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THE NEW BIRMINGHAM SUPER PRIX IMPORTANT MAJOR UPDATE Would you like to see THE BIGGEST MOTORSPORT
/ MOTOR SPECTACULAR THIS COUNTRY HAS EVER SEEN on the
streets of Birmingham? We have had to have a major rethink of our plans
to bring back motor racing, but have come up with something potentially
even more spectacular. We are trying to bring together as many individuals,
businesses and organisations as we can to try to make this happen again.
It could bring huge benefits to the region, but it needs as much support
as possible to make it happen.
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Exhibits and reserve collections cover the iron working and other manufacturing industries of the region and the social and working conditions of the people of the Black Country. The Museum occupies a 26 acre (12ha) open air site with displays which form a major tourist attraction welcoming over a quarter of a million visitors each year and 80,000 school children in educational parties.
Historic buildings from all around the Black Country have been moved and authentically rebuilt at the Museum to create a tribute to the traditional skills and enterprise of the people that once lived in the heart of industrial Britain. Electric tramcars and trolleybuses transport visitors back in time from the modern exhibition halls to the canal-side village. Where costumed demonstrators and working craftsmen bring the buildings to life with their local knowledge, practical skills and unique Black Country Humour.
The Black Country Living Museum was established as a charitable company in 1975 and took over responsibility for developing the open air museum in 1976. This was ten years after Dudley Council had first appointed staff to consider the possibility of such a museum following the original idea of the Borough Librarian in 1952. The Museum is run by The Black Country Museum Trust Limited as a 'not for profit' organisation which earns most of its running costs from admission income and sales to visitors. Since work started on the Museum site, in Tipton Road Dudley, in 1976 the land has been treated for the effects of mineworkings and developed by the building of a number of buildings which have been rescued from various locations within the Black Country. These buildings are both historic exhibits in their own right and form the estates within which much of the rich history of the region can be portrayed.
With 26 acres of living history there is plenty to see and do:
WHAT IS THE BLACK COUNTRY?
The region was described as 'Black by day and red by night' by Elihu Burritt, the American Consul to Birmingham in 1862 and other authors, from Dickens to Shenstone refer to the intensity of manufacturing in the Black Country and its effect on the landscape and its people. Today the Black Country is made up of most of the four Metropolitan District Council areas of Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton and the collections and displays are derived from throughout these areas. OPENING TIMES
March to October;
WIN FAMILY TICKETS TO THE
BLACK COUNTRY MUSEUM!!!
The draw will take place on Monday 21st. June 2004 N.B. A Family ticket will admit 2 adults and 3 children under 18.
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