'Friends' enjoying afternoon tea on  

The 'Friends of Alston' summer trip 2011

The outing this year was a coach trip to
Dunham Massey where house and gardens
were visited, also a canal-boat excursion

(Photographs by Wendy Singleton)

Introductory talk at Dunham Massey 

One of the Dunham Massey residents

Cardiocrinum giganteum   known as  - 

'Giant Himalayan Lillies'

An unusual visitor to the lawn at
Alston Hall was this helicopter
which landed during the
'Summer Fair' on 19th June

Photo by  Malcolm Tranter

Two of the 'new' bedrooms in the 'Stable-Block'  

  financed with help from the 'Friends of Alston'

'Friends' working in A.H. garden on 'Himalayan Balsam Day'

A Summer Afternoon at Alston Hall - July 2010
The Walkers Return........

Card Makers hard at work.........