@heritagechester.bsky.socialThank you for joining us this Heritage Open Days! 🩷
Our events are run by volunteers and we're a not-for-profit organisation. Our events are fuelled by genuine passion. We'd love to know how we did!
📝 Share your thoughts: buff.ly/as2t2D0
Thank you. See you next year 🏛️
@heritagechester.bsky.socialGrab your leg warmers - it's a totally rad celebration! 🕶️
40 years since salt production ended at Lion Salt Works.
🥳 Free 80s party
📆 Sun 20 Sept, 11am-4pm
🧂 demos 🎞️ archive film 🐴 nodding donkey pump 👖 fancy dress & retro car comps.
Find out more👉️ buff.ly/PyXvzYT
@digupyourancestors.bsky.socialBartlemas Chapel was founded 900 years ago this year by Henry I, as part of a hospital for 12 lepers. It was rebuilt in 1329. Once located well outside Oxford’s city walls, the chapel is now at the end of an unassuming path off the eclectic Cowley Road.
I visited last weekend for #HeritageOpenDays
@heritagechester.bsky.socialBy popular demand, Chester's Water Tower opens for Heritage Open Days! ✨️
📆 Sun 20 Sept, 11am-3pm. This 14th-century tower once stood in the River Dee, defending the (now landlocked) port.
🎟️ Free, drop-in.
Find out more 👉️ buff.ly/ber4es0
@heritagechester.bsky.socialA full day at Weaver Hall Museum - free entry, family fun and memory-making 🏛️
Sat 19 Sept: Memory Boxes workshop for adults 11am-4pm, with artist Nichola Burton, plus free family entry 2-4.30pm with games, crafts & workhouse life demos.
Findout more 👉️ buff.ly/cxG0rvF
@heritagechester.bsky.socialSt. Mary's Church, Weaverham - Open Day 🔔
Free guided tours on request, Sat 19 Sept, 10am-1pm, plus village walks from 2pm. Grade I listed, 15th-century tower, mentioned in the Domesday Book.
Free, drop-in.
Find our more 👉️ buff.ly/CI3VL2b
@greatwarhuts.bsky.socialHut Dog Charlie Chaplin on duty here at Brook Farm Camp welcoming visitors for #HeritageOpenDays
Still some tickets left for the next 3 days - you can book here:
@iowarchaeology.bsky.social#ThrowbackThursday #IsleofWight
Newport #Roman Villa was discovered 100 years ago in 1926 and excavated by architect/antiquarian Percy Stone.
This Saturday there is free admission to the villa 10am-2pm for #HeritageOpenDays with guided tours from our museum colleagues. See shorturl.at/AEuSx
@heritagechester.bsky.socialLast two days to step inside this Victorian landmark ⛪
St. Werburgh's Church: Thu 17 & Fri 18 Sept, 1-3pm - last chance. Completed 1875, Early English style, acclaimed Binns/Sixsmith organ.
🎟️ Free, drop-in.
Find out more 👉️ buff.ly/1sx6Dsr
@iancambrook.bsky.socialHeritage Open Days in Dorset. We will be open from 10am to noon on Thursday 17th September and 10am to 4pm on Saturday 19th September. Why not drop in to see us? #HeritageOpenDays #TolpuddleOldChapelTrust #GeorgeLoveless #TolpuddleMartyrs #Methodism #History #Dorset
@ragriggsauthor.bsky.socialThank you English Heritage and guides Nigel and Jeremy for an excellent Heritage Opens Days tour at Berry Pomeroy this evening. So interesting to learn more about the layout, scale and grandeur of Edward Seymour’s Jacobean mansion.
#heritageopendays #berrypomeroycastle #devonhistory
@heritagechester.bsky.socialOne weekend left - make it count ✨
Free drop-in events this weekend:
Saturday👉️
📸 Helsby Heritage Day
🎨 Weaver Hall Memory Boxes - Northwich
🕊️ Quaker Meeting House
Sunday 👉️
🗼Water Tower
🎉Lion Salt Works 80s Celebration - Northwich
Find out more: buff.ly/nl8WL97
@wishtower.org.ukLast few places left on Friday's free architectural tours - book today!
@theatrestrust.bsky.socialWith Heritage Open Days coming to an end this week we're spotlighting one last Fifty@50 theatre taking part in this year's festival.
Find out how we've supported the theatre www.theatrestrust.org.uk/how-we-help/...
📸 Foster Wilson Size
@norfolkro.bsky.socialThank you to everyone who came to our Heritage Open Days events today. The Norwich Bomb Map was a big draw and we hope you enjoyed this very rare and special opportunity to see it up close, and hear about the painstaking conservation work behind it. #norfolkhods #heritageopendays #norwichbombmap
@heritagechester.bsky.socialA natural wonder hiding downstream on the Dee 🌊
Paul Hyde's illustrated talk on the Dee's own river bore - what it is, how it forms, and how to catch one.
📆 Fri 18 Sept, 7.30-8.50pm, Bishop Lloyd's Palace.
Tickets limited, book now 👉️ buff.ly/v6enOvI
@greatwarhuts.bsky.socialOn Day 6 of our #HeritageOpenDays exhibition: #BeyondTheUniform
Ten Lives in Ten Days, we tell the story of Piper Daniel Laidlaw, VC.
He led the hesitant men of 7/KOSB into action by playing their Regimental March.
We are displaying the Bible he was carrying on that day.
@heritagechester.bsky.socialA few last-minute spaces just opened up 🎟️
Western Command, Churchill Building tours. Explore this 1930s building built on the eve of WWII.
📅 Thursday 17 September
🎟️ Book here:
10.30am tour: buff.ly/9BHwUCF
12pm tour: buff.ly/ZXql4wM
@kateosbornemp.bsky.socialThis Saturday & Sunday, Jarrow Hall is open for free for #heritageopendays.
During these events, visitors can explore the Anglo-Saxon period through various activities, including workshops, living history demonstrations & visits to the Bede Museum and the Anglo-Saxon village.
@cheeselogs.co.uk@readingmuseum.bsky.social marks #HeritageOpenDays this Saturday with #Romans Reimagined Day.
Roman object handling, dressing up, and activities exploring ancient Calleva alongside @uniofreading.bsky.social.
For more:cheeselogs.co.uk/2026/09/16/r...