TURTON Tower re-opened this weekend (March 26) with a packed agenda of activities.
Outdoors, there were sword fighting displays, vintage military vehicles, live music and ex-Blackburn Rovers footballer Mark Patterson gave an audience a talk on his new book, Old School: A Proper Football Education.
The events were well attended with councillor Jean Rigby of West Pennine at Blackburn with Darwen Council opening the new-look Woodland Cafe at the Tower.
She said: "After two long years of serving people from a cabin in the grounds of Turton Tower and customers sitting in the woodland, at long last they can eat delicious snacks and cakes and coffees inside the new totally refurbished cafe."
On Sunday, activities continued with dancing from Regency Re-Jigged and live music from Grumpy Old Men.
A long-serving volunteer, Peter Farley, recounted ghost tales and he also spoke at length about his new book, Mysterious Tales of the Tower.
For many years, the dining room was used as a council chamber and the drawing room as a committee room, and in 1952 the Tower was opened as a museum by Edward Stanley, Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire.
The Tower is thought to have been standing since the early 1400s.
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