BRUMMIE CONTRAS
  • HOME & DANCE DATES
    • A4 POSTER - GREAT ALNE Friday evening CONTRA, 7.30 to 10.30 + Cajun LNE.
    • SIX at a time FLIERS. for the GREAT ALNE Long Weekend Please Copy, cut, Distribute. THANK YOU if you can.
    • A4 POSTER - MIDSUMMER DANCE
  • ABOUT
  • What's a Contra ?
    • But I've never really done this stuff before !
    • SIX at a time FLIERS. Please Copy, cut & DISTRIBUTE. THANK YOU if you can.
  • VENUE: car/bus/rail/map
    • MAPS to Elmdon Heath C.C. Download for your PHONE. CARRY to follow BEST route. View map HERE. Or PRINT & CARRY A MAP WITH YOU, to best reach the Hall at first. CLICK HERE !
    • Nearest RAIL - SOLIHULL - BUS TIMES & Routes to hall. Download to your mobile. Or print to CYCLE or WALK. Ideal: DIRECT X12 bus 13:16 on Sundays, every 30mins - CHECK times & bus stop locations. CLICK HERE !
    • Rail B'ham INTERNATIONAL Wider rail service. X12 bus. Every 30min on Sun! 13:11 ideal at stop NB.12min ride. CHECK where NB stop is ! DIRECT BUS TO HALL DOOR Check bus times still OK ! CLICK HERE !
  • A tribute
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 -
27th -30th April in 2018 for its DETAILS.

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

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 DROPS 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


See ROUTEMAPS:DOWNLOAD&PRINT   page



 CONTRA - What's that !   -  page


 But I've never really done this stuff before !  - page

DANCE DATES page
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FLIERS for the NEXT BRUMMIE CONTRA page will Pop-up : below this DATES page 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 Friday Contras & the Xmas Party, pop-up may be elsewhere !
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