Selly Manor Museum

16/11/2025

Interested in the history of Shenley? Grew up or live in the area? Pop along to Shenley History Group at Shenley Court Hall. Next meeting Wednesday 19th November 10am. Everybody welcome.

Pop into the hall or call 0121 475 7521 or email [email protected] for details.

16/11/2025

Get into the festive spirit and buy some unique, local handmade gifts at our popular Craft Fayre. Find the perfect present this Christmas 🎁 🌲 All in the stunning surroundings of two of the oldest buildings in Birmingham.

Free entry to the craft fayre and Selly Manor.

Come along to see the crafts of and many more unique vendors 🎁

Enjoy a performance by Bournville Voices at 2pm. Hot drinks available to purchase. The festival light switch on is at 5pm.

15/11/2025

Get into the festive spirit and buy some unique, local handmade gifts at our popular Craft Fayre. Find the perfect present this Christmas 🎁 🌲 All in the stunning surroundings of two of the oldest buildings in Birmingham.

Free entry to the craft fayre and Selly Manor.

At the fayre we will have beautiful crafts to buy, like handcrafted jewelry by one of our vendors Sharon Fall 🎄

Enjoy a performance by Bournville Voices at 2pm. Hot drinks available to purchase. The festival light switch on is at 5pm.

14/11/2025

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14/11/2025

Today was our last tapestry workshop with Shenley Welcomes
It was so wonderful spending time with this group, watching them build in confidence in craft and conversation. A special thank you to Rich who leads the group and is so welcoming. And Tina Francis for her expertise, patience, encouragement, and laughter.

During the past three months over 40 participants, all from different walks of life have taken part in these workshops at Shenley Court Hall and Oddingley Hall (West Heath). The work was inspired by our tapestry at Selly Manor and its intriguing connection to a tapestry at National Trust - Packwood House

In May next year we will exhibit everybody's creations at the Rest House on Bournville Village Green.

Project funded by William A Cadbury Charitable Trust

Bournville Village Trust

14/11/2025

Get into the festive spirit and buy some unique, local handmade gifts at our popular Craft Fayre. Find the perfect present this Christmas 🎁 🌲 All in the stunning surroundings of two of the oldest buildings in Birmingham.

Free entry to the craft fayre and Selly Manor.

We will have a wide range of unique crafts, such as the work of Zoe's Resins handmade ornaments 🎁

Enjoy a performance by Bournville Voices at 2pm. Hot drinks available to purchase. The festival light switch on is at 5pm.

13/11/2025

Get into the festive spirit and buy some unique, local handmade gifts at our popular Craft Fayre. Find the perfect present this Christmas 🎁 🌲 All in the stunning surroundings of two of the oldest buildings in Birmingham.

Come along to see the beautiful lino prints and embossing by Nothing or Something one of the fayres vendors 🎁

Free entry to the craft fayre and Selly Manor.

Enjoy a performance by Bournville Voices at 2pm. Hot drinks available to purchase. The festival light switch on is at 5pm.

12/11/2025

DID YOU KNOW? Our Heritage Team deliver a session at the Bournville Memory Cafe twice a month? We bring museum objects and hands on activities to explore our own memories whilst learning about the past.

👃What is your favourite smell? Last week we made Pomanders from Oranges 🍊and Cloves and learnt about how throughout history people have used Whale stomach 🐋 to make perfume.
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Find out more about the Bournville Memory cafe on our website: sellymanormuseum.org.uk/learning-tours/bournville-memory-cafe

11/11/2025

Get into the festive spirit and buy some unique local handmade gifts at our popular craft fayre 🌲🎁
Find the perfect present this Christmas all in the stunning surroundings of two of the oldest buildings in Birmingham.

Take a look at one of our vendors Milan Topalović an artist celebrating Birmingham with themed heritage designs 🌲🌲

Free entry to the craft fayre and Selly Manor. Enjoy a performance by Bournville Voices at 2pm, hot drinks available to purchase, the festival lights switch on at 5pm.

10/11/2025

10/11/2025

Tomorrow is Martinmas, a significant date in the Tudor period that marked the traditional beginning of winter.

*SPOILER* It was not all tinsel and figgy pudding - it was the main day to slaughter your pigs and other livestock. This was to preserve meat for the winter (smoking, drying, or salting) and also a time for feasting on the fresh meat that couldn't be saved.

After all that slaughter, tudors enjoyed plays, games, and the selection of a 'Lord of Misrule' (he was in charge over the Christmas period and got up to all sorts).

The 'forty days of St. Martin' was the season of Advent (aka gearing up for the Christmas season). This was also the traditional time for job hunting at 'hiring fairs' where servants would go to find new employment (just in case you wanted to do something other than slaughter livestock).

07/11/2025

Another lovely session with Shenley Welcomes for our community tapestry project. Thank you to all the people who take part. These tapestries will be framed for participants to take home.

Next week we'll make some small tapestry squares which Tina Francis will stitch together for the community tapestry piece.