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

Date published: 18 May 2023


Lots to do in and around the borough this weekend: Golden Oldies Music Night, Walk Like A Man, Jack Kay - singer, Charity Indoor Car Boot Sale, Dale-Con, Ballroom Extravaganza, Spring Concert, DJ Pennington Crazy Karaoke & Singer, Heywood Station Car Boot Sale, Lee Rigby and Scott Etherington 10th Anniversary Memorial Ride, Rochdale Hornets v Cornwall RLFC, Friends of Hare Hill Park Band Concert, Active Living Social, Bowlee Car Boot Sale and Market, Exhibition: Prints & Acrylics and Phenix Textiles - lots to do in and around the borough this weekend.


  • Events happening all weekend

Visit Fireground Museum – Fireground, Maclure Road
Open 10am - 4pm, Friday 19 & Saturday 20 May

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

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72059/

Gallery Exhibitions: Prints & Acrylics and Phenix Textiles – Littleborough Coach House, Friday 19 & Saturday 20 May, 10am – 3pm

Buli Corby - Prints & Acrylics and Phenix Textiles.

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


  • Friday 19 May

The Active Living Social – Heywood Sports Village, 2.30pm – 4pm

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

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72281/

Golden Oldies Music Night – Castlemere Banqueting Hall, 6pm

A trip down memory lane with live singing by Zahid Ali, recreating famous Bollywood songs.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72396/

Walk Like A Man – Middleton Arena, 7.30pm

Celebrating the 60th anniversary of The Four Seasons!

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/71690/

Jack Kay - singer – Dyers Arms, 9pm

Singer, live music & great entertainer.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72492/

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

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/search?searchvalue=19-05-2023&searchtype=date


  • Saturday 20 May

Charity Indoor Car Boot Sale – Smithy Bridge Methodist Church, 9.30am

The car boot sales will take place every third Saturday of the month.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72375/

Rochdale Ramblers – Saturday Walks – The Gallows Pole, 10am

Walk distance = 8 miles.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72304/

Dale-Con – Crown Oil Arena, 10am

After a break of a couple of years or so Dale-Con returns to Rochdale.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/71795/

A Coronation Celebration – Moorhouse Methodist Church, 2pm

Poetry, readings and singing. Music will be provided by members of Milnrow Brass Band.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72080/

Ballroom Extravaganza – Rochdale Masonic Hall, 7pm

Under 21 European Ballroom Champions Mia Linnik-Holden and Andrei Toader will be hosting a 10 dance charity ballroom extravaganza.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72293/

Spring Concert – The Church of St Edmund, 7pm

A Spring Concert to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of St Edmund's Church with Cantare Ladies Choir.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72397/

DJ Pennington Crazy Karaoke & Singer – Dyers Arms, 8pm

DJ Pennington creates his own crazy style of karaoke at the Dyers Arms.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72493/

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

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/search?searchvalue=20-05-2023&searchtype=date


  • Sunday 21 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/72107/

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

All pitch fees are donated to the ELR charity to help maintain the track, bridges and locomotives.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/71956/

Lee Rigby and Scott Etherington 10th Anniversary Memorial Ride – Asda Rochdale Superstore, 9am meet, 11am leave

Riding in Memory of Lee, Scott and all other armed services personnel lost in conflicts.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72405/

Craft, Cake and Charity – Butterworth Hall, 11am

Milnrow and District Womens Institute. Proceeds to Springhill Hospice.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72199/

Rochdale Hornets v Cornwall RLFC – Crown Oil Arena, 1pm kick off

Betfred League 1 match.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/71835/

Friends of Hare Hill Park Band Concert – Friendly Band – Hare Hill Park, 3pm – 5pm

Kick back and relax to the sound of a brass band in Hare Hill Park.

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/72467/

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

www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/events/search?searchvalue=21-05-2023&searchtype=date


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