Your chance to see inside our heritage

[davieG]

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It's that time of the year again – your chance to see inside some of our most important and impressive heritage.

Starting today until Sunday, as part of the Heritage Open Days scheme, over 50 buildings in Leicester will be available to explore. The historic venues include: 

 

Belgrave Hall, Braunstone Park, Castle Hill Country Park, Central Baptist Church and William Carey Museum, Charles Street, City Hall, City Rooms, Cultural Quarter, Curve, the former Leicestershire Bank on Granby Street, Evington Village, Friars Mill, Great Meeting Unitarian Chapel, Greyfriars, Jewry Wall Museum, Leicester Cathedral bell tower, Leicester Print Workshop, Leicester Town Hall, Victoria Park, Magazine Gateway, St Andrew's Church, St Margaret's Church, St Mary de Castro Church, St Mary's Church, St Nicholas' Church, St Peter's Church (Belgrave and Highfields), Stoneygate Tram Depot, Glenfield Tunnel, Welford Road Cemetery, Abbey Pumping Station Museum, All Saints' Church War Memorial Project, Historic Abbey Park, Leicester Secular Hall, Leicester Synagogue, University of Leicester architecture tour and Westbridge Place.

I also understand, as part of the open days, there will be a poignant event this Sunday, between 10am and 3pm, when the Friends of Belgrave Cemetery, in conjunction with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, will be commemorating local servicemen who died during the Battle of the Somme.

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At 10.30am, poppy tributes will be placed on the family headstones of two of those who fell during the Somme campaign. There will also be guided walks at 11am and 2pm.

For more details, contact Dorothy Marshall on 0116 267 2018.

Best of all, every Heritage Open Day event is free. For the full times, dates and listings, see:

visitleicester.info/heritageopendays

Read more at http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/your-chance-to-see-inside-our-heritage/story-29697330-detail/story.html#iitImjf2UwTqqDsJ.99

 

Seems a bit odd timing with the kids back at school.

[Darkon84]

Definitely odd timing now the kids are back. Anyway, Edible Forest are doing another thing as well, 'Tea in the Tower', where you can go and eat in Old John at Bradgate Park.

 

http://www.goleicestershire.com/shop/thedms.aspx?dms=72&shop=3&prod=9411

 

EDIT: Bugger, all the dates are sold out. Nevermind

[Stadt]

I'm shit scared of Glenfield tunnel but I might have look