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The Black Country Festival 2018 Mayor’s Welcome
This will be the fifth year of the Black Country Festival and more and more people are taking part every year.
We are expecting thousands of people again to support and enjoy the events taking place across the whole of the Black Country including Dudley borough.
Black Country folk are extremely proud of their heritage and love to celebrate.
As both Mayor and as a resident of this borough I am keen to take part in activities during the festival and to meet many people during my civic duties.
The whole of July will be packed with a range of events including carnivals, music, comedy, fun days, sporting events and the big day itself on the 14 July, Black Country Day.
Make sure you come and have a bostin’ time and get along to some of the community events near you. Have fun.
Councillor Alan Taylor Mayor of Dudley
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The Black Country Festival 2018 Introduction
Hello and welcome to the guide to and make sure you don’t miss out on anything The Black Country Festival 2018. of interest to you. There is sure to be something on your doorstep for the whole family to enjoy. We are delighted to be entering the fifth year of We have also thrown the spotlight on our annual celebrations, both heartened by the some local institutions who are synonymous with success of last four year’s events and excited The Black Country people and spirit. Please take about 2018 which we hope will be bigger, better the time to read about them and consider their and more engaging for you, the people of The services. They have all rolled their sleeves up to Black Country. help make the celebrations as much fun as The Black Country Festival Committee possible for you the people. have been working hard for the past twelve We sincerely hope you enjoy the months to make sure there truly is something for events this year and encourage you to get everyone in the area this July. From music, involved in whatever way you can. theatre, comedy and sports to good old fashioned get togethers and celebrations across all the boroughs. We are hugely fortunate again this year to have enjoyed fantastic support from the borough councils across all parties and particularly local businesses and institutions, without whom the festival would not be able to take place. In this magazine you will find listings for all festival events to help you plan your month Left to right:
Steven Edwards, David Brownhill How it all began and James Stevens.
Steve Edwards came up with the idea for Black came in 2014 when Garry Sawers, Pete Lowe Country Day in 2012. The Flag had been and Ian Marrey met to discuss the idea of the launched by the Black Country Living Museum festival. A further meeting was arranged with like and thought our area needed a day of minded community campaigners and the idea to celebration. He wanted to celebrate our history, hold a summer festival began to take shape. In heritage and indeed our future. Our communities order to tie that in with a benchmark day of needed to be reunited and this was a perfect historical importance, July 14th was decided way for people to learn about and celebrate our upon in order to mark the invention of the world’s history. first steam engine, by Thomas Newcomen in He initially chose the date March 30th 1712. This event is considered by many to be 2013 for the first Black Country Day. The reason the real beginning of the industrial revolution. In behind the date was quite simple. He set it for the age of the digital revolution the idea spread the weekend after St Patrick’s Day. The whole of like wildfire and the last four year’s Black Country the world becomes patriotic for St Paddy’s Day Festivals exceeded all of our expectations with and saw it as the perfect opportunity to thousands of people coming together to encourage Black Country People to show our celebrate throughout the month of July. own patriotism. So, now, five years on, here we go Although celebrated by a small again. The festival is in rude health and will be number, the real success of Black Country Day bigger and better than ever.
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The Black Country Festival 2018 Black Country Ales
Micro Brewery.. Major Taste
The perfect pour since 1834! Beer and Gornal go together like peaches and cream and one of the key sites for brewing in the village is at The Old Bull’s Head, which produced its first pint way back in 1834. The current brewery, which still utilises some of the early brewing and fermenting equipment, is owned and operated by Black Country Ales, who themselves have been producing their popular beers on the site for over fourteen years. NEW Acquisitions Black Country Ales supply beer to their own Black Country Ales have recently purchased 3 pubs and alehouses, which number over thirty new pubs... and can be found dotted throughout the area. The company is a Black Country business by Real Ale Tavern, 67 Load Street, Bewdley name and nature. A large chain with community DY12 2AW. pub ideals. Each of their ale houses has an Jewellers Arms, 23 Hockley Street, Hockley, identity all of its own and having visited most of Birmingham B18 6BW. them I can honestly say I’ve had good Cross Inn, 34 Alcester Road, Finstall, experiences across the board. Our pubs are Bromsgrove B60 1EW. dotted around the Black Country and surrounding areas. Please see our Facebook page for updates. Black Country Festival And the award goes to... Black Country Ales are proud to be supporters It has been a successful year with Black Country of the Black Country Festival, as it signifies Ales owned-pubs being voted CAMRA everything that's great about our local heritage (Campaign for Real Ale) Pub of the year. and community. Dog Inn, Burton (1st Place), Black Country Arms, Walsall (1st Place), Pretty Bricks, Walsall Why not pop into one of their pubs during July (3rd Place) and the Waggon & Horses, and raise a pint to the Festival. Halesowen (1st Place). Check out their website for all of their local pubs Their popular beers include BFG, Pig on the Wall - www.blackcountryales.co.uk and Fireside. Cheers!
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The Black Country Festival 2018 Craddock’s Brewery
The Duke William Award winning pub and home to Craddock’s brewery – what more reason do you need to visit The Duke William?
Customers drinking in the beer garden have a front row seat to watch Craddock’s seven house ales brewing. But if real ale isn’t your tipple, the pub also stocks 10 varieties of malt whiskies, more than 30 Belgian and continental beers, and an extensive range of premium spirits and traditional soft drinks.
Weekly and monthly events take place in the bar and in the function room upstairs.
Plough & Harrow With its beautiful beer garden and roaring log fire, the Plough & Harrow is a country pub in Stourbridge town centre.
Attracting customers aged 18 to 80, it serves a wide range of award-winning ciders and ales as well as the original pub grub such as cobs, pork pies and scotch eggs.
Dogs on leads and children are welcome in the beer garden.
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Saturday 14th July 2018 Supported By 11.00am - 5.00pm
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The Black Country Festival 2018 Dudley Building Society
Part of the Black Country for over 160 years
With five local branches in the region they are able to provide a fantastic range of products and services to their Members, some of which can be seen below:
• A range of Savings accounts including Notice Accounts, Bonds, Regular Savers, ISAs, Instant Access Accounts and Children’s Accounts. • Mortgages and Further Advances • Financial Advice • Pension Advice • Home Insurance
Recently the Society was named 24th in the league tables as a Best Company to Work For in the Midlands 2018. Head of People and Governance, Megan Price, said, ‘We are so proud of this recognition. Our Society has been through extensive modernisation in recent years and our people have been at the heart of this transformation. Our aim is to make Dudley Building Society has been providing every employee feel valued which in turn mortgages and savings accounts to the Black delivers exceptional service to our customers Country for 160 years. They have embedded and surrounding community, being named as themselves at the heart of the community, a top 25 employer within the Midlands is the offering a friendly face to members and the icing on the cake’. local communities. Being such an integrated part of the Black Country, they are proud to be involved and supporting the Black Country Festival.
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The Black Country Festival 2018 MA Pardoes The Olde Swan Inn, Netherton
The story of Ma Pardoe’s (The Swan) in Netherton when it opened at 6.00pm to see what had happened is as rich and fulsome as the beers they are and if everyone was alright. The pub then continued to famous for producing. This unique establishment trade selling Ansell’s Mild and Batham’s bitter while the has always been at the heart of Black Country brewery was re-roofed. Brewing with ales being produced on the same Tim’s first stint at the pub ended in 1987 site since 1835. and shortly after the Pub was sold. Brewing stopped It has taken many turns and twists of fate on site in 1989 and for the remainder of the 1980’s and over the last one hundred and eighty years to see the throughout the 1990’s it was very much a pub of its pub arrive as a Netherton landmark and a local time, permeated by the cultural trends of those periods institution. The building was originally known as The both good and bad. It is fair to say I think that during Swan way back in the early nineteenth century. The this period the original charms and values that had eponymous Mr. & Mrs. Pardoe arrived in 1934 to begin made it great swamped by less wholesome influences their tenure at the pub, at which time the ales where and it is no surprise that this more commercial brewed by Solomon Cooksey. The pub still retains incarnation closed its doors in March 2000. many of the original features from this period and a visit With the pub now in the ownership of to the establishment is something of a history lesson. Punch Taverns the Black Country spirit came to the The walls are strewn with pictures of great historical fore with Tim and business partner Paul Cooksey ( a interest and the decor and features within tell a story third generation of the Cooksey clan) returning to the of a Black Country gone by. It really is worth visiting for Olde Swan in November 2000. The way forward was that reason alone, being every bit a living museum and by returning to the values of the past so the old bar as popular today as it ever was both with patrons of and smoke room now restored to their former glory re- the pub and trade buyers of the ales brewed there. opened their doors. It’s worth noting that Tim re- The current Licensee Tim Newey has opened Ma Pardoe’s at 6pm on the very day the himself a long and interesting history with the contracts had been signed. Enlisting the help of brewer establishment. He pulled his first pint there in 1977 Dave Rawston, the trio refurbished the brewery on site (13p) and so has a direct link with Ma Pardoe, having and doubled the previous capacity for producing ale worked for her and the family until she passed away in which was the main reason for others struggling to 1984, her husband having been taken some 32 years make the operation viable. Since this time and still previously. Tim took on the running of the pub during under the tenure of Paul and Tim the pub has gone what can only be described as a tumultuous period. A from strength to strength, re-establishing trade links - consortium of businessmen bought the business, the brewery’s Original light mild plus Dark Swan, Entire, along with CAMRA and formed Netherton Ales. The Bumble Hole & NPA have never been out of production aim of the company was to brew and sell ales to the - and putting the pub back on its feet. trade and maintain the front of house business, Ma Pardoe’s is now a true Black Country however running a pub and brewery is not the easy attraction, selling traditional black country food and profitable task that everyone thinks it is. prepared on site by local chefs with fresh local None of this was helped by a fire which ingredients and selling home brewed ales both over took hold in 1986 which left the pub with less than a the bar and across the country. It has never been a weeks supply of beer in the cellar and substantial better time to visit or re-visit this great Black Country damage to the brewery. It is a testament to the “fair Boozer than during our Festival. You are assured a play” spirit of The Black Country that Harry Cartilage of warm welcome by Tim and his team. Ansell’s Brewery was the first person through the door
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The Black Country Festival 2018 Event Listings
Saturday 30th June 2018 - BANKS'S BLACK Wednesday 4th July 2018 - MINISTRY OF SCIENCE COUNTRY BEERS - BLACK COUNTRY LIVING Wolverhampton Grand Theatre. 100% Educational, MUSEUM Try Banks's top 10 finest ales in our Bottle 200% Entertaining, 300% Explosive, 400% Fun. This is and Glass Inn. a public safety announcement... please keep your head firmly on your shoulders, and your arms, legs and feet Saturday 30th June - 1st July 2018 BEGINNERS' inside the ride at all times - Ministry of Science is about to BOBBIN LACE MAKING COURSE - BLACK explode on stage! COUNTRY LIVING MUSEUM During the day you will be taught the basic techniques of traditional bobbin Thursday 5th July 2018 - RHYTHM OF THE DANCE lace making. Wolverhampton Grand Theatre. This stunning Irish spectacular that is Rhythm of the dance, a fully live show Saturday 30th June 2018 - GORNAL FUNDAY that celebrates Irish culture through music and dance, Recreation Ground, The Quarry, Vale Street.12noon - featuring world champion dancers, a traditional Irish 4.00pm. Band, singers, a most gifted cast who have been wowing audiences all over the world since 1999. Sunday 1st July 2018 - ARMED FORCES DAY Himley Hall & Park. This free event offers fun for all the Friday 6th July 2018 - BONDED WAREHOUSE family, including an Archery Range, Paint Ball Gallery, FOOD FESTIVAL An extension of the popular ex-military Vehicle display and Vintage Childrens Rides. Halesowen Carnival. Including 3 stages and a world food 11.00am. court.
July 2018 - BLACK COUNTRY FILM FESTIVAL 6th July - 7th July 2018 - LITTLE BABY BUM Tipton Library. Screenings of films with a local flavour Wolverhampton Grand Theatre. Step into the magical throughout July. Contact Library for times and dates. and colourful world of Little baby bum. Join Mia, Jacus, Twinkle and their Nursery Rhyme friends at the Sunday 1st July 2018 - DUDLEY PERFORMING world premiere of a brand new live show. ARTS SUMMER FESTIVAL Dudley Town Hall. Friday 6th July 2018 - STREET FOOD AFFAIR Sunday 1st July 2018 - PROMISE DREAMS - 5.00pm - 9.00pm. The Bonded Warehouse, Stourbridge. WALK FOR DREAMS 2018 Walk for Dreams is back!! Join us for our annual 10 mile sponsored walk from Saturday 7th July 2018 - AN EVENING OF Himley Cricket Club to Wolverhampton Racecourse. CLAIRVOYANCE Stourbridge Town Hall. Phillips For more Info visit: www.walkfordreams.co.uk. Solomon. 7.00pm.
Sunday 1st July 2018 THE BLACK COUNTRY Saturday 7th July 2018 - BLACK COUNTRY HALF ROAD RUN After Raising £23,000 last year, The Black MARATHON The Birmingham Black Country Half Country Road Run is BACK! Over 1100 people took Marathon is a unique point to point race along canal part last year, running, walking & raising money for towpaths starting in Wolverhampton City Centre and Charity. Check out the website & get involved finishing in Brindley Place Birmingham. www.bbchm.net. www.theblackcountryrun.com Saturday 7th July 2018 - CRADLEY HEATH Sunday 1st July 2018 - THE GOOD TRADITIONS CHAINMAKERS FESTIVAL Cradley Heath High Street. IRISH BAND Willenhall Park, Band Stand. 2pm-4pm A family friendly street festival involving market stalls, fun fair rides, speeches, street theatre, music and debate, Tuesday 3rd July 2018 - THE HILARITY CHARITY the 2017 festival promises to be a hugely successful and GALA Wolverhampton Grand Theatre. enjoyable day. Wolverhampton's biggest line up of comedians returns for an unmissable night of laugh out loud comedy. Saturday 7th July 2018 - GRIMETHORPE COLLIERY BAND Wolverhampton Grand Theatre. Formed in 1917 during the First World War Grimethorpe Colliery Band is a British institution.
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?????Saturday 14th July 2018 - BLACK COUNTRY Saturday 7th July 2018 - HALESOWEN CARNIVAL Tuesday 10th July 2018 - BLACK COUNTRY ART MASTERS GOLF TOURNAMENT 2018 Dudley Golf Highfield Park, Halesowen. 12noon - 6pm. Music, Dance GROUP Tipton Library. Join our friendly group to Club. Main Events. Entry Fee £10 Members £15 Fair, Vikings, market & Bar!!!! [email protected] sketch some local scenes. 1.30pm - 3.30pm. Visitors. Handicap Certificate must be produced at presentation. Dudley Gold Club, Turners Hill, Rowley Saturday 7th July 2018 - NETHERTON PARK FUN DAY Wednesday 11th July 2018 - BABY FESTIVAL Regis, B65 9DP. Contact Steve Price Tel: 0138 Northfield Road, Netherton, DY2 9ER. 10am-5.00pm. UNDER 5'S DAY Baggeridge Country Park. Tickets: 233877. www.bellesbabyboutique.com. 9.30am - 3.00pm. 7th July 2018 - OAKHAM LIBRARY FAMILY DAY Family Day at Oakham Library with Black Country Wednesday 11th July 2018 - ORGANIC JAM singers/ performances. Real Black Country food. NIGHT Kate Fitzgeralds, Stourbridge. Wednesday 11th July 2018 - BABY FESTIVAL 10:30am - 13:30pm. Hosted By Friends of Oakham UNDER 5'S DAY Baggeridge Country Park. Tickets: Library. Pop in & support this bostin event. Thursday 12th July 2018 - QUIZ NIGHT www.bellesbabyboutique.com. 9.30am - 3.00pm. Glebefields Library. Our popular quiz night returns to Saturday 7th July 2018 - PELSALL CARNIVAL the library - come and test your knowledge and expect 10.00am - 1.00pm. www.pelsallcarnival.org some questions on the Black Country. Entry is £1 per team member with a maximum team size of five. Book Saturday 7th July 2018 - SANDWELL your team a place on 0121 557 8641. VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT King Georges Playing Fields, Sandwell Valley. All teams welcomed and we Friday 13th July 2018 - AFTERNOON TAY AT are on facebook. LANGLEY LIBRARY Celebrate Black Country Day at Langley Library with free hot drinks and homemade Sunday 7th July 2018 - STOURBRIDGE CARNIVAL cake at our "afternoon tay" 3.00pm - 4.20pm. Sunday 15th July 2018 - SUMMER FEST Stourbridge Town Centre. Himley Hall, Dudley. 5.00pm - 10.00pm. Hosted by Friday 13th July 2018 - CUPPA ‘N’ A CANT AT Signal 107 and Mary Stevens Hospice. Saturday 7th July 2018 - TIVIDALE PARK FUNDAY BRANDHALL LIBRARY Brandhall will be having a Tividale Park, Oldbury. Tividale Park continues to "cuppa n a cant" to celebrate Black Country Day. celebrate its 90th anniversary year with Tividale's biggest 11.00am - 12 noon. free event, our very own Black Country Festival Day Out featuring childrens entertainment, three bouncy castles, 13th July - 18th July 2018 - LADIES DAY face painting, circus skills, magic show and much more. Wolverhampton Grand Theatre. Amanda’s comedy hit Live entertainment throughout the day including dancers, Ladies Day starring Emmerdale's Deena Payne. Work, singers and bands. Carboot and refreshments all day. love and life are just one long, hard slog for local fish- Contact: Max Robinson Tel: 07790 600613. filleting foursome. Will their fortunes change when they head to Ladies' Day at Wolverhampton Race Course! 7th & 8th July 2018 - WOLVERHAMPTON FESTIVAL OF FOOD & DRINK Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, Friday 13th July 2018 - THE MERSEY BEATLES WV1 1SE. Free Tickets: www.skiddle.com. Brierley Hill Civic Hall. A real treat for Beatles fans Tickets £15. 9.00pm-11.30pm. Doors open at 8pm Sunday 8th July 2018 - BEARWOOD PICNIC IN THE www.bhillcivic.co.uk. PARK 1.00PM - 6.00PM. Warley Woods, B67 5ED. Friday 13th July 2018 - FRIDAY FRIENDS Rounds Sunday 8th July 2018 - BRIGHOUSE AND Green Library. Join the Friday friends for a "Bostin brew RASTRICK BAND 140th Anniversary Concert. Dudley and um med bread puddin." 10.30am - 12.30pm. Town Hall. 5.00pm. 14th July 2018 - BLACK COUNTRY CUP AM - AM Sunday 8th July 2018 - WILLENHALL OPEN Dudley Golf Club. Turners Hill, Rowley Regis, TRANSPORT SHOW Willenhall Memorial Park, West Midlands, B65 9DP. Open to All Ages and Gender. Pinson Road, Willenhall, WV13 2PW. Willenhall Entry Fee: Visitors £80.00 per Team. DGC Members transport show takes place in Willenhall Memorial Park £5.00 Reduction Per player. Two’s Sweep payable on entertainment includes 200 x vintage and interesting the Day. Cheques made payable to Dudley Golf Club cars and vehicles, 1 box cart grass hill challenge, tyre Ltd. Enquiries To: The Professional at Dudley Golf Club, flip challenge, live music and beer tent as well as other Turners Hill, Rowley Regis, West Midlands, B65 9DP refreshments. Contact No: 07889 208051. Telephone Enquires 01384 233877. Professional Shop: The PGA Professional - Jamie Taylor or E-Mail Sunday 8th July 2018 - WILLENHALL SALVATION [email protected]. CLOSING DATE 1st ARMY With activities for young children. Willenhall July 2018. CONTACT THE PRO SHOP EARLY IF YOU Park, Band Stand. 3.00pm - 5.00pm NEED TO BOOK A BUGGY (£18) AS THERE IS A LIMITED NUMBER AVAILABLE. 62 Black Country Festival 2018 Inners_Layout 1 07/06/2018 15:45 Page 61
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Saturday 14th July 2018 - BLACK COUNTRY DAY run will include 1,500 runners. There will also be a AT BLEAKHOUSE LIBRARY Celebrate Black number of stalls showcasing the service and products Country Day at Bleakhouse Library with "Cum'n ave that are on offer to young people. Aswell as stalls sum taye n caerke in aar gardin" 12 noon - 2.00pm. Sandwell Council's youth service will be running a music stage where acts who have taken part in the Saturday 14th July 2018 - BLACK COUNTRY SHAPE your talent competition will be showcasing BOREDOM BUSTER Stone Cross Library. Family their talents. Admission: FREE. 11.00am - 5.00pm. friendly Black Country themed crafts and refreshments. 11.00am - 2.00pm. Saturday 14th July 2018 - SHELL CORNER FOOD & DRINK FESTIVAL Shell Corner, Long Lane, Halesowen, Saturday 14th July 2018 - BLACK COUNTRY B62 9DJ. Come to the inaugural Shell Corner Food TRAIL AND CRAFTS Wednesbury Library. Fun for all Festival launch on Saturday 14th July with the Shell Corner the family. 11.00am - 12 noon. Partnership Fund, raising table top sales. Followed by a day of the Shell Corner Cafes, Restaurants, bars and pubs Saturday 14th July 2018 - BLACK COUNTRY inviting the public to taste their food and drink. Tel: 0121 VARIETY SHOW Great Bridge Library. Our annual 422 2752. variety show returns with the best in local music, comedy and poetry. Admission is just £3, so book Saturday 14th July 2018 - STONE STREET, BLACK early on 0121 557 3277. 7.00pm - 9.30pm. COUNTRY FESTIVAL Stone Street, Dudley.
Saturday 14th July 2018 - CENTRAL LIBRARY Saturday 14th July 2018 - TIPTON LIBRARY BLACK BLACK COUNTRY DAY Celebrate Black Country Day COUNTRY FUN DAY Celebrate in style at our Black in style by coming to the heart of the Black Country in Country Fun Day - music, poetry, childrens crafts, face West Bromwich and have a cant, watch a series of painting and a whole lot more. 10.30am - 1.30pm. locally made films, or just come and tell a member of staff what makes the Black Country so great.10.00am Saturday 14th July 2018 - WORDSLEY FESTIVAL - 3.00pm. King George V Park.
Saturday 14th July - CHURCH TOURS Saturday 14th July 2018 - YARN STORMING St. Edmund's Church, Castle Street, Dudley. Church Blackheath Library. In collaboration with Blackheath open 10am to 4pm. Teas/coffees/cakes available. Community Together, Blackheath Library presents Yarn Displays. Church tours 11am: 1pm: 3pm. Restoration Storming! We will be wrapping local landmarks including works in progress - see architects designs - and the exterior of the library with wool and knitted crafts. In possibly have a say in future projects. Welcome support by the Heritage Lottery Fund. It is believed a addition there will be a variety of performances showing church has stood on this site for about 1,000 years; the cohesion of the local community and the with the current one rebuilt in 1724. togetherness which makes the Black Country so great. 10.00am - 4.00pm. Saturday 14th July 2018 - COLLA VOCE CHOIR Christchurch, Quarry Bank. Black Country chamber choir 14th - 15th July 2018 - 1940's WEEKEND Spend the Colla Voce, lead by MD Richard Ganner will perform a weekend in wartime Britain at Black Country Living programme of classical choral music, with a professional Museum. chamber orchestra. Works include Rutter 'Magnificat', Monteverdi 'beatus Vir' and Vivaldi 'Gloria'. Tickets: £10, 14th - 15th July 2018 - BLACK COUNTRY PRIDE book on website: www.collavocechoir.co.uk or Anne Kate Fitzgeralds, Stourbridge. A good mixture of Fisher 07759 136671. poetry, music and art fun for all.
Saturday 14th July 2018 - OH FEST Old Hill High 14th to 15th July 2018 - WOLVERHAMPTON FIESTA Street. Featuring Parades, Classic Cars, loads of Stalls & West Park, Wolverhampton. From 10.00am. Admission: Entertainment. OH Festival is fast becoming a ‘not to be £3 adults - £2 children. Giant Fun Fair, Tribute Acts: missed’ event. Rhianna (Sat), Beyonce (Sun) & One Direction. Clowns. Punch and Judy Shows. Hot Air Balloons. Saturday 14th July 2018 - SHAPE YOUTH FESTIVAL Sandwell Valley Country Park. The shape Sunday 15th July 2018 - FUNDAY Stevens Park team has again joined forces with the Albion Wollescote. Wollescote and Pedmore Community Foundation to put on the SHAPE Youth Festival and Association are holding their first ever Funday. Please 5k Blind Dave Colour Run at Sandwell Valley. Due to come and support this Bostin Event in your community. the success of last year's event, this year the colour For More Information call: Mitchell Bolton 07895 304338. 63 Black Country Festival 2018 Inners_Layout 1 07/06/2018 15:45 Page 62
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Sunday 15th July 2018 - SUMMER FEST Saturday 21st July 2018 - WITHIN WALKING Himley Hall, Dudley. 5.00pm - 10.00pm. Hosted by DISTANCE Langley Library. Launch of the 'Within Signal 107 and Mary Stevens Hospice. Walking Distance' project. The Friends of Langley Library have produced a map of Langley's historical Sunday 15th July 2018 - WALSALL CLASSIC CAR and unique landmarks that can be viewed at the library AND TRANSPORT SHOW Walsall Arboretum. 10.30am alongside an exhibition. 10.00am - 2.00pm. - 5.00pm. The Walsall Classic Car Show is a fantastic day out. A great Display of pre and post war classics, plus Sunday 22nd July 2018 - HELP some great commercial vehicles of yesteryear. Willenhall Park, Band Stand. 2.00pm - 4.00pm
Sunday 15th July 2018 - WILLENHALL SINGERS Friday 27th - Saturday 28th July 2018 - Willenhall Park, Band Stand. 2.00pm - 4.00pm. DISENCHANTED ARE YOU READY FOR DIS? Following their sold-out Midlands premiere production last Wednesday 18th July 2018 - ROMEO AND JULIET year; this July, as part of the Black Country Festival, Third Stourbridge Town Hall. 7.00pm. From The Right Productions bring Dennis T. Giacino’s hilarious off-Broadway hit “Disenchanted!” to the Thursday 19th - Sunday 22nd July 2018 - BUSHFEST Crestwood Theatre as part of their 2018 Sassitude Tour. COMEDY FESTIVAL 4 day outdoor comedy festival starting 7.00pm Thursday and Friday 2.00pm Saturday Friday 27th July 2018 - OUR TRACE Churchills Bar and and Sunday. Real ale and full bar available. A mixture of Entertainment Venue. 8 Walsall Street, Wednesbury, pro. and semi-pro. and new acts. free admission with acts WS10 9BZ. Its a funny woman in the posh frock! Come asking for bucket donations, diary it now - laugh later, and see the Multi Award Winning Comedienne. Doors please see bushcradley.co.uk for more info. open 7.00pm - bar open until 1.00am. Ticket: £5.00 each. Contact: 0121 556 3345 Ticket/enquiry line: 07958 Thursday 19th May - OPEN MIC NIGHT 716541. Katie Fitzgeralds, Stourbridge. Friday 27th July 2018 - TRAM DRIVING EXPERIENCE 19th July - 21st July 2018 - THE WIZARD OF OZ DAY Black Country Living Museum. Join our team to learn Lighthouse Theatre. Thursday - Friday 7.30pm all about the history and workings of trams in our Saturday - 2.30pm and 7.30pm. Adults £15 Child £13 collection. 4.00pm - 8.00pm. Tel: 0121 520 8054. Concessions £13. Box Office: 01536 414141. Sunday 29th July 2018 - COSELEY BLACK Thursday 19th July 2018 - TRANSPORT DRIVING COUNTRY DAY Castle Street, Roseville. EXPERIENCE EVENING Black Country Living Museum. Join our transport team for an evening of Sunday 29th July 2018 - YAM YAM ELVIS Vintage Cars. 4.30pm - 8.30pm Tel: 0121 520 8054 Wilenhall Park, Band Stand. 2.00pm - 4.00pm.
20th July 2018 - 2nd September 2018 - CHILDRENS ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– WORLD West Park, Wolverhampton. Contact: Harry Jones Funfairs via email on [email protected]. SPLASH PADS WALSALL Saturday 21st July 2018 - BRIAR FEST Bloxwich King George V Playing Fields High Street, Brierley Hill. 9.00am - 5.00pm. and Willenhall Memorial Park.
21st July 2018 - BUFFERY SUMMER IN THE PARK Weekends only up to July 22nd Buffery Park located in the heart of the Black country Daily from July 23rd - Sept 2nd industrial landscape, between Dudley and Netherton. The land was gifted by the Grazebrook family who Further details contact 01922 653344 owned all the mines and metal foundries in the local area. The event will consist of live entertainment from local ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– bands and Black Country Radio, live wrestling, classic cars, lots of bouncy castles, land train, bungee trampoline, K9 dog show (bring your pooch) trade stores, local fundraising encouraged, face paint, displays lots to do and see :) 11.00am - 5.00pm.
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The Black Country Festival 2018 Castle Writers Dudley www.castlewritersdudley.com
We are a diverse group of people who are all intent on improving and exploring our creative writing abilities through constructive criticism and inspiration of fellow writers. We have among our ranks, poets, short story writers, novelists, essayists and playwrights. Come join Castle Writers Dudley on Saturday 14th July 2018 from 11am - 5pm, in Stone Street for some poetry and stories. Thank you
We hope you have found this a useful and history with it. You will see it begin to catch on interesting guide to this year’s Black Country in other areas, proud of their roots, which is Festival. It only remains for me to say thanks great. But remember it started here in The to those who have helped make the Black Country. And you started it. magazine and the festival the success that We at The Black Country Festival we all hope it will be. Committee have been working with a huge Firstly - huge thanks to all the amount of people in an attempt to co-ordinate advertisers. Also to National Express West the fantastic variety and wealth of events that Midlands, Dudley Building Society, BBC in the proud people invest their time and energy the Midlands, BBC Radio WM, Dudley into producing in July. The very nature of the College, Free Radio and Black Country festival means that it belongs to the people Radio. and, as a community event, it is as fast moving Secondly a massive thank you to all and fluid as the communities that produce it. the people who have come together and given Which is something we are proud of and we their time and energy to this fantastic idea of are touched by the passion and enthusiasm celebrating our history, heritage and future in shown. the month of July. The fact that MP’s and We have tried to treat every event Councillors from across all parties leave politics and celebration with an even hand but at the door to support the festival is a inevitably there will be things we will have testament to the spirit of cooperation and fair missed out. If we have not included your event play it engenders. or celebration we apologise. Please head to our website or our facebook page and we will The biggest thanks of all, however, is attempt to remedy this oversight swiftly. to you, the people of The Black Country. This Next year we aim to make the festival Festival belongs to you, celebrate it however even bigger with support from The Black you like. Attend some or none of the larger Country Consortium. events. Celebrate at home with family and So let’s hear from you if you are friends or at a sports event. Celebrate abroad organising an event in 2019, especially in if you can’t make it home. But celebrate. This Sandwell, Walsall or Wolverhampton. idea started in our area and we have made The Black Country Festival Committee
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The Black Country Festival 2018 Mayor’s Welcome
This will be the fifth year of the Black Country Festival and more and more people are taking part every year.
We are expecting thousands of people again to support and enjoy the events taking place across the whole of the Black Country including Dudley borough.
Black Country folk are extremely proud of their heritage and love to celebrate.
As both Mayor and as a resident of this borough I am keen to take part in activities during the festival and to meet many people during my civic duties.
The whole of July will be packed with a range of events including carnivals, music, comedy, fun days, sporting events and the big day itself on the 14 July, Black Country Day.
Make sure you come and have a bostin’ time and get along to some of the community events near you. Have fun.
Councillor Alan Taylor Mayor of Dudley
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