E: 21/11 (10am) Family Pass to Portsmouth's Victorian Festival of Xmas: 28-30 Nov

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About the Festival

Visitors to experience a day in the life of a Victorian at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard’s Victorian Festival of Christmas

A snow-covered family day out – Victorian style – is guaranteed at this year’s Victorian Festival of Christmas at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard from Friday 28 – 30 November 2008.

Whilst revelling in the traditional seasonal cheer of a white Victorian Christmas, families can step back over 150 years to experience the strict rules of a Victorian school, sample hearty Victorian food, visit a traditional Victorian ‘green’ Father Christmas, play parlour games, join in with novel bawdy music hall in Fagin’s Tavern and delight in traditional Christmas carols, street and fairground entertainments.

Visitors will need to be on the look out for pickpockets along the way, who will be joined by Fagin himself and a host of other colourful Victorian characters such as Scrooge, Mr Bumble. The event will also get the Royal seal of approval with a special appearance by Queen Victoria.

Watch out in the snow-covered Victorian street for a football match, a stall with a mixture of new Pompey merchandise and old memorabilia and The FA Cup, on display on Saturday 29th November (designed in 1871).

For those looking for the perfect gift, there is an opportunity to wander through the European-style shopping village, Victorian Street, Georgian colonnades and discover quality gifts, fine crafts, festive food and drink at the biggest Christmas market on the South Coast.

The three day festival, now in its ninth year, uses the backdrop of the Historic Dockyard’s 18th and 19th Century architecture and the historic ships, notably the Victorian iron-hulled HMS Warrior 1860, the Tudor Mary Rose, the Georgian HMS Victory, one of the UK’s leading maritime museums, the Royal Naval Museum and the interactive Action Stations, which tests both brain power and skill, as inspiration to bring the 12 acre site alive.