An enchanting light trail in Greater Manchester is bringing magic to the city-region this winter.
Glow at RHS Garden Bridgewater in Worsley is illuminating part of its 154 acre grounds with spectacular light displays until the end of December this year.
There are light tunnels, fairy lights, mirror balls, and much more, and the trail engages all your senses with enchanting tunes from the Chinese Music Pavillion.
Performers from Jago Juggling Arts take to the stage to light up the night with a stunning light poi juggling act.
We headed down to check out Glow for ourselves.
Glow at RHS Garden Bridgewater in Worsley is illuminating part of its 154 acre grounds with spectacular light displays until the end of December this year.
There are light tunnels, fairy lights, mirror balls, and much more, and the trail engages all your senses with enchanting tunes from the Chinese Music Pavillion.
Performers from Jago Juggling Arts take to the stage to light up the night with a stunning light poi juggling act.
We headed down to check out Glow for ourselves.
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00:00 It's a great way of bringing all the family together, from the children to the grandparents
00:05 to the parents. You can come, you can have a nice walk around, you know, walk off those
00:10 winter blues, get out and about, see some beautiful lights, see the garden in a different
00:13 light and just have a really nice evening out.
00:16 An enchanting light trail in Greater Manchester is bringing magic to the city region this
00:21 winter.
00:22 Glow at RHS Garden Bridgewater in Worsley is a luminating part of its 154-acre grounds.
00:29 With spectacular light displays until the end of December this year.
00:33 There are light tunnels, fairy lights, mirror balls and much more, and the trail engages
00:37 all your senses with enchanting tunes from the Chinese Music Pavilion.
00:42 Performers from Jago Juggling Arts take to the stage to light up the night with a stunning
00:46 light poi juggling act.
00:49 We headed down to check out Glow for ourselves.
00:51 This is the third year that we've done Glow at Bridgewater and it's our winter light trail
00:56 so it's an opportunity to see the garden in a completely different light.
00:59 Obviously it's the middle of winter, it's December, lots of our plants have gone dormant
01:04 for the season so we give visitors an opportunity to see how it looks a bit different at an
01:09 alternative time of the year.
01:10 We're a huge site, we're 154 acres, now the trail isn't all of that 154 acres, that would
01:15 take hours to walk around.
01:16 But if you come with your family you could spend an evening here, there's plenty of places
01:20 to eat and drink either before, during or after the trail.
01:23 It'll probably take 40 minutes to an hour to walk around it but it's a great festive
01:28 thing to do with your friends, with your family, it's a really nice way to set yourself up
01:32 for Christmas.
01:33 There's thousands of lights over several kilometres, we've got all LED lights because obviously
01:38 sustainability is really important to us.
01:41 But yeah we've tried to illuminate as much of the trail as possible just to give people
01:45 a real sense of what there is to see here.
01:48 We've tried to make our light trail really specific to the garden.
01:52 So it's all about the garden, there's some beautiful trees that we've uplit.
01:57 But we've also tried to bring a little bit of magic in as well.
02:01 So for example we've got our light juggler, great for kids, great for families, it's like
02:06 some sort of alchemist, the way he creates shapes and words with his juggling.
02:11 We've got an interactive light sculpture and we've got some projection mapping onto Garden
02:17 Cottage, one of the more iconic buildings here.
02:19 And that's co-commissioned with Lightwaves from Media City who we've been working with.
02:23 It's getting dark already, it's almost four o'clock and so yeah it's definitely the best
02:28 time of year for us to do it.