The Twilight Trail: New twinkling light trail opens at Manchester city centre’s newest green space Mayfield Park

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A huge twinkling light trail has arrived at Manchester City Centre's newest park for the festive season.  This Christmas, The Twilight Trail is set to illuminate Manchester at Mayfield Park from Friday November 17- Sunday December 31.  This brand new winter light show has taken over the 6.5 acre park, and visitors can expect to see never-before-seen immersive light displays, lantern installations, and a captivating soundscape.  There's also a host of festive traders including a mulled wine bar, a hot chocolate hut and a sweet emporium selling a range of treats such as candy floss and freshly made warm doughnuts.

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00:00 It's nice because it's right in the centre of the urban landscape,

00:03 so it's a bit of a surprise as you walk around the corner.

00:06 So I was saying that you've got the ones out in Dun and Massey

00:08 and places like that, but you have to drive to those.

00:10 This is really accessible, easy to get to after work, so it's great.

00:14 A huge twinkling light trail has arrived at Manchester City Centre's

00:17 newest park for the festive season.

00:19 This Christmas, the Twilight Trail is set to illuminate Manchester

00:23 at Mayfield Park from Friday the 17th of November

00:26 until Sunday the 31st of December.

00:29 This brand new winter light show has taken over the 6.5 acre park

00:33 and visitors can expect to see never before seen immersive light displays,

00:38 lantern installations and a captivating soundscape.

00:41 There's also a host of festive traders, including a mulled wine bar,

00:45 a hot chocolate hut and a sweet emporium selling a range of treats

00:49 such as candy floss and freshly made warm donuts.

00:53 Honestly, it's beautiful.

00:54 We come in and we've just been blown away by how lovely the lights look

00:57 and how Christmassy it is and it's just really nice to come down

01:00 and do something festive.

01:01 Especially when it's not raining, it makes such a difference, doesn't it?

01:04 So, yeah, it's really, really special for the kids as well to experience.

01:06 Kids are loving it.

01:07 Yeah.

01:08 With the music and stuff and the experience and the atmosphere

01:10 really makes a difference.

01:11 So, yeah.

01:12 Yeah, we've been to ones in the past, but this is really lovely.

01:15 And, you know, it's really, really good value as well

01:18 compared to something that you can't see.

01:19 I think it's been really interesting to see.

01:21 It's nice that things like this are coming into the city centre

01:24 as opposed to being out in the suburbs traditionally,

01:27 you know, in the country parks.

01:28 But now we've got our first kind of green space,

01:32 new big green space in the city.

01:34 It's nice that things and events like this can happen,

01:37 you know, for people living in the city and visiting the city.

01:40 It looks to be as good, if not better, because it is a lot more accessible

01:44 to everyone because of the transport link.

01:47 So it means that you get a lot more people.

01:50 So that makes it a lot more exciting.

01:52 And yeah, it's quite a good vibe here today, you know,

01:55 because Manchester, there's so many different cultures

01:58 and a really exciting place to live.

02:00 It would be really good to just make sure that that doesn't disappear

02:03 going forward, you know, that there's always something for us to do.

02:07 It's absolutely brilliant.

02:08 Fantastic. Yeah.

02:09 Really great for the kids.

02:11 Eeeh, Seth!

02:13 It's the music.

02:13 I love the music as well.

02:15 It's like being in a nightclub.

02:17 Oh, it is?

02:18 Don't judge you.

02:19 No, it's really good.

02:20 It's really impressive.

02:22 I think it's fantastic.

02:23 It's good for the children as well.

02:24 It's good to come out in all this time for the children.

02:26 Yeah, it's really fab.

02:28 Yeah. And it's good that the park is open as well for the kids.

02:31 Very impressed.

02:32 We've come up from London and we're sightseeing around Manchester.

02:36 So we thought we'd stop off here.

02:39 And so far, so good.

02:41 Yeah, yeah, really good.

02:43 Really enjoying it.

02:44 There's so much colour

02:46 and the tree is absolutely beautiful.

02:50 The tree in the middle.

02:51 It's really lovely.

02:52 What a great use of space that's hardly ever been used.

02:55 It's just come massively to life.

02:57 Really works in the space.

02:58 I'm here with a team from work and we're all just loving it.

03:01 And we're looking forward to the rest of it.

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