Tourist attractions gear up for Residents Festival (From York Press)
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Tourist attractions gear up for Residents Festival
8:48am Tuesday 24th January 2012 in York 800 news
TOURIST attractions across the York area are gearing up for the city’s best-ever Residents Festival this weekend.
Residents have a chance to visit more than 50 tours and attractions for free during the festival, part of the York 800 celebrations, which aims to thank local people for the warm welcome they give to York’s seven million annual visitors. A spokesman for the Yorkshire Air Museum at Elvington said people could come and see planes including the Nimrod MR2, a Halifax bomber, Mosquito Night fighter, Hawker Hurricane, Spitfire, Meteor, Vampire, Lightning, Buccaneer and Mirage MkIII and Panavia Tornado.
They could also visit the museum’s fascinating Bomber Command and Pioneers of Aviation exhibition, explore cockpit sections and go on a thrilling Hawker Harrier Experience flight simulator, for which a nominal charge applies.
The Yorkshire Air Museum will be open from 10am to 4pm and admission will be free to York Residents with appropriate proof of residence and identity, such as a York Card, or utility bill and photo identification.
Meanwhile, the Theatre Royal is organising back-stage tours every 30 minutes from noon until 4pm on Sunday.
Reserve places by visiting or phoning the box office on 01904 623568.
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ISeeEverything
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10:50am Tue 24 Jan 12
rayzzr
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Mentos
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TCJYork
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BigJon
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BigJon
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ToniMyers93
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4:42pm Mon 30 Jan 12
BigJon wrote:Oh shut up, your comment was removed because it was pointless and petty.
The wheel is obviously NOT set up to accommodate large numbers of people in a short time as they've removed my query from their facebook page and removed the facility for people to post on their wall...afraid of all the negative comments after Sunday??
They shouldn't receive any negative publicity giving that the staff had to put up with ignorant people all day and managed to get the whole way through it without going mad.
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