Walsall Arboretum spans 170 acres (69 hectares) and includes Hatherton Lake, veteran trees and a historic bandstand. <\/p>\n
The park occupies the site of Reynolds Hall, the 16th Century home of the Persehouse family, and hosts a wide range of community events throughout the year.<\/p>\n
Fiona Macmillan, who is involved with activities at the Arboretum, said those connected with the park were thrilled by Smith’s comments.<\/p>\n
“We’re absolutely delighted that she mentioned the Arboretum,” she said.<\/p>\n
Macmillian said the park offered something for all ages, bringing together families and the wider community through events and activities.<\/p>\n
“It’s also great for grown-ups,” she said. “They have stuff for old codgers like the classic car theme that’s full of blokes.”<\/p>\n
The Arboretum hosts fireworks displays, Pride events, choirs, craft groups, willow weaving sessions and Sunday concerts at its bandstand.<\/p>\n
“Whole families come to the fireworks. The fireworks is a big cheese, and then Pride do at least two events,” Fiona said.<\/p>\n
“We’ve got the choir and the ukulele group and the crafters and the willow weavers, all sorts.<\/p>\n
“They have a bandstand Sunday concert, it’s in the centre green, and that’s great fun.”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Walsall Arboretum spans 170 acres (69 hectares) and includes Hatherton Lake, veteran trees and a historic bandstand. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-777930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}