Events Around Telford

There was just one tree in the garden when the current owners purchased The Gardener’s Lodge, the ground having been cleared, ready to sell as a building plot.

’Understories’ is a brush with the new folklore of Shropshire, featuring award-winning musicians and poet Whalebone and Jean Atkin. Here are urban – and rural – myths, and tales just out of living memory. They are the common uncommon.

Have you ever wondered what the conservation team get up to behind closed doors' Find out how we keep our collection looking great, when you visit us on Tuesdays throughout the year. Maybe its hoovering the curtains, polishing metals or uncovering hidden treasure in the house.

Have you ever wondered what the conservation team get up to behind closed doors' Find out how we keep our collection looking great, when you visit us on Tuesdays throughout the year. Maybe its hoovering the curtains, polishing metals or uncovering hidden treasure in the house.

Get outside and explore nature this summer. Collect your scrapbook with a special 50 things trail map and have an adventure at Sunnycroft this summer holiday. Why not try cloud watching on our croquet lawn. Can you make friends with a bug in our orchard. Or get to know a really big tree.

Ever wondered how something is handcrafted, this weekend find out at our Artisan expo. This weekend Sunnycroft is showcasing the amazing talents of local artisans. With demonstrations of traditional handcrafting skills including rag rugging, embroidery, quilling and many more.

Got 2 Sing® Adult Choirs are fun, friendly contemporary choirs at locations across the Midlands. We Sing, We Laugh, We Socialize, We perform. Relaxed weekly sessions provide quality tuition in vocal technique, harmony and performance with uplifting songs from the world of pop, musical theatre & the classics.

The ultimate romantic ballet, Giselle is a tale of innocence, love, betrayal and madness. With music by one of the 19th century’s best composers, Adolphe Adam, and choreography by the late Nicholas Beriosoff, VFB’s traditional staging of this 1841 masterpiece moves from the sunny optimism of Giselle’s idyllic village...

Aliens love underpants Of every shape and size But there are no underpants in space So here’s a big surprise! This zany and hilarious tale based on the best-selling children’s book is wonderfully brought to life on stage for the very first time.

This live Soul and Motown dance band has a stunning line-up of professional musicians, brought together to perform the most exciting live tribute to the sounds of Soul & Motown available in the UK today!

Celebrating his twentieth anniversary as a comedian living and performing in the UK, Reginald D Hunter sets out on a forty date tour of the UK and Ireland in 2019 with his highly anticipated new show. Reginald’s searingly honest material has garnered him a popular fan base that spans the generations.

This world class seven piece band recreates every slick groove and perfect melody and features the awesome talent of Dave Duckmanton as the voice of Mick Hucknall in this two hour spectacular that includes all the hits...

rom the green, green grass of a small Welsh mining village to international superstar fame, Tom Jones always was unusual... His toe-tapping, hip-shaking moves and that unique pop tenor voice defined Tom Jones the man and shaped a career over five decades long.

Join Vicki Michelle and the Hormonal Housewives as they blast their witty way through a catalogue of women’s bits: weight gain, weight loss, mood swings, moody teenagers, men, zumba, therapy, housework, homework, electrolysis, men, sex, working out, staying in, going out, bikini waxes, celebrity gossip, eating, not

Spread the word - they’re back! Beach Boyz Tribute Band is back in town with its brand new 2019 show The Beach Boys® Tribute Show! See the boys up close as featured on BBC TV, BBC Radio Wales and BBC and independent local radio stations across the UK!

Formed in 1917, during the First World War, Grimethorpe Colliery Band is a British institution. National and British Open Champions on numerous occasions, the band’s contest successes remain legendary.

Oakengates original General Knowledge Quiz runs on the last Sunday of each month with cash prizes. It costs £1 per person to enter and the fun starts at 8.30 p.m.

On Wednesdays, Telford Acoustic Club meets to play music from 8.30pm. Come along and see them or to join in!

Do you want to be a SuperStar or are you just pop-idle? Hosted by Howard Bell & Clare Bennett, this is your chance to get 15 minutes of fame, normally on the last Thursday of each month in front of a live audience at Shropshire’s longest-established Open Mic event, where we’re proud to support Community Music!!

The Royal British Legion’s “Beer & Banter” session for retired ex-Service men & women meets here from 2 – 4p.m. for a pint and a chin-wag. Wheelchair access through back door from car park and bus station.

If carnivorous plants are your thing, then come and visit our National Collection of Sarracenia (pitcher plants); also over 100 different Venus flytrap clones (Dionaea muscipula), Sundews (Drosera) and Butterworts (Pinguicula.) - over 6000 plants in total.

Telford Town Transition Group meets here at 7p.m. to look at the sustainability of Telford, normally on the first Monday of alternate months (even if it’s a Bank Holiday.)

Dawley Angling Society meets here from 7.30 p.m., normally on the first Wednesday of each month.

Shrewsbury & Newport Canal Trust meets here from 7.30 p.m., normally every two months (except in December).

Cats Protection’s Telford Branch meets here from 6.30 p.m., normally on the first Tuesday of each month, although in June, it’s on Tuesday 11th. All welcome.