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●●GALLERY Exhibitions: Vanessa Hill (Until March 9)

Exhibitions are generally mounted in the Heritage Room and Victoria Room gallery spaces and each lasts for approximately one month, with a week’s gap to allow for artist changeover. Most items on display are available to purchase.

Cost: Free. Time: Tuesday to Saturday 10am-3pm. Phone: Littleborough Coach House 01706 378481. Address: Littleborough Coach House, Lodge Street, Littleborough OL15 9AE.

●●SPARROW Hill (March 8-9)

Join Skylight Circus Arts for an amazing circus show inside St Chad’s Church. Sparrows, hedgehogs, goblins and stained-glass windows come to life in a magical circus show. Jugglers, unicyclists, aerialists and more tell the tales of Sparrow Hill – home to the show’s spectacular setting.

It takes place at 7.30pm, Friday, March 8; 2.30pm, Saturday, March 9; and 7.30pm, Saturday, March 9. The venue is wheelchair accessible.

Tickets are free, donations are welcome.

Please acquire your tickets at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ sparrow-hill-tickets -830101755697. Rochdale Parish Church, St Chad’s, Sparrow Hill, Rochdale, OL16 1QT.

●●EDWIN Waugh Dialect Society (March 12)

Tonight’s session is ‘Annual Suppering-do Edwin Waugh’s Birthday Celebration and Trophy Presentation Evening’ and is presented by Stewart Chadwick.

Edwin Waugh Dialect Society meetings are held on the second Tuesday of every month (previously Wednesday) from October to June, commencing at 7.30pm at St Andrew’s Methodist and United Reformed Church, Rochdale (between Rochdale Leisure Centre and Aldi). There is free onsite parking.

Annual subscription is £5, but voluntary donations at each meeting help defray the cost of the room hire. Your first meeting is free.

Formed in 1938 by a group of Lancashire Dialect enthusiasts, the objects of the society are the maintaining and increasing of interest in Lancashire. At the meetings, members are entertained by a speaker or a performer.

Time: 7.30pm start - 9pm. Phone: 01706 826227. Address: St Andrew’s

Methodist and United Reformed Church, Entwisle Road, Rochdale OL16 2HZ.

●●ROCHDALE and District Camera Club (March 12)

Tonight is Bury Transport Museum. We meet every Tuesday at 8pm at Syke Methodist Church Hall.

You are more than welcome to come down to one of our club nights to see if you would enjoy joining the club.

Time: 8pm. Phone: Pete Williams 07967 969136. Address: Syke Methodist Church Hall, Syke Road, Rochdale, OL12 9TF. Visit: https://www. rochdalecameraclub.org.uk/.

●●MIDDLETON Arts and Crafts Group (March 12)

A social, friendly and informal arts and crafts group with a focus on wellbeing. This group meet weekly on a Tuesday. All people over the age of 18 are welcome.

Cost: Free. Time: noon-3pm. Phone: Tom Ratcliffe 01706 392210. Address: Middleton Library, Long Street, Middleton, M24 6DU.

●●ROCHDALE Photographic Society (March 13)

Tonight’s session - Bob’s trip to India. Annual PDI. We meet every Wednesday at Rochdale Unitarian Church, starting at 7.30pm prompt (doors open from 7.15pm). The door is kept locked so please ring the bell on arrival.

If you would like to see the club for yourself and meet our members, you are welcome to attend as our guest for up to three weeks before committing to membership.

Annual subscription is £36 for single or £46 for joint membership.

Cost: A weekly room fee of £2.50 is also payable on arrival at the meeting. Refreshments are 50p. Time: Doors open 7.15pm, 7.30pm start. Phone: Secretary - Ed Whitaker. Address: Rochdale Unitarian Church, Clover Street, Rochdale, OL12 6TP. Visit: https://www.rochdaleps.org.uk/ syllabus.

●●TOAD Lane Concerts - Rochdale’s Weekly Music at Lunchtime (March 13)

This week we have Rosamund Brass Quartet: Seb Williman, Adam Hofland-ward, cornets Georgia Woodhead horn and Alex Barron euphonium (all RNCM). The concert series has been held at St Mary’s since 2001 and was granted the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service in 2020.

Running every Wednesday, Music at Lunchtime is a weekly live classical music concert series that has been going since the 1960s.

The sessions were initially run at the old Rochdale Art Gallery by the local authority, but since May 2001 have been run by volunteer-enthusiasts and artistic director, Dr Joe Dawson.

Cost: £6. Time: Doors open noon, concert starts 12.30-1.30pm. Phone: Dr Joe Dawson on 01706 648872. Address: St Mary in the Baum, Toad Lane/st Mary’s Gate, Rochdale OL16 1DZ.

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