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After dark Easter fun at Flip Out Southampton

19th March, 2018 by Richard Clein

Flip Out Southampton is planning something egg-cellent for the Easter holidays.

Visitors to the Chandlers Park trampoline and adventure arena can expect to be involved in a whole host of egg-citing activities over the two week Easter period (2nd-16th April).

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Easter fun at Mattel Play! Liverpool

14th March, 2018 by Richard Clein

Mattel Play! Liverpool has baskets of fun in store for fans of Fireman Sam, Bob the Builder and Thomas and Friends this Easter.

Young visitors to the Albert Dock attraction can take part in spring crafts, with Easter egg decorating and card-making workshops running during the school holidays.

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Meet Liz Partridge the fireman – she doesn’t like being called a firewoman

8th March, 2018 by Richard Clein

Liz works at Snowdon Mountain Railway stoking the fires on the vintage steam engines as they climb Wales’ highest peak. She is Snowdon Mountain Railway’s very first female stoker in its 122-year history.

Liz is 28 and originally from Walsall in the Midlands. She loves steam engines and previously volunteered at Bala Lake Railway, where she first learnt to fire the little Quarry Hunslet engine. As her confidence grew, she went on to volunteer at the Llangollen Railway, and eventually became a cleaner, the role where you learn how to fire a standard gauge engine.

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