BLACK Country and Bastille Day celebrations will be marked together in Wordsley this week, as the new glass museum opens to tours for the first time.
With both days falling on Thursday (July 14), the Red House Glass Cone and the White House Cone – Museum of Glass will host a special event for the coinciding occasions.
The Red House Glass Cone is flying the Black Country Flag and will have matching bunting in readiness for Black Country Day, celebrating all that is great and good about our region, and will also host a range of Black Country themed items in its shop and onsite studios.
To mark Bastille Day, which commemorates the storming of the Bastille during the French Revolution, French artist Josephine Tournebize, of Josephine Tournebize Jewellery, is flying the Tricolour outside her studio and will be opening her doors to show off her work.
On Thursday, it will be the first time that the guided tours of the High Street attractions will take in the White House Cone development, offering further insight in to the glassmaking heritage on which so much of the wealth of the area was made.
The cone’s friendly guides will be offering guided tours of the Red and White House Cone sites at 10.30am and 1pm, complete with the opportunity to make a fused glass tile.
For more information or to pre-book the tours, which cost £5.75 per person, call 01384 815571.
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