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Featured Event
A Summer of Victorian Childhood
- 19th Jul - 1st Sept 2025
- 10am - 5pm
BLISTS HILL VICTORIAN TOWN | Enjoy a summer of childhood and play.
Full Events Calendar
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Nothing Great is Easy: Celebrating the Extraordinary Life of Captain Matthew Webb (1848-1883)
- 5th Aug 2025
- 6.30pm
THE GLASS CLASSROOM, COALBROOKDALE | This talk will celebrate the 150th anniversary of local hero, Captain Matthew Webb's, success as the first person to swim the English Channel.
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![A man, dressed in Victorian costume, is driving a large green steam engine. The engine has two large rear wheels and one roller at the front. There is smoke coming out of a chimney stack on the front of the engine.]()
Steam Gala
- 9th - 10th Aug 2025
- 10am - 5pm
BLISTS HILL VICTORIAN TOWN | Enjoy the spectacle of huge steam machines rolling around the streets of the Victorian town.
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Memory Café with Home Instead
- 26th Aug 2025
- 10am - 12pm
THE GLASS CLASSROOM, COALBROOKDALE | Join us at the Memory Café - a welcoming space for those living with dementia and their caregivers.
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Behind the Seams: Regency & Romantic Fashions (1795–1850)
- 2nd Sept 2025
- 6.30pm
GADGETDOM, ENGINUITY | This talk explores the evolution of early nineteenth-century fashion, from classical-inspired Regency outfits seen in Pride & Prejudice to the more austere style of dress associated with Jane Eyre and the 1840s.
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![Close-up of a man's hands pressing some clay in-between two metal moulds, to form a clay pipe.]()
Clay Pipemaking Workshop
- 13th Sept 2025
- 11am - 3pm
COALPORT CHINA MUSEUM | Have a go at making traditional clay pipes in a range of styles and shapes.
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