Local Events

The Royal British Legion in Shropshire invites one and all to join us for our Annual Festival of Remembrance at the Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury. Compered by Eric Smith (BBC Radio Shropshire) the programme includes the Shrewsbury Brass Band, Jigsaw Sound Choir, singer Sadie-Beth and RAF Shawbury. The evening concludes with the formal Service of Remembrance. All proceeds to The Poppy Appeal. Tickets available from the theatre.  

The season ends in a spectacular way, the last two weekends of October the whole team comes together to run the steam engine and threshing machine. Whole stalks of wheat are fed in through the top and separated in to chaff, grain and straw. The straw is then baled up with the steam powered bailer. Listen out for the toot of the horn before the action starts!

Dress in your most scary costume and look out for ghosts, ghouls and monsters as you walk the shadowy streets. Amazing light and sound effects plus a family firework display. Tickets must be purchased in adavnce either onlince, at the museum shops or Ironbridge Visitor Information Centre.

Holiday Club for ages 8+ every Tuesday and Thursday of the school holidays. Farm, and Forest School, mud, sticks, marshallows, goats, rabbits etc. Parents do not need to stay. Booking is essential.

Join a drop-in tile decorating workshop between 10am and 2.30pm and try the tube lining technique to produce your own ceramic masterpiece; you could make a collection of coasters, a circular door plaque or a gift for a loved one on a heart shaped tile. Activities vary from day-to-day; tiles cost from £5 each and can be fired and sent home later for a small extra charge to cover postage and packing. It takes up to 1½ hours to decorate your tile so last admission to the workshops is 2pm.

This year marks 175 years of business for Tanners, in light of such we are running a rather unique and event, Tanners 175th Anniversary Dinner. Guests will arrive to a Champagne reception here in our historic Cellars, then it’s a short walk up Wyle Cop to the suitably distinctive Lion Hotel for a three course dinner with wine. Like all good birthday bashes we have an accoutrement to the evening, actor David Bark-Jones and wine industry character Charlie Womersley will entertain us all with a wine ‘Call my Bluff’, with your host James Tanner roped into the panel of expert bluffers it’s a night of good food, eclectic wines and good humour.