Roger Symonds and Cherry Beath

Liberal Democrat Councillors for Combe Down

Heritage Open Days

Free access to a Variety of Different Heritage Sites

There will be the Heritage Open Days happening next month, and I have always found getting along to them really worthwhile, and usually come away having discovered something new.

Of local note: Cross Manufactoring on Midford Road will be opening its doors, and will be well worht while looking around and learning about the scope of this successful engineering  firm, starting in 1938, and which has been involved in many ground breaking developments, using precision engineering. The Claverton Pumping Station (picture above) is also a great place to visit.
The open venues will run from Thursday 8th to Sunday 11th September, with free entrance to local residents of all ages. The “Open Days” have been running for ten years, and this year there are a number of new places to visit along with some of the more familiar.  

You can take a tunnel tour at the Roman Baths on Thursday 8th or Friday 9th September, visit the local history store at St John’s on the corner of Locksbrook Road and Upper Bristol Road, in Bath, on Thursday 8th or Saturday 10th September. There is a wide variety of sites across the area providing local residents with access to places which are not usually open to visitors.

 Other sites open as part of Heritage Open Days 2011 include:

  •  Bath Masonic Hall
  • Central United Reformed Church
  • Cleveland Baths
  • Museum of Bath at Work
  • Nexus Methodist Church, Walcot
  • No 4 The Circus
  • Roman Baths – Exploring the Periphery talk and tour
  • St Swithin’s Church, Walcot
  • Southcot Burial Ground
  • Claverton Pumping Station
  • Cross Manufacturing Co Ltd, Midford Road, Bath
  • Englishcombe Tithe Barn
  • Eyre Chapel, Perrymead
  • Prior Park Landscape Garden
  • Saltford Brass Mill
  • Somerset and Dorset Railway Heritage Trust, Midsomer Norton
  • May Gurney Recycling Depot, Keynsham
  • Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
  • Widcombe Open Chapel Trail

 For more details of Heritage Open Days 2011, including listings and the online leaflet, visit Bath & North East Somerset Council’s website www.bathnes.gov.uk/heritageevents.

August 17th, 2011 in Environment, Local Council, News |

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