BOLTON CHA RAMBLING CLUB. Saturday September 9, a walk of approximately 12 miles around Dearden Clough, Waugh's Well and Cowpe. Meet 9.30am. Also, Saturday September 16, Yarrow Valley, Anglezarke and Round Loaf, 12 miles. Start 10.30am from Rivington. For all walks ring 697610.

RAWCLIFFE HALL, Great Eccleston. Saturday September 9 and Sunday September 10. Salute to the 40s. A nostalgic trip back to the 1940s with displays of World War Two vehicles, a Quad, Limber and 25 pounder gun, a campsite showing what life was like for soldiers, American medical equipment, weaponry, Kubelwagens, A Russian Gaz Jeep and photograhs and memorabilia. Admission £3.50 for adults and children under 14 free. Open 10am to 5pm. Also during the evening a 1940's dance evoking treasured memories of the era. Tickets £5. Ring 01995 670491 for tickets.

BOLTON ART CIRCLE, exhibitions, third Sunday of the month, art fair in the Penny Farthing Suite at The Last Drop. 11am to 4pm. Ring Bolton 847607. ROYAL ARMOURIES MUSEUM, Leeds. Open from 10.30am to 5.30pm. Adult prices £4.90, children/concessions £3.90 and family tickets £14.90. Ring 0990 1066 66.

DOLL AND TEDDY FAIR, Rivington Hall Barn, Bolton. Open 10am to 4pm.

RSPCA GALA DAY, a day of games and fun with an official opening by the Mayor and Mayoress of Bolton. There is also a fashion show and auction, Deane Leisure Centre, 1pm. September 3. Admission £1 for adults and 50p for children.

KING GEORGES HALL, Blackburn. Tuesday September 5. An Evening of Clairvoyance with Stephen O'Brien. Starts 7.30pm.

GRAND CINEMA, York Street, Clitheroe. Sunday September 24. Film show screening Beau Travail, the retelling of the Herman Melville story Billy Budd. Starts 2.30pm. Also at 7.30pm the screening of The Last September, based on Elizabeth Bowen's novel about the end of British rule in Ireland. The British Federation of Societies are also holding their AGM from 1.30pm. Admission £1 to each showing.

ARTBASE STUDIOS, The Old Fire Station, The Crescent, Salford. Creative Ceramics Course. Demonstrations and tuition where the individual can learn about coiling, slabbing and throwing, the use of glazes, electric and raku kiln packing and firing. Open Monday to Friday 9am to 4.45pm and Tuesdays, 6pm to 9pm. Price £6.50 per session. Ring Paul Smith on 0161 737 1040 for further details and to book.

HARROGATE INTERNATIONAL CENTRE, Harrogate. Harrogate Bridal exhibition featuring 190 exhibitors showing bridal gowns, groomswear, lingerie, evening wear, special occasion wear, jewellery, accessories and bridesmaids and pageboys clothes. Runs from September 10 to 13. Open Sunday September 10 9.30am to 6pm, Monday September 11, 9.30am to 6pm, Tuesday September 12, 9.30am to 5pm and Wednesday September 13, 9.30am to 4pm.

SOUTHPORT SEAFRONT, Southport. Southport Air Show 2000. Highlights of this year's show include a giant twin-rotor Chinook helicopter, the Red Arrows team, a Harrier jump jet, Tornado fighter planes, a Royal Navy Sea King helicopter known as one of the Flying Tigers, World War 2 vintage aircraft including a Corsair and Sea Fury fighter planes and a Douglas DC3 Dakota from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, a 1950s Canberra jet bomber, a Hunter F.Mk6A, the RAF Falcons freefall parachute display team, the Shape Skydivers, the Utterly Butterly Barnstormers wingwalking at speeds of up to 150mph on their 1940s vintage Boeing Stearman biplanes, vintage military vehicles, flight simulators, a display of model aircraft from the Southport Model Aero Club, trade stands and entertainment for all the family including bouncy castles and rides. The show starts 10am each day. Admission to the event is free for pedestrians. Car parking on the beach and seafront car parks is being held at only £10 per vehicle.

GRIZEDALE FOREST, Lake District. Grizedale Show. A weekend of art, forestry and fetes which includes limo tours visiting new works of art in the forest and the launch of the Festival of Lying celebrating the local tradition of 'Cumbrian lying", also displays of lumber jacks, the famous Welsh Axemen and displays of pole lathe turning and basket making. For children there is a rocket building and launch display, a forest treasure trail. Other attractions include forest art and nature tours, falcontry demonstrations, dry stone walling, a duck race, a marquee with stalls. Admission £25 for a weekend pass with many of the outdoor events free. Friday September 15 to Sunday September 17.

THE OLD PARSONAGE, Arley Green, Northwich, Cheshire. Viscount and Viscountess Ashbrook open their gardens for visitors to view yew hedges, herbaceous and mixed borders, shrub roses, climbers, woodland garden and a pond with waterplants, rhododendrons, azaleas, meconopsis. The Old Parsonage is a 1750 Georgian farmhouse which also includes a cluster of old farm buildings which have been converted into cottages and a 15th Century Cruck Barn which until recently was used as the local primary school. Sunday September 10. Open from 2pm to 5pm. Admission £2.50 for adults.

THORN COURT, Pendleton, Salford. The Thorn Court Residents Association show off their hard working skills and display a variety of plants and colour and a conservatory. Sunday September 10. Open from 10am to 5pm.