The new team at The Great Hall in Winchester have replaced their long-standing regular Father Christmas and Grand Elf with a new Santa's Grotto experience. Southampton mum-of-two Kirsty - who ...

Winchester’s grotto, housed in the city’s 13th-century Great Hall, had been beloved over the years because of its jovial Father Christmas, who even remembered the children who visited him.

A Santa's Grotto event branded as a popular upmarket Christmas affair has been ... Santa's Grotto Experience at the historic Great Hall in Winchester was meant to be an upscale event, but featured ...

Visitors have slammed the festive event at the historic Great Hall in Winchester and accused ... with the original Father Christmas and Grand Elf duo being replaced. On the experience's website ...

However, a Father Christmas impersonator at the Great Hall in Winchester, Hampshire left visitors unimpressed with his "blatantly fake beard" and "cheap red suit". Matthew Fernandez, who visited ...

FATHER Christmas has graced the streets ... READ MORE: Letter: 'We had a great time at Winchester Great Hall Santa's Grotto' Rudolph, also known as Tony Higginson, said: "We did this last year ...

Hampshire Cultural Trust will offer full refunds to anyone yet to visit the new grotto experience at the Great Hall in Winchester ... the long-standing Father Christmas and Grand Elf events ...

"So we had so many people returning every year – whole hosts of Christmas photographs. It was absolutely lovely. "Winchester's a wonderful city. Whilst the Great Hall was being looked after by ...