Our guide to what you can do in and around the borough this weekend

Wild Cards - Customer Care, Samarkand, Open Season, Littleborough Scarecrow Festival 2022, The Carpenters Experience, Back… On Broadway, Robbie Williams, Dying to Talk, Jolly Josh 5th Anniversary Open Day, The Oasis Experience, Poetry in the park, Road, Fire Station Open Day, Rochdale Gramophone Society, Fireground Museum Open Day, Vigil for Callum Riley, Heywood Station Car Boot Sale Sundays, Rochdale Ramblers – Saturday Walks, Exhibition: Rochdale artists - Mixed Media - lots to do in and around the borough this weekend.

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• Events happening all weekend

Fireground Museum Open Day – Fireground, Maclure Road
Open 10am - 4pm, Friday 23 and Saturday 24 September

Fire Museum attractions are on show including historic and recent day artifacts.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/70017/

Gallery Exhibition: Rochdale Artists - Mixed Media –  Littleborough Coach House, Saturday 24 August, 10am – 3pm & Sunday 25 September, 11.30am – 2.30pm

This exhibition consists of Rochdale Artists - Mixed Media.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/69951/

Littleborough Scarecrow Festival 2022 – Littleborough, Friday 23, Saturday 24 & Sunday 25 September

Grab a map and head out into the village on your scarecrow trail!

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/70592/

Wild Cards – Customer Care, Smarkand, Open Season – The Curtain Theatre, Friday 23 & Saturday 24 September, 7.30pm

Three new Talking Heads-style plays.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/70503/

Road - Oldham Coliseum, Friday 23 – Sunday 25 September

Road invites you to spend an evening with the residents of a nameless Lancashire street in 1986.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/70197/

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• Friday 23 September

Poetry in the Park – Hare Hill House, 10am

6 poetry workshops held at Hare Hill House, Littleborough.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/70117/

Rochdale Gramophone Society – St George’s Church Hall, 2pm

Second session of the month.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/70509/

Vigil for Callum Riley – Darnhill Library, 6pm

Organised to give the whole community a place to grieve of the loss of Callum.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/70607/

The Oasis Experience – Empire Rochdale, 8pm

Tribute to Oasis.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/70262/

For a full list of Friday’s events see the Rochdale Online Events Diary:

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/search?searchvalue=23-09-2022&searchtype=date

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• Saturday 24 September

Rochdale Ramblers – Saturday Walks – Witch Way to Barley, 10am

Walk distance = 10 miles.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/70347/

Jolly Josh 5th Anniversary Open Day – Ensor Mill, 10am

Celebrate the local charity’s 5th Anniversary and the official opening of its brand-new, purpose-built Hydrotherapy Pool.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/70410/

Dying to Talk – St Aidan’s Church Hall, 2pm

Today's session is Will, Legacies And All That led by Donna Myers Solicitor and Diocesan Registrar.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/70221/

The Carpenters Experience – Heywood Civic Centre, 7pm

Tribute to The Carpenters.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/70173/

Back on Broadway – Middleton Arena, 7pm

Carnaby School of Dance are returning with a plethora of Group Dances to tracks from sell-out musicals.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/70179/

Robbie Williams – Empire Rochdale, 8pm

UK’s number one lookalike full band tribute to Robbie Williams.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/70263/

For a full list of Saturday’s events see the Rochdale Online Events Diary:

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/search?searchvalue=24-09-2022&searchtype=date

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• Sunday 25 September

Heywood Station Car Boot Sale Sundays – Heywood Station, 8.30am

Car boot Sundays are back.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/70568/

Open Day – Littleborough Fire Station, 10am

See real fire vehicles and meet your local firefighters.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/70491/

For a full list of Sunday’s events see the Rochdale Online Events Diary:

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/search?searchvalue=25-09-2022&searchtype=date

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