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and contemporary art featuring the largest pop art collection outside of London. The building offers impressive and affordable spaces. The refurbished Georgian Gallery can host up to 100 delegates.
Also, in the heart of the city centre is The Grand Palace, a Grade II * listed building with a capacity to host up to 650 guests in its main space, along with an additional 170 in the second suite. Able to host a variety of events, the venue excels at banquets.
A city institution and key venue is Molineux, home of Premier League Wolverhampton Wanderers FC. It’ s unusual for a football club to be so close to a city centre. The stadium, as well as being a heritage site of this
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grand old club which has seen many famous players run out in the old gold shirt, is also a treasure trove of event spaces, with its All Bar One space offering uninterrupted views of the pitch.
Staying with the sporting venue theme, and Wolverhampton Racecourse is only 10 minutes from the M54 and has 1,500 free car parking spaces. It is also setting a galloping pace for events with suites and halls for hire, and like most racecourses offers expansive loading areas, suitable for exhibitions, as well as staging conferences and product launches. Its largest suite on the ground floor offers 600sqm of pillar-free space that can hold up to
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Above left: Wolverhampton’ s Civic Halls
Above right: The Georgian Gallery
Left: Grand Theatre
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600 delegates. Other key indoor entertainment venues include the council-run Bilston Town Hall( 1,000) and the 700-capacity Robin 2. And the city’ s much-loved Victorian West Park plays host to many major events.
The council is encouraging many other new facilities to come on stream, among them a new four-screen independent cinema at the historic Chubb Building.
There is a Holiday Inn on site and a four-star option nearby as you head towards the Shropshire Hills, The Mount Hotel Country Manor.
Wolverhampton, while proud of its city heritage, is also a close neighbour to some stunning countryside.
Landmark events The City of Wolverhampton’ s portfolio of landmark events over the last two years includes the start and finish of the Commonwealth Games road cycling time trials, the prestigious British Art Show 9. The city also became the first in the UK to host the FISE Xperience urban sports tour.
Wolverhampton has a history of spawning star talent, including pop icons Slade, Beverley Knight, the late Liam Payne and Kevin Rowland, along with sports greats ranging from cycling
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