venue. The kind of market you go in for twenty minutes and leave two hours later.
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🥾 Frodsham Festival of Walks
Sun 26 Apr, various locations, Frodsham area Check the programme for Sunday’s walk options – family and dog-friendly routes feature strongly across the weekend.
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🌿 Open Gardens for NGS – Hill Farm, Sandbach
Sun 26 Apr, Hill Farm, Sandbach CW11 3PS A half-acre series of garden rooms including a formal courtyard with pond and a south-facing vegetable garden. NGS at its best.
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🛒 Blakemere Car Boot Sale
Mon 27 Apr, from 7am, Blakemere Village, Sandiway, Northwich
Free entry for buyers, £7 for a car pitch, £12 for a van. Rows of finds in one of Cheshire’s most characterful spots – and Blakemere’s own shops open all day too.
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🎵 The Marches Songbook
Wed 29 Apr, 7pm, St Mary’s Church Hall, Sandbach
An intimate evening of living songs and stories from the English and Welsh borderlands, performed by tenor William Smith, composer-pianist Patrick Larley and storyteller Gill Larley. Part of the long-running Sandbach Concert Series. £12 adults.
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🚂 The Welsh Marches Express – Steam Railtour
Wed 29 Apr, departs Crewe 8:40am, Crewe Station
Board a steam-hauled luxury train at Crewe for a full day through the Welsh Marches to Cardiff – Shropshire hills, Ludlow, Hereford, the Brecon Beacons backdrop, and three hours in Cardiff before the return. A genuinely special day out.
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🚴 An Evening with Sir Bradley Wiggins
Thu 30 Apr, 7:30pm, Storyhouse Theatre, Chester The man himself, live on stage – stories from the Tour de France, the Olympics, and everything in between. A proper night out for cycling fans and sports lovers alike.
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• Frodsham Artisan Market – Sat 25 Apr, 10am-4pm | 👉 Details

• Nantwich Farmers Market – Sat 25 Apr, 9am-3pm | 👉 Details

• Congleton Makers Market – Sat 25 Apr, 10am-4pm | 👉 Details

• Treacle Market Macclesfield – Sun 26 Apr, 10am-3:30pm | 👉 Details

• Operation Mincemeat (Award-winning musical) – Mon 4-Sat 9 May | 👉 Details

• Great British Food Festival – Sat 9-Sun 10 May | 👉 Details

• Chester Folk Festival (50th Anniversary!) – Fri 22-Mon 25 May | 👉 Details

• Forest Live: The Kooks – Wed 17 Jun | Delamere Forest 👉 Details

• Royal Cheshire County Show – Tue 16-Wed 17 Jun | 👉 Details

• Bridgemere Show Gardens Food Festival – Sat 27-Sun 28 Jun | 👉 Details

💎 Hidden Gem: Abbeywood Gardens, near Delamere

Everyone knows Delamere Forest. Far fewer people pull into the car park just down the road on the A556 and discover Abbeywood Gardens, and that’s exactly why it’s worth going.

Set across 45 acres, Abbeywood feels like you’ve been let into a private estate. There are six acres of formal and informal gardens, a 1.2-mile wildlife walk through 27 acres of mature and newly planted woodland, and a seven-acre arboretum stocked with rare species you can’t help admiring even if you can’t name them. Spring is its best season – the woodland is coming alive, the formal beds are in early bloom, and it’s quiet enough that you can actually hear the birds.

The Garden Café serves proper homegrown and locally sourced food, from morning coffee through to a full three-course lunch in the orangery. Unhurried, civilised, and a genuinely lovely place to spend a couple of hours. Pair it with a walk into Delamere itself and you’ve got a half-day sorted.

Practical bits:

• Location: Abbeywood Gardens, Forest Road, Delamere, Northwich, CW8 2HS

• Getting there: Directly opposite Delamere Forest on the A556. Delamere train station is about 10 minutes’ walk (Mid-Cheshire Line, Chester-Manchester).

• Distance/terrain: 1.2-mile wildlife trail; mostly flat with some uneven ground. Formal garden areas are very accessible.

• Opening hours: Sunday-Thursday, 9am-5pm. Closed Friday and Saturday – plan accordingly.

• Dogs: Welcome in the grounds on a lead.

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That’s it for this week.

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