{"id":110897,"date":"2025-05-18T05:24:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T05:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/110897\/"},"modified":"2025-05-18T05:24:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T05:24:12","slug":"full-list-of-road-closures-for-sundays-vaisakhi-parade-through-smethwick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/110897\/","title":{"rendered":"Full list of road closures for Sunday&#8217;s Vaisakhi parade through Smethwick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vaisakhi procession will take place on Sunday, May 18 on the streets of Sandwell, marking the formation of the Khalsa in 1699.<\/p>\n<p>The event is being coordinated by a number of volunteers to ensure inclusive collaboration across all local Gurdwaras.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/e20a467f-d8f8-40e2-90b2-4a76e9dbadfa.jpg\"   alt=\"Vaisakhi Celebration in High Street Smethwick last month. \" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>Vaisakhi Celebration in High Street Smethwick last month. <\/p>\n<p>Mr Raghver Singh, President of Gurdwara Baba Sang Ji, Sandwell, praised the &#8216;positive strides&#8217; made under the new team\u2019s leadership: &#8220;Working closely with them has brought many positive changes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All Gurdwaras are now actively engaged, their input is valued, and their support has been crucial in enhancing the Vaisakhi Nagar Kirtan. We&#8217;ve also introduced digital tools such as QR codes for volunteers to register and for those wishing to make donations, helping streamline the entire process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A number of <a data-vars-ea=\"in article - outbound\" data-vars-ec=\"navigation\" data-vars-el=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/2025\/05\/13\/sandwell-and-birmingham-vaisakhi-road-closures-in-place-for-weekend-event\/\" data-vars-event=\"gaEvent\" href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/2025\/05\/13\/sandwell-and-birmingham-vaisakhi-road-closures-in-place-for-weekend-event\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">road closures<\/a> are set to be in place between 10.20am and 3.30pm in order for the procession to run smoothly.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1a81633d-a2b5-43ab-b4c5-92ec1e4f6b69.jpg\"   alt=\"Vaisakhi Celebration in High Street Smethwick.\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>Vaisakhi Celebration in High Street Smethwick last month. <\/p>\n<p>Here are all of the roads that will be affected:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>B4169 High Street (A4030 High Street &#8211; St Paul\u2019s Road) \u2013 Both Sides<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/f9458ced-257b-4b62-bae1-5f650a732d67.jpg\"   alt=\"Vaisakhi Celebration in High Street Smethwick.\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>Vaisakhi Celebration in High Street Smethwick last month. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>B4169 St Paul\u2019s Road (B4169 High Street &#8211; Fenton Street) \u2013 Both Sides<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li\/>\n<li>\n<p>Rabone Lane, Smethwick (Booth Street \u2013 Rolfe Street)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li\/>\n<li\/>\n<li\/>\n<li>\n<p>A4030 High Street, Smethwick (Tollhouse Way \u2013 Crocketts Lane)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>B4169 High Street, Smethwick<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>St Paul\u2019s Road, Smethwick<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li\/>\n<li>\n<p>Tat Bank Road, Oldbury (Rood End Road \u2013 Popes Lane)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li\/>\n<li>\n<p>Birmingham Road, Oldbury (Birmingham Street \u2013 Popes Lane)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vaisakhi procession will take place on Sunday, May 18 on the streets of Sandwell, marking the formation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,379,12,12608,17756,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-110897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-local-hubs","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-sandwell","15":"tag-smethwick","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114527172427328490","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}