Event: Summer Family Fun Day
Saturday 20 August 2022
10am - 4pm
Fireground
Maclure Road
Rochdale
OL11 1DN
DETAILS:
Greater Manchester’s museum of firefighting – Fireground is celebrating its first full year of operation with a Summer Family Fun Day on Saturday 20 August.
The museum, which tells the story of firefighting in the region over three centuries, opened in the Maclure Road former fire station in August 2021, replacing a much smaller facility on the same site. Since then it has welcomed some 15,000 visitors and hosted more than 130 educational visits.
Meanwhile the new Fireground café on Maclure Road, linked to the museum, is rapidly becoming a regular coffee stop for Rochdalians.
To mark the first anniversary, the Summer Family Fun Day will take place between 10am and 4pm. with fairground rides, bouncy fire engine and other attractions.
For further information on this press release, please contact Bob Bonner (Curator) on : 01706 341219 or 07879 667489 or email : museum@fireground.org.uk
Contact: Fireground
01706 341219