FRIDAY, JULY 8

National Trust: Lyme Park. The Italianate Palace is one of the biggest houses in Cheshire and was originally a Tudor house. National Trust: Lyme Park, Disley, Stockport. £9.90, child £5, family £22.50, house only £7.20, child £3.60, family £18. Jul 8-24, Sep 5-Oct 30, Friday-Tuesday 11am5pm, house, Jul 25-Sep 4, Thursday-Tuesday 11am-5pm. Call 01663 762023. National Trust: Lyme Park, Garden. Tranquil Victorian garden with roses and sunken parterre. National Trust: Lyme Park, Disley, Stockport. £9.90, child £5, family £22.50, garden only £6.30, child £3.15, family £15.75 Jul 8-Oct 30, 11am-5pm, garden, Nov 5-Dec 31, Sat-Sun 11am-4pm. Call 01663 762023. National Trust: Lyme Park, Park. Vast medieval deer park, moorland and woodland estate to explore. National Trust: Lyme Park, Disley, Stockport. £9.90, child £5, family £22.50. Jul 8-Oct 4, 8am-8pm, Oct 5, 8.30am-6pm. Call 01663 762023. Manford’s Comedy Club: With Angela Barnes, Damian Clarke, Mike Wilkinson and Simon Wozniak. Poynton Workmen’s Club, Park Lane, Poynton, Stockport. £12.50 - 8pm-11pm. Call 01625 803030. Staircase House: The house is set in the heart of Stockport’s historic market place and boasts an intriguing array of rooms linked by corridors and narrow passages. All the rooms have been restored using period colours, furniture and artefacts which reflect the attraction’s long and eventful history. The bedroom boasts a seventeenth century four poster bed, there’s a two hundred-year-old table in the eighteenth century dining room, an authentic busy kitchen and some historic lighting in the tallow room. There are also rumours of ghostly goings-on and the house is allegedly haunted by the ghost of Robert Owten, former butler to the Shallcross family. The building is a grade 2* listed medieval town house dating back