Berkswell Museum opens its doors to the public on 1st May until October. If you’ve never ventured down there you are missing a treat – a 16th century cottage which chronicles local history as local as it can get, from local celebrities to a snapshot of local life in days gone by. This year there will be a special exhibition featuring the celebration of the Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth ll.
The Balsall Common Lions have teamed up with residents and local clubs, groups, businesses and charities to stage a Queen’s Jubilee Party on its’ designated National Holiday day on Tuesday 5th June 2012.
The event team, led by Lions President Marie-Louise Marsden are working on a ‘Party in the Park’ style event earmarked to take place at the Lant sports ground on Meeting House Lane in Balsall Common. The family event, which will have many attractions including live tribute bands, is expected to run from early afternoon and onwards into the evening. Marie-Louise said:
“We’re really keen to put on a party that will stay in people’s memories for many years to come. We have been delighted with the response from village organisations. We are keen to hear from anyone who would like to help either with their own stall or who has a couple of hours free on the day to help run the event.”
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Michael Chattaway, one of the best known servants of village life in Balsall Common, passed away on Saturday (27th August 2011), aged 74. Mick was best known to many for his Alladdin’s cave of a hardware shop, which carried his family name on Station Road from 1931, until it closed in 2007.
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True Balsall Commoner’s, being Sky blue fans (ahem), may be interested to know that 1987 FA cup (the last 21 years have been a bad dream) hero Mickey Gynn turnee postman has the Balsall Common patch..
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Nostalgia: What happened to Coventry City star Mickey Gynn?
Sunday Mercury Gynn still lives in the village but now delivers to Berkswell and Balsall Common. And he is also a regular at the Ricoh Arena collating stats for the Press Association. “It’s important to me, even though I am not a footballer any more, I still think …
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Party hungry folk at the Railway Inn on Station Road Balsall Common have pulled out all the stops to put on a right Royal Street party tomorrow (Friday 29th April 2011). Landlords Roger and Heather Parker are opening their doors for a full programme of Royal celebrations starting with live coverage of the event with indoor and outdoors screens and bars, street party, disco hog roast, BBQ and live entertainments. Read the rest of this entry »
The recently formed events planning group at St Mary’s Church, Temple Balsall are trying to increase the access for and involvement of local people. Temple Balsall was an important medieval manor when the school and the rest of Balsall Common was indeed common land. They would very much like to make this local gem more widely known.
Balsall Common teenager Ashleigh Brown is getting ready to celebrate her 18th birthday in Coventry this Wednesday (1st December) at the pub her great great grandmother famously refused to close during the Coventry Blitz. An the family have been preparing Spon Street’s historic Old Windmill, affectionately know as ‘Ma Brown’s’ after its’ famous wartime landlady.
An unexploded World War II bomb was found by startled workmen at a house in Dockers Lane yesterday morning. Bomb disposal experts summoned by Solihull Police confirmed the incendiary device ws live after carrying out an X-Ray of the cylindrical shell, believed to be a German pipe-bomb.
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