Brownhills festival makes successful return
THE return of Brownhills Canal Festival has been hailed a major success.
Thousands of visitors enjoyed browsing a range of stalls and floating traders’ wares at the event, held over the weekend of September 18-19 at Silver Street, Brownhills.
Last held in 2019, the organisation of this year’s West Midlands festival was taken over by Lichfield & Hatherton Canals Restoration Trust, whose communications director Christine Howles said: “The festival was very well attended.
“Entry was free so it’s difficult to be accurate about numbers but we estimate about 2000 people turned up.
“The festival was very popular; the people who came said they were so pleased to see it back and loved the range of stalls and floating traders.
“Space was limited but filled with six floating traders and six historic boats who had booked places and they were joined by several other historic and private boats and 20 land traders.
“We are now looking to see if we can repeat it next year.”