One of the highlights of Southport’s events calendar is the annual Southport Flower Show, which runs from Thursday 20th August, until Sunday 23rd August, 2009.

The first show was held in Southport 80 years ago, in 1929.

This is an immensely popular event and somewhere in the region of 100,000 visitors are likely to attend this year’s Southport Flower Show, over the course of the four day event.

The event will take place in Victoria Park, a site of around 34 acres located at the south end of Southport’s attractive promenade.

The dates and opening times for the 2009 Show are:

Thursday 20th, Friday 21st & Saturday 22nd August – 9:00 am to 6:00 pm
and Sunday 23rd August – 10:00 am to 5:00 pm

Every year the Southport Flower Show has a theme. The theme for this year’s show is the 1920s, to celebrate the event’s 80th anniversary. Attractions include the Bayer Garden roadshow, floral arts, Food Northwest marquee, rural crafts and show gardens.

Southport, on Merseyside, is a thriving, very popular seaside town on the Irish Sea coast. The town is a little over an hours drive from Manchester and there are good rail links to Southport from central Manchester. In addition, a shuttle bus runs from Southport’s railway station to Victoria Park every 30 minutes.

The Southport Flower Show website has lots more details about the show, whats on and more information about ticket for the show.