Portway Lifestyle Centre Multi-sport Day
Allan Nyom, Jonathan Leko and Brendan Galloway made a surprise visit to Portway Lifestyle Centre on Tuesday, taking part in a range of multi-sports activities.
Working alongside the regular disability coaches, the trio received a tour of the facilities and joined in a game of football.
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The club won the Football League Championship in 1920 and are five-time FA Cup winners (1888, 1892, 1931, 1954 & 1968).
Strong footballing principles remain at the core of the club and its progressive thinking has seen it thrive on and off the pitch on a global stage, while not forgetting its roots.
The home of the 'Baggies' -The Hawthorns -- has a 26,586 capacity and sits in a central location in the Midlands.
Like the club's state-of-the-art training facilities, the stadium offers the ideal backdrop for Barclays Premier League football.
It remains a hive of activity all-year round as the club's directors and staff ensure everything is in place to remain competitive year after year in the biggest league in the world.
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A British Sign Language (BSL) introduction to the new Portway Lifestyle Centre
Portway Lifestyle Centre is brand new. It is a health and wellbeing centre. It is going to open in 2013.
The project is run by agencies that include Sandwell Council, Sandwell Leisure trust, Sandwell Liftco and Sandwell Primary Care Trust.
So, the centre will bring different services together all in one place. There is going to be social care, health and leisure services all under on roof.
The Portway Lifestyle Centre is being built on the site of the former Oldbury Leisure Centre on Newbury lane. The building will provide a range of activities for people with and without disabilities in a state of the art building.
How will it meet everyone's needs?
Well, what we've done is we've worked closely with a variety of groups from the earliest planning stages to make sure that people can have their say, such as through the project reference group, so that people who will use the centre from adult services, people from special interest groups, people who take part in sport and also members of
the public who will want to use the centre are all involved.
So, what we've done is help make sure the planning process has gone smoothly, but also hope that everyone will feel welcomed from all different communities.
So, what activities and facilities are there?
Well, for people who want to improve their health there will be things that anyone can come along and use and something for everyone. There will be a 4 court sports hall, hydro therapy pool, gym and weight area, dance studio, sports hall and floodlit five-a-side pitch outside. There will also be a multi-purpose area for activities such as bowls and tea dances, and a variety of other activities as well. There is also going to be a GP surgery on site, The Tividale Family Practice, and also a café near the reception area.
How much will it cost to come to Portway?
Well, it will be just like other Sandwell Leisure Trust run centres, with the same concessionary rates. Portway will be open every day except for Christmas day or bank holidays.
If you want to find out all about it, have a look at Sandwell Leisure Trust's website, slt-leisure.co.uk. You can also watch a 3D simulation of what Portway will look like.
If you would like more in-depth information, or would like information in Braille, large print or a different format, you will find contact details on the website.
Oldbury Leisure Centre becomes Portway Leisure Centre
Oldbury Leisure Centre becomes Portway Leisure Centre
Places to see in ( Oldbury - UK )
Places to see in ( Oldbury - UK )
Oldbury is a town in Sandwell, West Midlands in England. It is a part of the Black Country, and the administrative centre of the borough of Sandwell. The place name Oldbury, comes from the Old English 'Ealdenbyrig', - signifying that Oldbury was old even in early English times over 1000 years ago. Eald being Old English for 'old', Byrig is the plural of 'burh' in Old English - a burh being a fortification or fortified town.
Oldbury was part of the ancient parish of Halesowen, a detached part of Shropshire surrounded by Worcestershire and Staffordshire, until the Counties (Detached Parts) Act 1844, when it was incorporated back into Worcestershire after an absence of nine-hundred years. It became an Urban District in 1894, receiving Municipal Borough status in 1935.
In 1966, Oldbury was merged with the County Borough of Smethwick and the Municipal Borough of Rowley Regis to form the County Borough of Warley, which also included most of the Tividale area of Tipton and the eastern section of Oakham in Dudley. The geographical county boundaries were also changed to include the whole of Warley as part of Worcestershire; formerly both Rowley Regis and Smethwick had been in Staffordshire.
In 1974, Oldbury became part of the new Sandwell Metropolitan Borough (a merger between the county boroughs of West Bromwich and Warley), and was transferred into the West Midlands Metropolitan County. Since 1986, after the abolition of the West Midlands County Council, Sandwell effectively became a unitary authority. Sandwell Council's headquarters are situated in Oldbury Town Centre. Oldbury comes within the B68 and B69 postal districts, the latter of which also covers part of Tipton. The postal town is Oldbury, although it previously came under the Warley post town, along with Smethwick, Rowley Regis, and Cradley Heath.
For over thirty years there were three railway stations in the parish named Oldbury; only one is still open, but under a new name. The oldest surviving one is on the Stour Valley Line (former LMS Railway), at Bromford Road. It has been there since the 1850s. It was originally called Oldbury & Bromford Lane Station, then Oldbury Station, but it is now known as Sandwell and Dudley.
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Big News - Portway Lifestyle Centre
24th June 2016. It's National Learning Disability Week and we 've been hearing from two people who work in that field, they're from the Portway Lifestyle Centre in Sandwell.
Two of their team spoke with Tom Bowen who began by asking what it took to be a centre of excellence.
Portway on Midlands Today
BBC Midlands Today visited the centre to report on the fact that Portway Lifestyle Centre is part of a national programme that caters specifically for the needs of people with disabilities.
Shaun Walks the Rainbow at Portway Lifestyle Centre
Shaun Stretton, a regular user of Portway Lifestyle Centre via Sandwell Council Adults Services, aimed to get out of his wheelchair and walk down the centre's main 'Rainbow Way' corridor. Eight months after the centre first opened, he did just that. This video shows Shaun's fantastic achievement as he takes his steps down Rainbow Way.
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Natalie Coopers Case Study at Portway Lifestyle Centre
Reaching New Heights at Portway Lifestyle Centre
How Sandwell Council's Adults Services uses the indoor climbing wall at Portway Lifestyle Centre. The climbing wall is run by Closer to the Edge.
Hal Robson-Kanu and James Morrison take to the touchline at Portway Lifestyle Centre
Working with The Albion Foundation's post-16 development programme, James Morrison and Hal Robson-Kanu attended a session at Portway Lifestyle Centre in Oldbury to pass on advice and take to the touchline.
The West Bromwich Albion YouTube Channel is your one-stop hub for Baggies video content. Our team of insiders bring you an array of videos from across the club, including pre and post-match interviews with the head coach and players, highlights packages, behind-the-scenes footage, funnies, fan cams, and lots, lots more.
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Established in 1878, Albion has a proud heritage and rich tradition as one of the 12 founder members of England's Football League.
The club won the Football League Championship in 1920 and are five-time FA Cup winners (1888, 1892, 1931, 1954 & 1968).
Strong footballing principles remain at the core of the club and its progressive thinking has seen it thrive on and off the pitch on a global stage, while not forgetting its roots.
The home of the 'Baggies' -The Hawthorns -- has a 26,586 capacity and sits in a central location in the Midlands.
Like the club's state-of-the-art training facilities, the stadium offers the ideal backdrop for Barclays Premier League football.
It remains a hive of activity all-year round as the club's directors and staff ensure everything is in place to remain competitive year after year in the biggest league in the world.
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They Will Learn [2010]
A man returns home to continue his monotonous life until something inside his cupboard catches his attention.
The 2nd of 3 short films shot in one weekend in Oldbury, West Midlands [UK].
Written and directed by Cory Scott Price.
Starring Huger Boewer.
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OLD 'Working' WATER WHEEL on display - Snuff Mills, Bristol, UK
WATER WHEEL:
A water wheel is a machine for converting the energy of flowing or falling water into useful forms of power, often in a watermill. A water wheel consists of a wheel (usually constructed from wood or metal), with a number of blades or buckets arranged on the outside rim forming the driving surface.
Water wheels were still in commercial use well into the 20th century but they are no longer in common use. Uses included milling flour in gristmills, grinding wood into pulp for papermaking, hammering wrought iron, machining, ore crushing and pounding fiber for use in the manufacture of cloth.
Some water wheels are fed by water from a mill pond, which is formed when a flowing stream is dammed. A channel for the water flowing to or from a water wheel is called a mill race. The race bringing water from the mill pond to the water wheel is a headrace; the one carrying water after it has left the wheel is commonly referred to as a tailrace......[1]
SNUFF MILLS:
Snuff Mills is a park in the Stapleton area of north Bristol, also known as Whitwood Mill.
There are pleasant walks along the steep wooded banks of the River Frome, for example to Oldbury Court. The park was purchased in 1926 by the Corporation of Bristol as a pleasure walk for citizens of Bristol and restored in the 1980s by the Fishponds Local History Society.
The park's name originates from one of the millers. His nickname was 'Snuffy Jack' because his smock was always covered in snuff.[1]
The park includes an old quarry and a stone mill. The old mill within the park was used for cutting and crushing stone from the many quarries along the Frome Valley during the late 19th century. It contains a waterwheel, egg-ended boiler in its setting and the remains of a vertical steam engine. Despite the name, tobacco snuff was never ground in this mill.
Today, Snuff Mills is still a popular site for locals and visitors who come to enjoy the tranquility and natural surroundings. This stretch of the River Frome is also home to some of Bristol's otters.
BRISTOL:
Bristol is a city and county[4] in South West England with a population of 459,300.[5] The wider district has the 10th-largest population in England.[6] The urban area population of 724,000 is the 8th-largest in the UK.[2] The city borders North Somerset and South Gloucestershire, with the cities of Bath and Gloucester to the south-east and north-east, respectively. South Wales lies across the Severn estuary.
Iron Age hill forts and Roman villas were built near the confluence of the rivers Frome and Avon, and around the beginning of the 11th century the settlement was known as Brycgstow (Old English the place at the bridge). Bristol received a royal charter in 1155 and was historically divided between Gloucestershire and Somerset until 1373, when it became a county of itself. From the 13th to the 18th century, Bristol was among the top three English cities after London in tax receipts. Bristol was surpassed by the rapid rise of Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool in the Industrial Revolution.
Bristol was a starting place for early voyages of exploration to the New World. On a ship out of Bristol in 1497 John Cabot, a Venetian, became the first European since the Vikings to land on mainland North America. In 1499 William Weston, a Bristol merchant, was the first Englishman to lead an exploration to North America. At the height of the Bristol slave trade, from 1700 to 1807, more than 2,000 slave ships carried an estimated 500,000 people from Africa to slavery in the Americas. The Port of Bristol has since moved from Bristol Harbour in the city centre to the Severn Estuary at Avonmouth and Royal Portbury Dock.
Bristol's modern economy is built on the creative media, electronics and aerospace industries, and the city-centre docks have been redeveloped as centres of heritage and culture. The city has the largest circulating community currency in the UK—the Bristol pound, which is pegged to the Pound sterling. The city has two universities, the University of Bristol and the University of the West of England, and a variety of artistic and sporting organisations and venues including the Royal West of England Academy, the Arnolfini, Spike Island, Ashton Gate and the Memorial Stadium. It is connected to London and other major UK cities by road and rail, and to the world by sea and air: road, by the M5 and M4 (which connect to the city centre by the Portway and M32); rail, via Bristol Temple Meads and Bristol Parkway mainline rail stations; and Bristol Airport.....
Oldbury White Horse Triathlon
Oldbury White Horse Triathlon, named after one of the oldest chalk white horses remaining in Wiltshire and is home to a friendly event suitable for complete beginners and champions alike. Attracting several first timers along with European and National Champions, this race really does cater for all with its pool swim, fast and wide bike course and fast flat run course.
Oldbury Triathlon events 2017:
Oldbury White Horse Children's Triathlon - 29th April 2017
Oldbury White Horse Sprint Triathlon - 30th April 2017
Oldbury White Horse Sprint Aquabike - 30th April 2017
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