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

Dying Matters Week, Fire-Up Open Day, A Night of Mediumship with Leonie Lovatt, Fleetwood Mac Tribute The Chain, Riverside Artisan Market, Heywood Model Railway Group Open Day, Rochdale Music Society Concert: Clare Hammond Piano, Whitworth Skyline Walk 2023, A Bit of Lanky Panky, Active Living Social, Bowlee Car Boot Sale and Market, Visit Firegound Museum, Rochdale Ramblers – Saturday and Sunday Walks, Exhibition: Prints & Acrylics and Phenix Textiles - lots to do in and around the borough this weekend.

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• Events happening all weekend

Visit Fireground Museum – Fireground, Maclure Road
Open 10am - 4pm, Friday 12 & Saturday 13 May

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

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72058/

Gallery Exhibitions: Prints & Acrylics and Phenix Textiles – Littleborough Coach House, Friday 12 & Saturday 13 May, 10am – 3pm

Buli Corby - Prints & Acrylics and Phenix Textiles.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72267/

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• Friday 12 May

Dying Matters Week – Springhill Hospice, 10am

This year’s theme for Dying Matters Week will focus on Dying Matters at Work.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72444/

Fire-Up Open Day – Fire Up Co-working Space, 10am

This Open Day event is the perfect opportunity for local businesses to explore the space and meet Fire-Up’s community.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72278/

The Active Living Social – Rochdale Leisure Centre, 2pm – 4pm

Fun-filled music and dance afternoons taking you through the decades.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72283/

A Night of Mediumship with Leonie Lovatt – Tilly’s Tea Room, 7.30pm start

All proceeds to the charities of Rotary Heywood 2020.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72388/

Fleetwood Mac Tribute The Chain – Bridge Inn Norden, 8.30pm

Fleetwood Mac classics and some well known covers.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72449/

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

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/search?searchvalue=12-05-2023&searchtype=date

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• Saturday 13 May

Rochdale Ramblers – Saturday Walks – Manchester Art Walk, 10am

Walk distance = 3.5 miles.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72301/

Riverside Artisan Market – Riverside Retail & Leisure Complex, 10am

Riverside Artisan Market returns again to Rochdale Riverside this weekend.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/71808/

Heywood Model Railway Group Open Day – Unit 4 Park Works, 10am – 4pm

Monthly open day.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/71863/

Rochdale Music Society Concert: Clare Hammond Piano – Heywood Civic Centre, 7.30pm

Rochdale Music society presents Clare Hammond on the piano.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/71686/

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

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/search?searchvalue=13-05-2023&searchtype=date

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• Sunday 14 May

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/72106/

Whitworth Skyline Walk 2023 – From Lobden Golf Club, start between 7.45am & 9.15am

The 8th Annual Whitworth Skyline Walk will be 14 miles as usual.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72203/

Rochdale Ramblers – Sunday Walks – Bridestones from Todmorden, 10am

Moderate walk, distance = 10.5 miles.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72302/

A Bit of Lanky Panky – Bo-Jangles Theatre, 2pm start

Dom Collins and Buzz Harkins the man behind the Bradshaw's A Bit of Lanky Panky a good old Lancashire laugh flat caps, braces, pinnies and more.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72140/

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

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/search?searchvalue=14-05-2023&searchtype=date

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