It’s a winter wonderland

Photo: Chris Sunderland

GLOBAL SUPPORT: queues at the large Snow Globe during Oldham’s Fairytale Weekend in the town centre To view and order images, use the “buy a photo” tab above

THE first flakes of snow fell in Oldham at the weekend as youngsters hurried to the town centre’s winter wonderland.

Oldham Council opened up a large snow globe for families to enjoy and have a free festive souvenir photograph.

Smiles were all over the faces of the children as they also met princesses and magical characters on the town’s Fairytale Weekend.

Derek Lamb, great-grandfather of Cameron Radcliff (4) was impressed by the festive events.

He said: “You don’t get many things for free nowadays, so this is very welcome.

“You can just see so many youngsters happy, which is always a wonderful thing.”

Sara Hewitt, town centre manager, added: “This is the first in a series of free events Oldham council are putting on during December.

“We have free parking on Saturdays on all council-owned car parks in the town centre.”

Next weekend take in the Winter Wonderland and skate on a synthetic ice rink and enjoy brass bands.

The town centre will turn back the clock the following weekend for the Victorian Christmas Weekend