2018 Heritage Open Days ; 15-16 September 2018

Established in 1994, Heritage Open Days is England’s contribution to the European Heritage Days and has since grown into the country’s largest heritage festival. The central principle was as simple as it was compelling: to throw open the doors to historic monuments and buildings, in particular those normally closed to the public.

Today, they are held annually in September in 50 signatory states to the European Cultural Convention. Each country running it in their own way, the festival not only highlights the dazzling diversity of Europe’s heritage, but also its intercultural links.

This one cropped up on the Subbrit e-list for the opportunity to visit an air-raid shelter at Barton-upon-Humber and hence this rather late reminder ! ;
www.barton-upon-humber.org.uk/event/expe...pen-days/2018-09-16/ .

Full details of all opening times are on the heritage open days website ; www.heritageopendays.org.uk/visiting/advanced-search .

The heritage days take another name in Scotland so hopefully Martin will be along soon to explain for us ?

Thanks Martin . I knew that you would know !

I spent Saturday touring the Cheshire area and visited Hawarden and Speke and also Hooton Park which was taking part in the Heritage Open Day scheme . Had a great time there with tours around The Aeroplane Collection display and workshops , access to one of the hangars housing more of the TAC 'fleet' as well as an fleet of buses . There were also military re-enactors and a local large scale model boat club who use a very large EWS tank to sail their boats in !

On Sunday I met up with fellow ARG members Colin Barber and Dave Smith at the Rhydymwyn Valley Nature Reserve near Mold in North Wales for a tour of the former Ministry Of Supply Valley Works and in particular it's 'Tunnel Tours' . Everything you need to know and more about the site in general and it's tunnel tours can be found on their website were you might also recognise one or two other ARG names too ! Link here ;rhydymwynvalleyhistory.co.uk/index.htm .

I will post up some photos before too long but I would recommend visits to both Hooton Park and Rhydymwyn and not just on the Heritage Open Days and Colin has already started taking names for the 2019 Tunnel Tours !