{"id":709,"date":"2024-11-03T19:59:25","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T19:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/?p=709"},"modified":"2024-11-24T20:08:21","modified_gmt":"2024-11-24T20:08:21","slug":"winter-2024-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/2024\/11\/03\/winter-2024-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter 2024\/2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just a reminder that we remain open throughout the winter months. Our normal running times are from 12:00 noon to 4:00 pm on Sundays; the weather has to be pretty grim for it to stop us running!  In addition, to coincide with Santa&#8217;s visits to Blakemere Village, we will be open on Saturday 7 December and Saturday 14 December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ordinarily, during the school holidays, we would also open on the Wednesdays but, this year, they are, respectively, Christmas Day and New Year&#8217;s Day, when Blakemere is shut (as it is, incidentally, on Boxing Day also).  We will not, therefore, be open on the Wednesdays of this school holiday. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/201228-005-Craig-Scarisbrick-Blakemere-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-713\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/201228-005-Craig-Scarisbrick-Blakemere-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/201228-005-Craig-Scarisbrick-Blakemere-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/201228-005-Craig-Scarisbrick-Blakemere-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/201228-005-Craig-Scarisbrick-Blakemere-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/201228-005-Craig-Scarisbrick-Blakemere-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/201228-005-Craig-Scarisbrick-Blakemere-1-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/201228-005-Craig-Scarisbrick-Blakemere-1-880x586.jpg 880w, https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/201228-005-Craig-Scarisbrick-Blakemere-1-385x257.jpg 385w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">In December 2020 the snow didn&#8217;t stop us! Come and see us this winter; there have been a lot of changes at the railway if you haven&#8217;t visited us since this photograph was taken.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Christmas sees the visit of Pete Waterman&#8217;s Making Tracks model railway to Blakemere. If you missed it at Chester Cathedral during the summer, or if you just want to experience it again, this is your chance. It is at Blakemere Village from Saturday 14 December to Sunday 5 January, open daily from 10:30 am (last entry 4:30 pm). You can book it at www.makingtracks.uk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a reminder that we remain open throughout the winter months. Our normal running times are from 12:00 noon to 4:00 pm on Sundays; the weather has to be pretty grim for it to stop us running! In addition, to coincide with Santa&#8217;s visits to <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/2024\/11\/03\/winter-2024-2025\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":718,"href":"https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions\/718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}