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Express & Star 31 Dec 10
They have been teeing off for more than 300 years between them and now a group of veteran golfers are celebrating reaching a milestone.
Walsall Golf Club members Jack Harper, Leslie Tinkler, Bill Mason, Ken Banting and David Jeffries all celebrated turning 90 this year while Ken Perry turned 91. Today, as they looked forward to another year of golfing, the group recalled fond memories of the Broadway-based club…
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Express & Star 16 Dec 10
A £400,000 country park with picnic areas, horse riding and cycling routes will be created in place of Walsall’s municipal golf course after winning approval from council chiefs on Wednesday night.
The lush woodland area is lined up in place of The Grange golf course at Walsall Arboretum and will be promoted as a visitor attraction…
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Walsall Council 7 Dec 10
A Country Park, consisting of orchards, picnic areas, meadow land, grazing areas and equestrian and cycling routes could be developed to link countryside areas of Walsall with woodland sites in West Bromwich, Birmingham, Wolverhampton and beyond.
Council chiefs are being asked to support the proposal at the site of the former Grange Golf Course at the meeting of Walsall Council’s cabinet next week, Wednesday 15 December 2010…
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Express & Star 31 Oct 10
Fruit trees being planted at Wallsall Arboretum will be used to create juice for thousands of school pupils.
Apple, pear and plum trees arriving at Walsall Arboretum Extension later this year will be harvested and their juices distributed to schools across the borough. The 4,000 trees will be planted in the park by tree wardens, residents and pupils in December as part of a project to create an “agroforest” at the site…
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Express & Star 11 Oct 10
The only municipal golf course in Walsall is poised to permanently close – and be converted into an urban forest.
Hopes of reopening The Grange are to be dashed after Walsall Council failed to attract a suitable operator to take over…
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Express & Star 7 Oct 10
Golf fanatic Adrian Howe was today celebrating a stroke of luck – he caught the ball that won the Ryder Cup for Europe.
Bloxwich golf club member and father-of-one from Willenhall plucked the treasured momento out of the air after it was tossed into the crowd by triumphant Graeme McDowell, who was then happy to sign it…
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MBN 27 Sep 10
A raft of measures designed to bring in new members is helping Walsall Golf Club buck the industry and economic trends and record one of their best years ever.
The Broadway club hosted an open day in July, which brought in over 30 membership applications – three times their normal annual intake – in contrast to other local clubs who have been feeling the strain since the beginning of the recession.
One of the reasons for this is the creation of a new membership classification which waives the £500 joining fee…
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Advertiser 23 Sep 10
Walsall Golf Club attracted almost 100 people to a successful open day recently.
The club, which celebrated its centenary in 2007, gave visitors a tour of the course, which was designed by Alister MacKenzie, the architect of the home of the US Masters, Augusta National…
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The Plastic Hippo 14 May 10
Those good people at Advantage West Midlands have commissioned a poll to find the most popular tourist attractions in the region. As with all polls, there is a built-in margin of error and this error can be the only explanation as to why the West Midland Safari Park in Bewdley was voted the top attraction instead of the Norfolk Place Engineer’s Canteen in Walsall.
Birmingham might have its Thinktank, Sealife Centre and Kraft World – sorry – Cadbury World, Kidderminster and Bridgenorth might have the Severn Valley Railway, Staffordshire can boast Alton Towers and Drayton Manor, Dudley has a zoo and a living museum and Ironbridge has, well, an iron bridge but these are mere sideshows when compared to the magnificent spectacle of the Walsall Illuminations…
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Richard Williams Express & Star 5 Dec 09
Walsall’s only municipal golf course, The Grange in the Arboretum, will close next month. Council leader Councillor Mike Bird said: “At this point in time it is looking extremely likely we won’t be able to keep it going. It’s losing £60,000 this year and we just can’t afford that…