{"id":203126,"date":"2025-06-21T18:06:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T18:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/203126\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T18:06:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T18:06:16","slug":"west-midlands-weather-hot-temperatures-bring-crowds-out-across-the-black-country-see-our-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/203126\/","title":{"rendered":"West Midlands weather: Hot temperatures bring crowds out across the Black Country &#8211; see our photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With temperatures reaching as high as \u00a031\u00b0C (87.8\u00b0F) at points across the region, it was a day for families to have a day out in parks, go shopping in outdoor shopping centres or take part in community activities.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/brierleyhillnesstoolkit.wordpress.com\/my-brierley-hill-street-interviews\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Brierley Hill<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/brierleyhill.net\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Brierley Hill Community Forum and Cultural Consortium<\/a> put on a community treasure hunt, with people invited to walk around the town centre and visit shops they might not normally do so, all in very hot and sunny weather.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/df03d123-b380-4144-929a-86df47d74fcf.jpg\"   alt=\"Organiser Frank Chamberlain said the event was about community cohesion\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>Organiser Frank Chamberlain said the event was about community cohesion<\/p>\n<p>Frank Chamberlain, who was one of the organisers, said the day was about community cohesion and the hashtag #cakenothate<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;People were able to visit shops like the Romanian bakers, an Indian takeaway, an African shop and pick up different items of food from each place.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They then brought them down to St Michael&#8217;s Church, with everything brought in as a picnic, and everyone sat down together and shared conversations and it was all about breaking down barriers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/8efe4d09-9b80-4984-96d7-b46bf4e3d894.jpg\"   alt=\"Dan Pearson and Jacob and Claire Tedstone were among the participants in the treasure hunt\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>Dan Pearson and Jacob and Claire Tedstone were among the participants in the treasure hunt<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We invited members of the LGBTQ+ community, migrant communities and people from the area and we had a great turnout and the weather was good, hot, but with the odd dash of rain to cool things down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Dartmouth Park in West Bromwich basked in the summer sunshine, with families and friends enjoying a picnic or just taking a walk.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Our photographer Tim Sturgess provided these shots of people enjoying the hot weather:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1404195f-cd3d-4489-a91f-d8d4e71876ee.jpg\"   alt=\"Graham Jones makes sure Yuki has plenty of water at Dartmouth Park\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>Graham Jones makes sure Yuki has plenty of water at Dartmouth Park<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/d46ec5c0-5a73-45a5-9c15-e582fb8a88eb.jpg\"   alt=\"Sandwell folk enjoy Dartmouth park during the hot weather. Leanne, Lily, Scarlett and Lucy enjoy a picnic\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>Sandwell folk enjoy Dartmouth park during the hot weather. Leanne, Lily, Scarlett and Lucy enjoy a picnic<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/617c9954-38aa-4115-9a52-17460ba02b0e.jpg\"   alt=\"Adelle Jinks with Brea-Lee Braizer and a cooling ice cream\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>Adelle Jinks with Brea-Lee Braizer and a cooling ice cream<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0b86f929-5cbd-4215-a203-530e2e78c8ef.jpg\"   alt=\"Ian Gibbs feeds the swans\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>Ian Gibbs feeds the swans<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/fb28d383-976b-4948-b3d9-56d4073b15cb.jpg\"   alt=\"The greenery of the park was on full display\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>The greenery of the park was on full display<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ab33f4df-aef6-449e-a22b-b9b07bc22013.jpg\"   alt=\"It was a nice day to go for a walk among the trees\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>It was a nice day to go for a walk among the trees<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/9687e81c-e2c4-4d11-92c0-3213aef3f874.jpg\"   alt=\"The park was full of people enjoying the hot weather\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>The park was full of people enjoying the hot weather<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With temperatures reaching as high as \u00a031\u00b0C (87.8\u00b0F) at points across the region, it was a day for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,22439,748,1354,393,728,4884,379,12,12608,16,15,17299],"class_list":{"0":"post-203126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-brierley-hill","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-dudley","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-environment","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-local-hubs","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-sandwell","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-west-bromwich"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114722688783677958","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203126","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=203126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}