Heritage Open Days

NEW FOR 2018 Heritage Open Days have expanded and now cover the two weekends of 7-9 and 14-16 September.

Please checks dates and times carefully!

NUNEATON

 

Friday 7 September Launch event – tour of Council Chamber

10.30am and Mayor’s Parlour.

Led by the Mayor, Cllr Chris Watkins.

Book a place: tel: 02476 619126

 

Saturday 8 September St Peter’s, Galley Common, Hickman Road

10.00am – 4.00pm CV10 9NG. Special displays will include

Mining Memories and During the Wars

and WW2 Homefront Toys

Refreshments available throughout the day

More details: stpetersgc@aol.com

www.stpetersgalleycommon.com

 

Saturday 8 September Chilvers Coton Heritage Centre, Avenue Rd,

10.00am – 4.00pm CV11 4LU. Four new displays to enjoy:

 

Our Fallen Heroes and exhibition about former

pupils of Chilvers Coton Free School who were

killed during WW1 – researched by Molly Hopper

 

Steve Day Presents…a selection of local material from Steve’s amazing collection.

 

Nuneaton Memories A selection of photos not seen before, chosen by Mark Palmer.

 

Our Newspaper Archive of bound editions of

local newspapers. Includes four newly acquired

volumes for 1890, 1893, 1901 and 1936.

Light refreshments throughout the day. Whilst

at Coton, visit the Craft Units on the same site.

CCHC contact 02476 325822

 

Sunday 9 September Abbey Church of St Mary, Manor Court Road,

2.00pm – 4.30pm CV11 5HU. A chance to have a close look at this

wonderful building with a history going back to

the 12th century, and so important in the story

of Nuneaton.

Coffee and cake available. Tel: 02476 382138

 

This information was collected, edited and distributed by Nuneaton

and Bedworth Heritage Forum on behalf of all the groups mentioned in

the information sheet. Any questions or queries can be answered by:

John Burton on

02476 619126 or

johnkburton43@gmail.com

 

Saturday 15 September Nuneaton Museum & Art Gallery, Riversley

11.00am – 4.00pm Park CV11 5TU. A new event for the Museum:

Life in the Iron Age. Guarderobe members

will take you to see food, weapons and clothing

as they were in around 100 BC. Just drop in.

 

Saturday 15 September St Nicholas Church, Vicarage St, CV11 4AZ

10.00am – 4.00pm New Exhibition: The Long Connection: St

Nicolas Church & King Edward Vl School

from the 16th to the 20th Century.

2.30pm – 3.30pm There is also a guided tour of the church and

the old grammar school by David Paterson.

Tel: 02476 329802; djpaterson3@hotmail.com

 

Saturday 15 September Nuneaton Memories will have a scanning

10.00am – 1.00pm session at Chilvers Coton Heritage Centre.

Mark Palmer and his team of scanners will be

there to scan your pictures of old Nuneaton and

the area.

 

Most of the exhibitions from Saturday 8 Sept will still be on display by the Chilvers Coton Heritage Centre. Contact 02476 325822

 

BEDWORTH

Saturday 8 September Launch event in Bedworth Town Centre

10.00am – 4.00pm featuring Classic cars, Anker Radio and the

Julie Bromage Dance Academy. Lots of fun and

things to see before you step a few yards to

other locations.

 

Saturday 8 September Bedworth Almshouses, All Saints Square,

10.00am – 2.00pm CV12 8NR will present a selection of photos and

documents relating to the town, schools and

Almshouses. A wonderful chance to look closely

at the amazing Governors’ Hall and take light

refreshments in the Residents Lounge.

 

Saturday 8 September Zion Baptist Church. Newdigate Rd, CV12 8QY

10.00am – 4.00pm A chance to see this superb modern building

by local architect Keith Corrigan. There will be

an exhibition of church history and beliefs.

contact: zionbedworth@hotmail.co.uk

 

Saturday 8 September Bedworth Heritage Centre & Weavers’

10.30am – 3.30pm Cottage. All Saints Square CV12 8NR. A new

exhibition In Sickness and In Health about

medical care and carers before and after 1948.

Also mini-exhibitions on Ribbon Weaving in

Bedworth, Bedworth in the 70s and Toye,

Kenning and Spencer.

 

Friday 7 & Saturday 8 Old Meeting Church, Old Meeting Yard CV12

 

September 8JR. Harvest and Heritage Festival. Light

10.30am – 2.00pm refreshments available.

 

Sunday 9 September Harvest Thanksgiving Service at 11.00am

 

Monday 10 September Harvest Lunch and Entertainment

12.30pm Tickets £5.00. A chance at all these events to

see inside Bedworth’s oldest complete building.

 

Thursday 13 September Toye, Kenning and Spencer A guided tour of

10.30am this factory with ribbon weaving history going

back 300 years. Newtown Road CV12 8QR

Booking essential 02476 619126

 

Friday 14 & saturday 15 Old Meeting Church A celebration of Children

September and Young People Past and Present, Sunday

10.30am – 2.00pm School and Girls’ Brigade 125th Anniversary,

and Messy Church

 

Friday 14 September NEW – Memory Walk from the old Hob Lane

1.30pm School to Collycroft Methodist Chapel calling in

at the old police station and the former Joey

‘Jazzer’ Henton’s Dance Hall, passing by many

other sites that coloured Bedworth in the past.

Meet at Bedworth Heritage Centre at 1.30pm.

 

ASTLEY

Friday 7 September Astley Church, St Mary the Virgin CV10 7QD

Saturday 8 September A chance to see this wonderful church, featured

Sunday 9 September in George Eliot’s Mr Gilfil’s Love Story and in

10.00am – 4.00pm Simon Jenkins’s 100 Best parish Churches.

(Sunday till 2.00pm) Contact jeanette.sutton2@btinternet.com

Astley Castle won the Stirling Prize for architecture

in 2013. Marvellous chance to see it. On

Saturday 8 September (10 – 4) learn about life

in Warwickshire for ordinary folk in the Civil War

See www.landmarktrust.org.uk