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quarterly on the first Saturday of the month. Every Thursday Every fourth Friday in the month Time: 11am–1pm Open Mic Comedy Warrens Hall Nature Hollybush Pub, Conservation Volunteers Info: 0121 569 4955, 53 Newton Lane, Bumblehole Visitor’s Centre, oldbury_library@sandwell.gov.uk Cradley Heath, B64 5EA Windmill End, Netherton, Open mic comedy evening for DY2 9HU 2020 all performers from comedians, Warrens Hall Nature Reserve Wednesdays 2.30pm–4.30pm th May Reading Group day 10 musicians, singers and much boasts wonderful scenery. We - Sun 2020 more. Acts need to pre-book. Cradley Heath library, Upper High th May 5th May need volunteers to help to look riday 8 nday 2 Time: 8.30pm–11pm after the site. Street, Cradley Heath, B64 5JU arm - F ay - Mo ge Mill F y 23rd M Price: FREE Time: 10am–1pm Readers Aloud is an adult For aturda reading group with a difference. arm - S 0pm Info: www.bushcradley.co.uk; Price: FREE ll Park F - 4.3 Listen and read to others. New Sandwe 10am [email protected]; Info: 0121 588 5842 0794 959 4484 members welcome Time: 11am–1pm Third Sunday of each month Info: 0121 569 4926, First Sunday of the month Forge Mill Farm cradleyheath_library@ sandwell.gov.uk Cycling in Sandwell Family Held on the third Sunday of Bike Rides each month at Forge Mill Farm, Sandwell Valley Rides where there will be stalls selling Learn to Swim with Saddle up and join Cycling in food, plants and hand-made Sandwell Leisure Trust Sandwell’s Family Bike Rides. All crafts. rides follow paths or minor roads Time: 10am–4pm Various times and days Swimming lessons for all ages and last between two and three Info: 0121 553 0220 hours. Children under 16 should and abilities from five years be accompanied by an adult. to adult. Parent and toddler and Cycling in Sandwell does not one-to-one sessions subject Wednesdays 2.30pm–4.30pm accept liability for loss, damage to availability. Learn to swim Reading Group or any injury incurred. Please in a safe and warm environment Cradley Heath library, Upper ensure your bike is roadworthy. with our friendly and fully qualified High Street, Cradley Heath We recommend you bring along instructors. Book now for your B64 5JU a drink and snack. Meet at the 30 minute lesson. Contact any Readers Aloud is an adult War Memorial, Dartmouth Park. Sandwell Leisure Trust swimming Time: Starts at 10am reading group with a difference centre reception (shown below) Price: FREE Listen and read to others Info: 0300 012 0121, New members welcome Leisure Pass discounts available Info: 0800 011 4656 Time: 10am–4pm at www.slt-leisure.co.uk Info: 0121 569 4926, Sandwell Leisure Trust cradleyheath_library@ Swimming Centres: 5 March – 2 April sandwell.gov.uk 200 Million Minutes • Langley Swimming Centre, Reading Challenge 2020 Vicarage Rd, Oldbury, B68 8HS Sign up at • Smethwick Swimming Centre, First Saturday of each month www.200millionminutes.org Thimblemill Rd, Smethwick, Ole Berry Book Club to take part in the latest B67 5QT Oldbury Library, Jack Judge Entry Fees apply at both Farms Reading Challenge of 2020 • Tipton Leisure Centre, Alexandra House, 10 Halesowen Street Road, Tipton, DY4 8TA Info: Please see our website for more Oldbury, B69 2AJ • Haden Hill Leisure Centre, Barrs www.200millionminutes.org details Ole Berry Book Club will meet Road, Cradley Heath, B64 7HA

Sot’s Hole Health Walk Every Thursday Access guide Galton Valley Countryside Walks 10.30am–11.30am If you have any questions about your visit, If you enjoy walking in the Meet at Sandwell Park Farm please phone the site for more information. Pumping Station countryside and like to meet new people, then our free healthy walks Central Library Tipton Sports Academy PO Box 2377 Sandwell Council House are for you. Lasting for about Thimblemill Brook High Street, West Bromwich B70 8DZ Wednesbury Oak Road, Tipton DY4 0BS 0121 569 4904 0121 502 5534 Oldbury Open Days an hour, they take in some of Health Walk B69 3DE Sandwell’s best countryside. With Third Wednesday of each month 10am–11am Web: www.sandwell.gov.uk The canal museum tells the story of the a designated leader at the front Forge Mill Farm Warley Woods Community Trust Email: marketing_publicity@ and the rear of the group, you’re Meet at Thimblemill Library Forge Lane, West Bromwich B71 3DX and Golf Course sandwell.gov.uk Galton Valley canal system and the people free to walk at your own pace. Info: 0121 429 2039 0121 538 7210 The Pavilion, 101 Lightwoods Hill, Smethwick B67 5ED that lived and worked on it. With a guided Trust office: 0121 420 1061 walk to the Old Smethwick Engine House Sandwell Stride Walks Haden Hill House Museum and Park Sheepwash Local Nature at 12pm. A great way to get some exercise Reserve Halesowen Road, Cradley Heath B64 7JU and enjoy the fresh air at some 01384 569444 Wednesbury Museum & Art Gallery Great Bridge Library, Holyhead Road, Wednesbury WS10 7DF live work explore of Sandwell’s lovely parks and Sheepwash Lane, Great 0121 556 0683 Mainline Canal off, Brasshouse Lane, Smethwick nature reserves. All walks are Bridge, Tipton DY4 7JF Bromwich Hall, The Manor House led by a trained walk leader. Working in partnership with Time: 10am–3pm Fridays. Walk in this beautiful Hall Green Road, West Bromwich B71 2EA Sandwell Leisure Trust All ages and abilities welcome. nature reserve. Distance: 3 miles 0121 553 0759 Wednesbury Leisure Centre Price: FREE Refreshments available on many Time: 10.30am Oak House Museum High Bullen WS10 7HP Info: www.sandwell.gov.uk/joininmuseums, walks. Price: FREE Oak Road, West Bromwich B70 8HJ 0300 012 0121 0121 553 0759 0121 556 0683 Priory Woods Health Walk Info: Mike Whale: 0121 588 Every Tuesday 5068 or Terry Baker: 01922 West Bromwich Town Hall 10.30am–11.30am 620 785 Oldbury Rep High Street, West Bromwich Meet at Sandwell Park Farm Timetables for full programme Barlow Theatre, Langley B69 4SP of activities at leisure centres 0121 552 2761 can be picked up from centres, There is loads to do during the or downloaded online Oak House, Manor House and Haden www.slt-leisure.co.uk Hill House & Museum are listed buildings Sandwell Museum Service Sandwell Council House which restrict adaptations to improve For information about activities school holidays in Sandwell! Freeth Street, Oldbury B69 3DE access. Please contact the site directly for young people visit: if you have any questions. www.justyouth.org.uk Events and Activities Wednesbury Museum & Art Gallery Sandwell Family Information Service can Sandwell Park Farm now has a lift to the first floor galleries. Salter’s Lane, West Bromwich B71 4BG For information about libraries please advise you on childcare and local services/ 0121 569 3069/3070 visit www.sandwell.gov.uk/libraries events that are available in Sandwell.

When you see these symbols, www.bctouring.co.uk If you need a childminder, day nursery, pre‑school you can expect: playgroup, holiday play scheme or out‑of‑school club for your child/or children, or you want to find out about a local Key to events Wheelchair access service/event, give us a call on 0121 569 4914 or visit Adults Assistance dogs welcome www.sandwell.gov.uk/holidays for further information. Children and family Accessible parking Young people All information is correct at time Accessible toilet of going to press in March 2020, Arts but changes may happen that are HOLIDAY FUN AT THE LIBRARY Staffed reception beyond our control. We suggest Countryside that you telephone the venue for Join Sandwell libraries for a packed programme Visual impairment information prior to setting off. of events and activities for all the family. Check out Find out about Sandwell museums upcoming events Heritage and local history Assistive hearing Printed on elemental chlorine www.discoversandwell.co.uk for more details. and activities at www.sandwell.gov.uk/joininmuseums Sport and leisure free paper, sourced from fully Refreshments sustainable forests. facebook.com/DiscoverSandwell Visit www.discoversandwell.co.uk/whatson Spring 2020 @discoversandwell @SandwellCouncil for more information about events and activities

‘A Store At War’ was published last year. The follow-up, ‘Wartime March for the Shop Girls’, came out in April Wednesday 8 April 2020 Monday 13 April 2020 Saturday 18 April 2020 May Sunday 10 May 2020 Wednesday 27 May 2020 January 2019. Easter Crafts Easter Egg Roll The Chocolate 5k and VE Day Celebrations Quiet Hour Dragon Invasion Bromwich Hall, The Manor Warley Woods, Haden Hill Museum, Bromwich Hall, The Manor House, Saturday 14 March 2020 Time: 2.30pm Wednesday 1 April 2020 10k Sandwell Saturday 2 May 2020 House, West Bromwich Upper St Mary’s entrance, Sandwell Valley Country Park, Cradley Heath West Bromwich Confessions of a Cockney Price: FREE Roll up, roll up Dawn Chorus Walk Barclay Road, Smethwick West Bromwich Temple Dancer For info: brandhall_library@ Wednesbury Museum and Why not get crafty and hop along The Pavilion, 101 Lightwoods Come and join us for our Enjoy our dragon-themed event Thimblemill Library, Smethwick sandwell.gov.uk; 0121 569 4924 Art Gallery, Wednesbury to make some fantastic Easter The Annual Easter event at Runners can arrive for the event Hill, Smethwick B67 5ED commemorations of the 75th before the crowds arrive for an Crafts with us. There will also be Warley Woods. You can take from 9.30am and take part in lots anniversary of VE Day, lots of hour session suitable for those In this funny and visually stunning An exciting new exhibition opens A guided walk at dawn in Warley quizzes and trails to take part in part in the competition to roll your of fun games and activities before fun and nostalgia for all ages. with invisible disabilities. Get the one-man show, Shane Shambhu showcasing images, objects Woods with Matt Hadlington for fun. (hard boiled) egg as far as you starting the chase for chocolate. chance to meet Flame the dragon reveals the secret life he kept and curiosities from circus and explaining the dawn chorus and Haden Old Hall will also be open Saturday 21 March 2020 can. There is also a painted egg and take part in calm activities from his school friends growing fairground life and culture; from side Time: 1m–4pm Time: 10k runners will go off at identifying its vocal participants. for the first time this year as will The Whiskey Poets competition and an Easter trail inside the house. Please call us up in the cultural melting pot of show acts to the main event, from Price: FREE 10.30am; 5k runners will go off the Tea Room. Blackheath Library, Rowley Regis through the Woods. Includes Time: 5am to let us know your individual East London. Follow Shane’s performing brass band seals to at 11am The Steve King Big Band will be For info: 0121 588 2985 a roll for adults too. Meeting point, Price: £3 adults; £1 children needs so we can try our best transformation from ‘fat kid’ to The Whiskey Poets are an alt. dancing elephants, from menageries Price: 5k Registration: family performing throughout the day upper St Mary’s Entrance to the to accommodate them. Must international performer as he rips country-blues outfit fronted by to fun fairs, come along from April ticket £45 (2 adults and up to 3 For info: 0121 420 1061; alongside costumed characters. internationally bestselling author park on Barclay Road, Smethwick. www.warleywoods.org.uk book in advance. up ideas of race, language and to explore the wonderful world of children); adult £16; child £12 Time: 12noon–4pm R J Ellory and featuring Martin Time: 11am–12noon culture in a bedazzling mix circus and fairground history. Free Wednesday 8, Thursday 9, Time: 11am–1pm (aged 5-16 years); under 5’s £2 Price: Free entry (small Smith (formerly of ELO). Price: £3.50 of theatre, dance and film. entry runs throughout 2020. Thursday 16 and Friday Price: £1 per entry 10k Registration: adults £20; charge for some activities) child £15 (aged 5-16 years); Time: 7.30pm 17 April 2020 For info: 0121 588 2985; Time: 7.30pm Time: 11am–4pm For info: 0121 420 1061; For info: 01384 569 444 Price: £7; concessionary £4 Price: £6.50 in advance; £8.50 Price: FREE Children’s Easter Holiday www.warleywoods.org.uk For info: 0121 752 8779; www.ticketsource.co.uk/ on the door Craft Workshops www.birminghamhospice.org.uk/ themanorhousemuseum For info: thimblemill_library@ For info: 0121 556 0683, Haden Hill House Museum, Event/the-chocolate-5km-10km- sandwell.gov.uk; 0121 569 4943 For info: blackheath_library@ www.sandwell.gov.uk/ Cradley Heath sandwell sandwell.gov.uk; 0121 569 4920 joininmuseums Sunday 10 May 2020 Drop-in and have a go at our Sunday 3 May 2020 Mabel’s Vintage Fair Easter and spring-themed Green Man Celebration Bromwich Hall, The Manor House, Monday 16 March 2020 activities and workshops. Monday 13 April 2020 Wednesday 22 April 2020 West Bromwich Tuesday 24 March 2020 Oak House Museum, History of Patent Shaft Saturday 4 April 2020 Time: 11am–3pm Ron Popple Balloon Disco Valuation Day West Bromwich Visit an array of stalls selling vintage, Tipton Library, Tipton Local History Fayre Sensory Circus Exhibition Oak House Museum, Price: £2 Haden Hill House Museum, Welcome in spring with our fourth homemade and local produce. Smethwick Library, Smethwick Wednesbury Museum and West Bromwich A history of Wednesbury’s Patent Cradley Heath annual Green Man Celebration. Time: 10.30am–3.30pm Guest speakers and a range of Art Gallery, Wednesbury For info: 01384 569444; Shaft, one of Britain’s greatest Join Ron Popple in the classroom Fieldings Auctioneers of Enjoy historical activities in the Price: Free entry (small stall holders, book signings and www.museums.sandwell.gov.uk Wednesday 27 May 2020 steel works. To mark World Autism Awareness for balloon modelling fun. Stourbridge will be at Haden house, live music, Morris Dancers, charge for some activities) talks throughout the day. Dragon Invasion Time: 2.30pm Day on 2 April come and enjoy Time: 12noon, 1pm and 2pm Hill House Museum to offer family entertainment and more. For info: 01384 569 444 Bromwich Hall, The Manor House, Price: FREE Time: 10am–3.30pm sensory activities and quiet Price: £1 per person valuations on a range of items Time: 12noon–4pm West Bromwich Price: FREE spaces and activities around our Thursday 9 April 2020 including ceramics, furniture, For info: 0121 569 4944; For info: 0121 553 0759, Price: FREE For info: 0121 569 4940 new circus exhibition opening day. Clown School with glass and jewellery. Were dragons a made-up thing of [email protected] Ron Popple www.ticketsource.co.uk/ For info: 0121 553 0759 the past or are they as real as the Time: 2pm–5pm Time: 10.30am–3.30pm Saturday 16 May 2020 sandwell-museums-and-arts legends say? Find out as Flame Price: FREE Wednesbury Museum and Price: £1 per valuation Plant Sale Art Gallery, Wednesbury The Pavilion, 101 Lightwoods the dragon and her friends visit Tuesday 17 March 2020 Wednesday 25 March 2020 For info: 0121 556 0683, For info: 01384 569444; our grounds for a fun filled day of Book onto our circus skills Wednesday 6 May 2020 Hill, Smethwick B67 5ED Local History Fayre An Afternoon with Roger Ellory www.sandwell.gov.uk/ www.museums.sandwell.gov.uk myth busting, dragon 101, crazy joininmuseums activities or just drop in and paint Tuesday 14, Wednesday 15 Find a Career Event Wednesbury Library Central Library, West Bromwich Our Warley Woods annual plant crafts and much more flaming hot a clown face or enjoy crafts and and Thursday 16 April 2020 West Bromwich Library, sale is becoming an institution. Guest speakers and a range of R J Ellory was first published in trails book, also do egg painting Earth and Climate fun! All activities except crafts and 316 High St, West Bromwich We will have on sale donated stall holders, book signings and the UK in 2003 and has now and trails. A charge for clown Awareness Week Saturday 25 April 2020 bouncy castle are included in the B70 8DZ plants and plants grown especially talks throughout the day. released fifteen novels. His latest Monday 6 April 2020 school and craft activities, visit Oak House Museum, Crafts and Trails for price. Book in advance. Careers, jobs and apprenticeships. in our bottle greenhouse. Advice Time: 10am ‘Three Bullets’ was published Easter Trails & Quizzes our website for details. West Bromwich St George’s Day Time: 12noon–4pm Bromwich Hall, The Manor House, Time: 12noon–2pm on growing your own plants will Price: FREE in March 2019. Roger is the Time: 11am–3pm Come along to Oak House and Wednesbury Museum and Price: £3.50 West Bromwich Price: FREE be available too. winner of thirteen international Price: Free entry (small charge have a go at junk modelling and Art Gallery, Wednesbury For info: 0121 569 4945 Time: 10am–12noon For info: 0121 588 2985; literary awards and his books are Hunt through the house and for clown school and craft trails to learn more about being Decorate a sword or shield For info: www.ticketsource.co.uk/ Price: FREE entry available in twenty-six languages. grounds to complete our Easter activities) kind to our planet. or enjoy our other knights and www.connexions.sandwell.co.uk; themanorhousemuseum themed trails and quizzes. Time: 2.30pm Time: 11am–3pm princess crafts and enjoy the 0121 569 3587 For info: 0121 420 1061; Wednesday 18 March 2020 For info: 0121 556 0683, Price: FREE Time: 11am–3pm Price: 50p–£3 dragon trail. www.warleywoods.org.uk Pass the Parcel Poetry www.sandwell.gov.uk/ Price: FREE joininmuseums Time: 2–4pm Wednesday 27 and Great Bridge Library, Great Barr For info: central_library@ For info: 0121 553 0759 sandwell.gov.uk; 0121 569 4904 For info: 0121 588 2985 Price: Free entry; 50p–£2 Friday 8 May 2020 Thursday 28 May 2020 Poets, Prattlers and for craft activities VE Day Tea Dance Nature Week Pandemonialists – professional For info: 0121 556 0683, Bromwich Hall, The Manor House, Wednesbury Museum and poets perform a free-ranging Saturday 11 April 2020 Wednesday 15 April 2020 Tuesday 7 April 2020 www.sandwell.gov.uk/ West Bromwich Art Gallery, Wednesbury event showcasing their own Easter Trail Circus Crafts Zoo Lab joininmuseums Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of Enjoy our nature themed week individual styles and poetry. Sit Wednesbury Museum and Wednesbury Museum and Monday 18 May 2020 back and enjoy as they pass the Oak House Museum, Art Gallery, Wednesbury VE Day at Bromwich Hall with live with activities, crafts and trails. Art Gallery, Wednesbury music and dancing, and tea and Looked After – Leaving Care parcel between themselves and West Bromwich Drop in and have a go at our Time: 11am–3pm Join us for circus themed crafts cake. Hosted by the Friends of Tipton Library Unity Walk, take it in turns to captivate you Join Zoo Lab for 45-minute Easter trail and win a small Saturday 25 April 2020 Price: Free entry; 50p–£2.50 and trails. the Museum. Owen St, Tipton DY4 8QL with their words. Where the music educational animal handling Easter egg. With Easter craft St George’s Day event for craft activities To encourage looked after, leaving stops no-one knows! session in the Oak House of the day. Time: 11am–3pm Dartmouth Park, West Bromwich Time: 7pm–10pm care young people to explore For info: 0121 588 2985; Time: 7pm classroom. Booking essential. Price: Free entry; 50p–£2 A huge animatronic dragon, Price: Free entry Time: 2pm–5pm leaning/employment www.ticketsource.co.uk/ Price: £3; concessionary £1.50 for craft activities a hapless bunch of knights Time: sessions at 11am, Price: Free entry; £1 Easter For info: 0121 588 2985; opportunities. themanorhousemuseum Thursday 26 March 2020 12noon, 1pm and 2pm trail; 50p- £2 for crafts For info: 0121 556 0683, performing street theatre, a fire www.ticketsource.co.uk/ For info: 0121 569 4930 Time: 12noon–2pm An Evening with Mike Gayle Price: child £3.50; adult £1 www.sandwell.gov.uk/ eater, circus skills and more. thefriendsofthemanorhousemuseum For info: 0121 556 0683, Price: FREE Great Barr Library, Great Barr joininmuseums Time: 12noon–4pm For info: 0121 553 0759 www.sandwell.gov.uk/ Thursday 28 May 2020 Mike Gayle was born and raised Price: Free admission (with a For info: 0121 569 3587 joininmuseums Dragon Invasion: Movie Day Thursday 19 March 2020 in Birmingham. Mike became small charge for some activities) www.connexions.sandwell.co.uk Saturday 9 May 2020 Bromwich Hall, The Manor House, The Last Quiz Night on Earth a full-time novelist in 1997. To Thursday 16 April 2020 For info: 0121 556 0683, West Bromwich Thimblemill Library, Smethwick date Mike is the author of twelve Tuesday 7 and Tea and Bunting Greatest Showman www.sandwell.gov.uk/ Hiccup, a Viking, must kill a It’s the end of the world, the last novels and his books have Wednesday 8 April 2020 Sunday 12 April 2020 Wednesbury Museum and Themed Party joininmuseums dragon to mark his passage into night on earth. An asteroid is been translated into over thirty Animal Crafts and Trails Easter Crafts and Trail Art Gallery, Wednesbury Wednesbury Museum and manhood and be initiated into his heading straight for us. Fancy languages. Oak House Museum, Oak House Museum, See photos of wartime Art Gallery, Wednesbury tribe. However, he ends up doing going out with a bang? It’s the Time: 7.30pm West Bromwich West Bromwich Wednesbury, enjoy a cuppa and Come along and join the school Sunday 26 April 2020 a tasty treat and young visitors the exact opposite by befriending final countdown. Landlady Kathy Price: £3; concessionary £1.50 Come and enjoy animal-themed Take part in an Easter trail holiday fun with our Greatest St George’s Day Crafts can make flags and bunting. a deadly Night Fury. Book in invites you to the last quiz night on crafts and trails at the Oak House. around the grounds of Oak Monday 25 May 2020 For info: 0121 569 4929 Showman party, with party Oak House Museum, advance. Sweet treat packs £3. earth with Quizmaster Rav. He’s Time: 11am–3pm House and complete an Easter- Time: 2pm–4pm Henry V – The Festival Players games, dancing and activities, West Bromwich Time: 11am the host with the most. But with Price: 50p–£3 themed craft to take home. Price: FREE Bromwich Hall, The Manor House, time ticking, some unexpected crafts and trails. Join us at Oak House for West Bromwich Price: FREE Time: 2pm–5pm For info: 0121 556 0683, guests turn up out of the blue. For info: 0121 553 0759 Time: 1pm–3pm St Georges Day crafts. Saturday 28 March 2020 Price: 50p–£3 www.sandwell.gov.uk/ After a rebellious and spirited For info: 0121 588 2985 Expect the unexpected right until Price: Free entry; £2 per child The Ragged Trousered Time: 2pm–3pm joininmuseums youthhood, carousing in the the bitter end. Price includes food For info: 0121 553 0759 to enter party Price: 50p–£3 taverns of London, Prince Hal – booking is essential. Philanthropists Central Library, West Bromwich Wednesday 8 April 2020 For info: 0121 556 0683, For info: 0121 553 0759 takes on the responsibility of Friday 29 May 2020 Time: 8pm www.sandwell.gov.uk/ Kingship and leads his troops, of Actor Neil Gore brings this Clown Eggs Dragon Invasion: Crafty Friday Price: £8 joininmuseums Saturday 9 May 2020 low and high station, across the humorous and absorbing book to Wednesbury Museum and Monday 13 April 2020 Bromwich Hall, The Manor House, Mind, Body & Spirit Fayre Channel to do battle with the For info: thimblemill_library@ life in his one-man magic lantern Art Gallery, Wednesbury Easter Celebrations West Bromwich Wednesday 27 April to Friday Bromwich Hall, The Manor House, French at Agincourt. Follow the sandwell.gov.uk; 0121 569 4943 show. Based on the 1914 novel, Haden Hill House Museum Come along and get crafty with Real clowns have to register their 1 May 2020 West Bromwich charismatic King Henry the Fifth the story is set in the building Come and join us for an Dragon themed crafts and take part clown faces by painting an egg. Thursday 16 and Friday Discover Apprenticeships Join Lotus Wolf Events for their in this stirring tale of leadership, trades of Edwardian England afternoon of Easter activities for in our just for fun trails and quizzes. Create your own clown face on 17 April 2020 Sandwell Council House, Mind, Body and Spirit fair inside bravery, humour, and love; two Friday 20 March 2020 where painters and decorators all the family, including Easter an egg to take home, also school Flower Wreath Workshops Oldbury, B69 3DE our 750 year old building. Get in hours of exhilarating entertainment Time: 12noon–4pm struggle to maintain themselves Egg rolling, quizzes, trails and An Afternoon with Joanna Toye holiday crafts and trails. Haden Hill House Museum, Series of events aimed at promoting touch with your inner self and for a summer’s evening. Price: FREE Brandhall Library, Oldbury and their families. workshops. Cradley Heath Time: 11am–3pm specific occupational areas. browse an array of unique stalls Time: 5pm For info: 0121 588 2985 Time: 7.30pm Time: 12noon-4pm Jo worked as a radio and Price: Free entry; Create a Spring flower wreath Time: 10am–4pm underneath our old beams. Price: £14 in advance; £15 on Price: £5.50 in advance; Price: Free entry (small television scriptwriter for The 50p–£3 for activities from felt and ribbons. Price: FREE Time: 11am–4pm the door; concessionary £12; £7.50 at the door charge for some activities) Archers, Crossroads, Family Time: 11am–12pm Price: FREE £13 on the door For info: 0121 556 0683, For info: 0121 569 3587, Affairs, Doctors and EastEnders For info: 0121 569 4904, www.sandwell.gov.uk/ For info: 01384 569444; Price: £5 www.connexions.sandwell.co.uk For info: 0121 588 2985 For info: 0121 588 2985; for over thirty years before turning [email protected] joininmuseums www.sandwell.gov.uk/museums to novel-writing. For info: 01384 569 444 www.crbo.co.uk/henryv