A football shirt signed by the Aston Villa team which won the 1982 European Cup is coming to auction in Lichfield. It was the first time the Midlands team took the trophy, beating Bayern Munich 1–0 in Rotterdam at the final on May 26 1982, making it the sixth consecutive victory for an English side in […]
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The Lichfield Festival is, this year, 40 years-old and Jono Oates has taken a look at the early years before it established itself as one of the largest, and most popular festivals in Lichfield and Staffordshire. The festival was the brainchild of the Dean of Lichfield, the Rt Revd John Lang, who proposed the idea […]
Review by Jono Oates The Addams Family Musical The Sutton Coldfield Musical Theatre Company Lichfield Garrick Main Theatre Monday 4 July 2022 – Dress Rehearsal When I was growing up, in the 1960s, one of the most familiar theme tunes on the TV was the Addams Family…’They’re creepy and they’re kooky, mysterious and spooky, they’re […]
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Award-winning musical theatre company’s post-lockdown return brings comedy with the ‘spooky, kooky and altogether ooky’ Addams family Sutton Coldfield Musical Theatre Company (SCMTC) returns to the Lichfield Garrick Theatre on 5-9 July with The Addams Family musical. This fantastic show brings the somewhat alternative family – first made famous by American newspaper cartoons by Charles […]
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Theatre Review 13 The Musical by the Lichfield Musical Youth Theatre Hub at St Mary’s on the Market Square, Tuesday 7 June 2022 By Jono Oates 13 is one of the significant years of everyone’s lives…along with the right to vote at 18, the keys to the door at 21, the start of middle age […]
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As our own Queen Elizabeth’s Jubilee is upon us lots of people are considering the life and times of the other Queen Elizabeth and, as a specialist historian in the period, I am asked lots of questions about her – some of the answers are extraordinary. Most people don’t know that Elizabeth I not only visited […]
A host of events are taking place across Lichfield District as part of the national celebration to mark Her Majesty The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. Street parties, the Lichfield Greenhill Bower, Burntwood Wakes and village events will be held over the special four-day bank holiday weekend from Thursday 2 June to Sunday 5 June. Celebrations will […]
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Dead Lies Lichfield Garrick Theatre Wednesday 25 May 2022 Review – By Jono Oates My second visit to the Garrick in two days, and this time it was a touring production, Dead Lies, performed by a cast from the stage and screen, and written by the award-winning crime novelist Hilary Bonner. The play was staged […]
I Thought I Heard a Rustling By The Lichfield Players Lichfield Garrick Studio Theatre Tuesday 24 May 2022 Review – By Jono Oates When I was young (a long, long time ago!!) I remember the family huddled round the old black and white television in our lounge (we were the last family in the street […]
By Feature Writer Jono Oates Just a few hundred metres from the centre of Lichfield lies nearly 70 acres of recreational grounds, green space and woodlands called Beacon Park. The majority of the land was a gift to the people of Lichfield by one of its greatest benefactors who wanted to ensure that they had […]
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