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You're at PAGE with -  How best to get to Elmdon Heath venue from University Station.
Thanks to Barry - we offer transport from University Station to the new venue.
Presently 2 seats are available. Contact (now corrected): bselwood21ATgmailDOTcom
(Please substitute punctuation for CAPITAL letters - to help avoid auto-nuisance mail.) Lest your mail be missed, If no reply after about 2 days, please contact Barry again.
Should Solihull Station be convenient -
please see B91 2SF MAPS/PRINT page for details/ printout of bus times.
See NEW VENUE of Elmdon Heath Hall for reasons to move Kim's Party with Contras  !

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New restrictions and higher costs MAY mean we must permanently move from the venue relevant to the picture above & this map page.
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You're at PAGE with -  Quiet and pleasant 12 min walk/safer bike ride from University Station.  
Street & Satellite MAPS below - 

YOU MAY DOWNLOAD/ PRINT THESE WRITTEN DETAILS in pdf on a normal "portrait" A4 sheet - in blue (or grey) & black - HERE
ENABLES YOU TO CARRY A DESCRIPTIVE ROUTE COPY, since most maps rather poorly display the hospital grounds
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Here is a pleasant pedestrian or cycling route.
An alternative to following the slightly longer 48 bus route beside busy roads.
This starts towards the QE Hospital, and through its grounds. 

Cross the road and follow a path WEST from University Station towards the NEW QE Hospital's main entrance.

Open-air fruit stalls become available; then, outside the rotating entrance doors, you pass to the right of a gigantic shining sculpture of square edged: "steel crossed fingers" -  onto a curving cycle/pedestrian tarmac path through the grassed hospital grounds. This continues - under the long, enclosed overhead hospitals' linking walkway – until you come shortly to a zebra crossing, which you follow over its road which then keeps going North. (The very short first length of your roadside route here is named Mindelsohn Way).
You next pass in front of the Women's Hospital, beside
its very large female statue on your left: thus continuing straight North [when Mindelsohn Way has turned to the East on your right].

You have now reached the cycle and pedestrian road-end through access - (between bollards, and not apparent on most maps) – into
Metchley Park Road.
You proceed – still North – straight into and along that road, with sports fields behind hedges & trees to either side.
Really delightful in Spring & Summer; this next part of the quiet Metchley Park Road, is between very pleasantly planted, large suburban front gardens.

At the roundabout (c250 yds ahead from the bollards) turn right briefly in Somerset Rd, then left into Harrison's Rd.
The view of the venue at the head of these pages is a few yards along, to your left.

CLICK on a FULL PAGE SATELLITE VERSION OF  this Googlemap.
Or view STREET GOOGLEMAP of VENUE LOCATION and ROUTE here:
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CONTACT US page

​I / we wish to be AT THE NEXT DANCE
Page with details to get £1.50 each off door price next time.
Also deadlines (to check before you email).
For a group, download a form to complete & email.


Go to Great Alne Long Weekend website -
24th -27th April in 2020 for its DETAILS.

Event doubly extends the last w/e of April in 2020 
Quality workshops for ALL ages / abilities.
Enjoy a contra here on the Friday eve.
Karin Bellaart from the NETHERLANDS will also bring all kinds of lovely INTERNATIONAL DANCES as Nel did in 2017 & 2018.

EXCELLENT PART-SONG & A WIDE RANGE of OTHER DANCING.

Bring (grand)children. Share Maypole/Morris dances & ring handbell tunes from before noon on Sat & Sun.
NEW IN 2018 - EXTRA Sat/Sun PRICE DROPPED for ADULT DANCERS and THEIR ACCOMPANIED u18's

( The Great Alne Long Weekend is a "sister" website to this one) -
 click-on to go to one of these pages - 

ELMDON HEATH CC/RAIL/BUS  - Page especially to help with Rail Station connections, and Sunday bus services to Elmdon Heath Community Centre Hall.


See ROUTEMAPS:DOWNLOAD&PRINT -
 - Page has maps for car, bus stops, bike path & walking routes -
- to the   -  Elmdon Heath Community Centre venue. Download this to a smartphone to carry to walk from bus etc,
(or print on paper) to carry: even in the car. Ideal for initial visits. 




 CONTRA - What's that !   -  Information Page,


 But I've never really done this stuff before !  - Information Page.
DANCE DATES page
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FLIERS for NEXT BRUMMIE CONTRA pages. These may Pop-up : often below Dance DATES.
They are in pdf. You may view or DOWNLOAD.
If you would like to share out the fun of the "Brummie Contra" dances - then (regularly please) download, print - and distribute a few of these fliers in your area & dance club.
For some Contras to come, a flier page pop-up may show below other main pages or elsewhere !