Brum Bash X - Activities
Posted: July 3rd, 2016, 22:57
So, we were gonna go fire arrows at targets for Brum Bash X, but that plan fell through when the field got booked out by a wedding.
Here are some ideas for other things we could do, let me know which ones tickle your interest and which ones you'd hate.
The Black Country Living Museum - https://www.bclm.co.uk/ - £16
A cool little museum that most kids from the Midlands will have visited on school trips when they were younger. About 20-30 minutes drive away. It's a "living" museum that seeks to capture life in the industrialised Black Country region of the Midlands, so called because of all the soot from the factories there. There are actors in period costume playing parts as you go round the different attractions; a limelight cinema, underground mine, working tram, glass cutters, chemists, sweet shops etc.
They also have an award winning chippie that fries their chips in beef dripping. They've very good.
Cadbury World - https://www.cadburyworld.co.uk/ - £16
A little closer than the museum listed above at about 20 minutes drive, Cadbury World is the visitor facing side of the chocolate producing giant's main HQ. You get a little bit of chocolate as you go around the place, (though not as much as you used to) and get to see some of the inner workings of the factory. Sadly they've kiddified quite a lot of the place, so this might be a bit too young to keep your attention. It is however close, has a shop and café at the end, and is in the leafy Bourneville district of Birmingham, which is rather nice to drive through.
Pub crawl - www.birminghammail.co.uk/.../birmingham-city-centre-pub-crawl - £30-40 inc snacks
Decent pub crawl route as researched by the local paper, 7 pubs and less than a mile between them. Some of them are pretty fancy, and there's even an old-man-pub with sticky carpets and ales, which I know will appeal to you guys. It's an expensive option, but if there's one thing I knew 5punkers will enjoy doing as a break from drinking, that's more drinking. About 15 minutes taxi journey away.
More to come as I think of them!
Here are some ideas for other things we could do, let me know which ones tickle your interest and which ones you'd hate.
The Black Country Living Museum - https://www.bclm.co.uk/ - £16
A cool little museum that most kids from the Midlands will have visited on school trips when they were younger. About 20-30 minutes drive away. It's a "living" museum that seeks to capture life in the industrialised Black Country region of the Midlands, so called because of all the soot from the factories there. There are actors in period costume playing parts as you go round the different attractions; a limelight cinema, underground mine, working tram, glass cutters, chemists, sweet shops etc.
They also have an award winning chippie that fries their chips in beef dripping. They've very good.
Cadbury World - https://www.cadburyworld.co.uk/ - £16
A little closer than the museum listed above at about 20 minutes drive, Cadbury World is the visitor facing side of the chocolate producing giant's main HQ. You get a little bit of chocolate as you go around the place, (though not as much as you used to) and get to see some of the inner workings of the factory. Sadly they've kiddified quite a lot of the place, so this might be a bit too young to keep your attention. It is however close, has a shop and café at the end, and is in the leafy Bourneville district of Birmingham, which is rather nice to drive through.
Pub crawl - www.birminghammail.co.uk/.../birmingham-city-centre-pub-crawl - £30-40 inc snacks
Decent pub crawl route as researched by the local paper, 7 pubs and less than a mile between them. Some of them are pretty fancy, and there's even an old-man-pub with sticky carpets and ales, which I know will appeal to you guys. It's an expensive option, but if there's one thing I knew 5punkers will enjoy doing as a break from drinking, that's more drinking. About 15 minutes taxi journey away.
More to come as I think of them!
