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

Ladies Fashion Show and Pop-Up Show, Untold Stories of Coal-Mining Communities, Friday Night Social Snooker, Stone Cold Murder, The Rat Pack, Comedy Night at the Old Court Room, Visit Fireground Museum, Spring Market, Bowlee Car Boot Sale and Market, Ellenroad Engine House Open Day, Creative Easter, Littleborough Spring Market, West End Magic, Rochdale Ramblers – Saturday and Sunday Walks, Exhibitions: Mixed Media and A Tall Order! - lots to do in and around the borough this weekend.

---

• Events happening all weekend

Stone Cold Murder - The Curtain Theatre, Friday 31 March and Saturday 1 April

Newlyweds Robert and Olivia Chappell have bought a small hotel in the English Lake District. Thriller by James Cawood.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/71819/

Visit Fireground Museum – Fireground, Maclure Road
Open 10am - 4pm, Friday 31 March and Saturday 1 April

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

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/71563/

Exhibition: A Tall Order! – Rochdale Art Gallery in the 1980s – Touchstones, Friday 31 March and Saturday 1 April, 10am – 5pm

A Tall Order! is an invigorating look at the artwork made and exhibited at Rochdale Art Gallery during the 1980s by a generation of artists, many of whom were women, young, working class and Black.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/71479/

Gallery Exhibitions: Mixed Media – Littleborough Coach House, Saturday 1 April, 10am – 3pm

Geoff Butterworth - Mixed Media and Rita Stead - Mixed Media.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/71579/

---

• Friday 31 March

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

Today's title is Members Afternoon.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/71517/

Ladies Fashion Show and Pop-up Shop – Zen Internet, 6.30pm

Shop your favourite high street brands at 50% or more in aid of Bleakholt.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72031/

Untold Stories of Coal-Mining Communities – Whitworth Library, 7pm

Whitworth Library welcomes the untold, unheard and previously unknown stories of coal-mining communities.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72160/

Friday Night Social Snooker – Alkrington & Providence United Reformed Church, 7pm

Very gentle and sociable snooker/billiards.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/71855/

The Rat Pack - Middleton Arena, 7.30pm

A perfect night’s entertainment with Rat Pack – Swingin' at the Sands!

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/71487/

Ace Lips Events: Comedy Show at the Old Court Room - The Old Court Room, doors 7.45pm

Another fantastic line up sees some of the very best on the circuit here in Rochdale.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/71657/

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

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/search?searchvalue=31-03-2023&searchtype=date

---

• Saturday 1 April

Spring Market – Smalley Hall, 10am

Stalls, raffles and refreshments.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72032/

Rochdale Ramblers – Saturday Walks – Over the Edge, 1pm

Walk distance = 5 miles.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72129/

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

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/search?searchvalue=01-04-2023&searchtype=date

---

• Sunday 2 April

Bowlee Car Boot Sale and Market – Bowlee Community Park, 7am

One of the biggest car boot sales and markets in Greater Manchester.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72099/

Rochdale Ramblers – Sunday Walks – Around the Shedden Hushings, 10am

Moderate walk, distance = 10 miles.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72130/

Ellenroad Engine House Open Day – Ellenroad Engine House, Steam Museum, 11am

Monthly open day.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/71423/

Creative Easter – Star Tree Studio, 11am

Original gifts by local maker, paintings, prints, jewellery, leather goods, cards etc.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/71941/

Littleborough Spring Market – Hare Hill House, 11am

Local businesses will tempt you with their cakes, jams, meats, beautiful clothes and accessories.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72039/

West End Magic – Heywood Civic Centre, 2.30pm

An exciting, family-friendly show offering an amazing mixture of magic, comedy and variety acts.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/71493/

Live Entertainment – Rochdale Catholic Club, 6.30pm

The Fantastic Duo Stu & Chris.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72164/

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

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/search?searchvalue=02-04-2023&searchtype=date

---

Submit an Event

You can advertise an event for free on Rochdale Online, just submit the details to us via our website:

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/submit

Search our Events section

Search through all the events being held across the Rochdale borough (Rochdale, Littleborough, Middleton & Heywood) on our local event listings: www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/