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Thursday 6 September - Sunday 9 September

“A history worth discovering” Molineux Hotel Building, Rococo Room

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Heritage Open Days ሢሣሤ

Thursday 6th – Sunday 9th September 2012

With over 1000 years of recorded history, delve into Wolverhampton’s past with this year’s Heritage Open Days. Explore industry, sport, art, religion and much more in a wealth of historic buildings across the city. Wolverhampton ‘A history worth unlocking’

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All Saints’ Church GGG 4 Banks’s Park Brewery Heritage Tours GGG 4 Bantock House Museum G 5 Barnhurst Tours GGG5 Beatties GGGG6 Church of St Chad & St Mark GG 6 Compton Hospice Open Visits GGG7 Darlington Street Methodist Church G 7 Disused Orthodox Jewish Burial Ground GG8 Dovecote GG 8 Express and Star GG 9 Grand Theatre G 9 Light House Cinema Projection Tours G GGG 10 Mayor’s Parlour Open session GG 10 Molineux Hotel Building G GGG 11 Molineux Stadium Mini Tour GG12 Moseley Old Hall G 12 Saint John’s Church in the Square GGG12 Saint Peter’s Collegiate Church GGG 13 St. Peter & St. Paul G 13 St. Silas Church (former Synagogue) GGG 14 St. Stephen the Martyr G 14 Tettenhall College Tours GG15 The Wolverhampton Film Screening G 15 Wolverhampton Twentyman Trail G 16-17 Wightwick Manor & Gardens G 18 Wolverhampton Art Gallery GGGGG 18

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All Saints’ Church & Banks’s Park Brewery The Workspace Heritage Tours

THU FRI SAT SUN Thu-Fri: 11am - 3pm THU FRI SAT SUN Please book 6 789Sat: 10am - 4pm 6 789 in advance

Thu-Sat: 11am - 1pm and 2pm - 4pm The interior of All Saints Church consistently amazes visitors. This year we are celebrating Join us on a tour of the Banks’s Park our beautiful windows and wall. Dix and Brewery, where the Black Country’s finest Nicholson, leading stained glass artists, both ales have been brewed since 1875. Learn have work in All Saints. AK Nicholson was about the brewing process from grass to responsible for our paintings and amongst grain and see how traditional brewing other items the Elgar Memorial Window at methods have evolved. Understand the Worcester Cathedral. His brother Charles, differences between cask and keg ales and responsible for most of our woodwork taste the freshest pint in the Black Country contributed to many of our leading by finishing your tour with two free pints of cathedrals. How this Parish Church came to delicious cask ale. have such a wealth of features is a mystery! You can also take the fresh taste of Banks’s Stained Glass artist Graham Chaplin will be home with you from the Brewery Shop, giving a talk Victorian stained glass on Friday choose from our selection of cask 7th at 12 noon and will be available to conditioned, bottled, canned beers, wine answer questions afterwards. No charge, and gifts. donations welcome and refreshments for sale.

All Saints Road WV2 2AW 18+ Brewery Road WV1 4JT (both buildings are opposite FAMILY AGE

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GUIDED OPEN TOUR DAY & TALK

Bantock House & Barnhurst Museum 1940’s

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Sun: 11am - 5pm Fri: 11am & 12.30pm Sat - Sun: 9am, 10.30am, Join us at Bantock House and Museum for 12pm, 1.30pm & 3.30pm our 1940’s open day. An opportunity to join Severn Trent in a An opportunity to look around the 1940s guided tour or our Barnhurst Sewerage room and find out more about the home Treatment works. front during WWII. Discover the history of the works and the site development from the mid 1800s to a Museum Open: modern day works that treats 1740 litres of THU FRI SAT SUN House open: water per second and serving the 8 9 10 11 11am - 5pm Wolverhampton area.

Finchfield Road WV3 9LQ 5+ STW Barnhurst, Oxley Moor Road, Barnhurst Wolverhampton. WV9 5HN FAMILY AGE

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Four days of events, tours and exhibitions. Free admission.

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Beatties House Church of St Chad Of Fraser & St Mark

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Thu-Sat: 10am - 4pm Fri: 10am - 4pm Sun: 11am - 3pm Sat: 10am - 1pm Sun: 10am - 12.30pm (incl. 10.15am service) Come and explore a century of retail Built in 1908, this beautiful church has history at the Wolverhampton flagship stained glass by the Smethwick firm of store Beatties, now House of Fraser. See Camm and fine illuminated glass panels archive documents dating back to when originally in old St Mark’s Church, Chapel the store first opened as well as original Ash. Itincludes a dedicated centre for the objects including the Beatties Rocking children’s project, Godly Play, and activities Horse and the first Beatties carrier bag. will be available for visiting children. A visual timeline will be on display of Staff will welcome you with refreshments how the store has evolved over the and talk about the church’s 100 years of decades. Discount Vouchers will also be history. There will be a quiz and colouring given out for the onsite restaurant. sheets for the children.

71-78 Victoria St WV1 3PQ Lime Street, Penn Fields, WV3 0EX FAMILY FAMILY

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OPEN DAY & OPEN TALK DAY

Compton Hospice Darlington Street Open Visits Methodist Church

THU FRI SAT SUN Please book THU FRI SAT SUN 6 789 in advance 6 789

Fri-Sat: 2pm & 3pm (1 Hour Talk) Sat: 10am - 4pm

Compton Hospice is located in a Grade 11 Take a look inside this Grade II* listed listed building which dates back to the building as it celebrates its 110th 1840’s and has had an interesting history anniversary this November. Dating back leading up to its usage as a hospice from to the 1900s, the hemispherical copper 1982. The old Hall contains a special dome and two façade turrets make it a wallpaper designed by William Morris, to very uncommon design for its purpose which the name Compton was given and but a landmark in the Wolverhampton a chimney piece with its de Morgan tiles skyline. Refreshments and help from staff with a Morris Trellis design. will be available on the day. Quizzes, story telling and act ivity sheets will be The hospice has recently under gone a available for children. major £3.5 million refurbishment to its inpatient and day care facilities and it is planned to make the main old hall available for the general public to view and the opportunity to have a limited tour of some of the patient areas under a guided tour arrangement.

12+ 4 Compton Road West, 24 School Street, Wolverhampton Compton, Wolverhampton WV1 4LF AGE FAMILY SUITABILITY WV3 9 DH FRIENDLY

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Four days of events, tours and exhibitions. Free admission.

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Disused Orthodox Dovecote Jewish Burial Ground

THU FRI SAT SUN Please book THU FRI SAT SUN 6 789 in advance 6 789

Thu: 10.30am, 12pm, 2pm & 4pm Fri-Sat: 10.30am - 1pm Sun: 10.30am, 12pm, 2pm & 4pm The Dovecote stands in a green open space behind the Dovecote pub in the Guided tours of a grade II listed site that is middle of a housing estate. Dovecotes are not normally open to the public. The site not all that rare nationally but they are in contains an interesting mortuary chapel as Wolverhampton and the West , well as a walled burial ground with over where there seem to be only two - this one 100 grave memorials from 1851 to 2000. being one. The site is a time capsule representing a small and now all but disappeared This one is not only a rarity in itself but is Wolverhampton faith group with origins well also an interesting reminder that this area beyond the UK. was agricultural until the second half of the 20th century. The dovecote was originally Visitors will learn a little of the history of part of Barnhurst Farm, which stood where Wolverhampton Judaism as well as the the pub now is. Owing to the small size of history of this particular site. the doorway, wheelchair access to the interior is not possible.

12+ Directions on booking Directions on booking

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Express and Star Grand Theatre History Tour

THU FRI SAT SUN Please book THU FRI SAT SUN Please book 6 7 8 9 in advance 6 789 in advance

Thu-Fri: 9am, 11am & 1pm Thu: 5pm, 6pm and 7pm

See behind the scenes at one of Wolverhampton’s most long standing A guided tour of Wolverhampton’s Grand businesses with a guided tour of the Theatre, a Grade II listed building, dating from landmark Express & Star building. 1894 and designed by the architect Charles J Established in the 1800s and still owned by Phipps. Tour will focus on history, development the Graham family. Please note a tour of and role of the theatre during well over a century the print rooms will no-longer be available. of presenting shows and will include the opportunity to see heritage items on display as well as a visit b ackstage.

Please note that the tour involves the frequent use of stairs, please indicate when booking if you require wheelchair access.

12+ Queen Street WV1 1ES 10+ Lichfield Street, Wolverhampton, WV1 1DE AGE AGE

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Four days of events, tours and exhibitions. Free admission.

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Light House Cinema Mayor’s Parlour Projection Tours Open session

THU FRI SAT SUN Please book THU FRI SAT SUN Please book 6 789 in advance 6 789 in advance

Sat: 11am, 12pm and 1pm Fri-Sat: 10am - 12pm Gallery open: Thu-Fri: 9am - 8.30pm An exclusive morning with the Mayor and the Mayor’s Consort of the City of Wolverhampton. Light House will be offering behind the Come and view the Civic insignia, artwork and scenes tours of the cinema projection paintings at the Mayor’s Parlour. On display will be room. Cinema Coordinator Jas Kapur will the ceremonial robes, the letters patent from when talk about the different projection Wolverhampton was declared a city and when technologies used in the cinema industry Dennis Turner became Lord Bilston. Read old visitor including 35mm and HD digital systems. books with signatures inside from monarchs and The tour will also provide an interesting royalty, foreign dignitaries and sports personalities. insight into how Light House cinema Have a tea or coffee with the Mayor, Councillor Mrs operates and what the future holds in Christine Mills and find out more about her role in this rapidly changing and evolving Wolverhampton. Selected objects can be viewed industry. Each tour will last 30 minutes. from behind the cabinets by request throughout Places are limited, book early to the day and bronze ware, including the miniature avoid disappointment! replica statue of the Billy Wright will be out for all to see.

12+ The Chubb Buildings, 3rd floor Civic Centre, Fryer Street WV1 1HT St Peters Square, WV1 1SH AGE FAMILY

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OPEN DAY & GUIDED TOUR TOUR

Molineux Hotel Molineux Stadium Building Mini Tour

THU FRI SAT SUN THU FRI SAT SUN 6 789 6 7 8 9 Tours Fri: 4pm - 5pm & 6pm - 7pm Sat:10am, 11am, 12pm, Sun: 10am - 11am & 12pm - 1pm 1.30pm & 2.30pm

Now home to Wolverhampton Archives A mini tour of Molineux Stadium, home and Local Studies, this tour of the 18th to Wolves FC. There will be an century Molineux Hotel Building will start opportunity to view the trophy cabinets, a with a short talk about the history of the little behind the scenes as well as to see building and of the Archive service itself, the almost completed phase 1 of the followed by a guided tour, taking in original Stadium Redevelopment. rooms that have been restored to their former glory and non-public areas such as the repository and conservation studio. Refreshments provided by the Fri ends of Wolverhampton Archives will be available for a small fee. Building Open Thu: 10am - 5pm THU FRI SAT SUN Fri: 12pm - 5pm 8 9 10 11 Sat: 10am - 12pm

12+ Whitmore Hill WV1 1SF Molineux Stadium, Waterloo Road, Wolverhampton, WV1 4QR AGE FAMILY

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Four days of events, tours and exhibitions. Free admission.

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Moseley Old Hall Saint John’s Church in the Square

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Sat: 12pm - 4pm Fri-Sat: 10am - 4pm Sun: 2pm - 4pm Service of the Morning History on our doorstep! Come and explore the Elizabethan farmhouse where the young Charles II found refuge as he fled for St. John’s in the Square is a magnificent his life after the Battle of Worcester in 1651. 18th century building. There is a notable and very fine Renatus Harris organ, which There will be a chance for the children to was recently restored. The church has an dress up and play with 17th century toys excellent acoustic and has been recognised and games. Enjoy delicious homemade as one of the best places in the city for cakes in our tearoom, browse for gifts in the concerts both choral and orchestral. National Trust shop or take a stroll around our gardens and woodland.

Moseley Old Hall Lane, St. John’s Square, WV2 4AT Fordhouse s, WV10 7HY FAMILY FAMILY

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OPEN OPEN DAYS DAY

Saint Peter’s St. Peter & Collegiate Church St. Paul Church

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Thu-Fri: 10am - 4pm Sat: 10am - 1pm Sat: 10am - 4pm Sun: Worship Only

Discover stories about the church and Enjoy a visit to the oldest post-reformation the city from centuries ago. Inside visitors RC Catholic Church in . With Greek will find a model recreation of the Saxon revival elements and featuring a Pillar that currently sits in the church contemporary crucifix designed by Rory gardens. Interactive touch screens will Young, this church offers something truly guide you through the ages and give you unique. St Peter & St Paul’s was the home of a bird's eye view of Wolverhampton with Bishop Milner from 1804 to 1826, an an electronic tour taken from the top of important figure in the Catholic Church and the tower. whose tomb is buried in the church crypt. Inside St Peter & St Paul’s you can find two The visitor center captures the city's blue plaques, one dedicated to Bishop heritage in the beautiful surroundings of Milner, the other to the architect, Smith of the grade I listed Collegiate Church of Warwick. The interior of the church is a fine St Peter. example of the work of J. Ireland.

Lich Gates, WV1 1UA North Street/Paternoster Row WV1 1RJ FAMILY FAMILY

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Four days of events, tours and exhibitions. Free admission.

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St Silas Church St.Stephen the Martyr (former Synagogue)

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Thu-Fri: 10am - 4pm Sat: 10am - 2pm Sat: 10am - 4pm Sun: 11am - Normal Sunday Service Sun: 11am - 12.15pm - Sunday Service

The building of this former St.Stephen’s is a “hidden gem”. Wolverhampton synagogue dates back to 1858. After a fire severely damage Built in the Arts & Crafts style at the the original structure in 1902, a prolific beginning of the 20th.Century. local architect, Frederick Beck, took There is a War Memorial in front of charge of a rebuild. There are two the Church doors into the building; one was used for ladies, and one for gentlemen. Inside men and women were also expected to sit separately, women in the gallery and men in the main hall. Although no w a Church of England, many original features have been preserved in the building including the Ark, galleries and panelling.

off Fryer Street WV1 1HU Hilton Street WV10 0LF

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Tettenhall The Made in Wolverhampton College Tours Film Screening

THU FRI SAT SUN Please book THU FRI SAT SUN 6 789 in advance 6 7 8 9

Sat-Sun: 2pm & 3.30pm Thu: 7pm - 9.30pm

Founded in 1863, Tettenhall College Adam Kossoff’s film ‘Made in is an independent, coeducational day Wolverhampton’ is a quizzical exploration of and boarding school. a post-industrial city. Framed as a letter from the narrator to his girlfriend in Cuba, the film The College is situated on the looks at the city as a space of historical western outskirts of Wolverhampton juxtaposition and cinematic montage. and stands in 33 acres of attractive grounds, part of which are designated St Andrews Church was re-built in the as a site of nature conservation. 1960s,and houses glorious stained glass west window created by John Piper. The College’s history is reflected in buildings such as the Towers which Before the screening at 7.30pm there will contains a unique 19th Centu ry be an opportunity to tour the church. private theatre. The screening will be followed by a short discussion. This event is in collaboration with Wolverhampton Art Gallery.

Wood Road Tettenhall St Andrew’s Close, WV6 8QX Whitmore Reans WV6 0QZ FAMILY FAMILY

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Four days of events, tours and exhibitions. Free admission.

The Twentyman Trail

Discover the OPEN Twentyman DAY Trail A collection of three churches designed by architect Richard Church of the Twentyman. Good Shepherd

Why not visit all three THU FRI SAT SUN sites to gain an 6 7 8 9 understanding of the Sat: 10am - 5pm

common features and This church was built in 1955 and bears unique aspects of many of the hallmarks of Twentyman's each building. designs. The whole is a composition of cubic masses, though on a smaller scale including the sanctuary, the nave, the porch and the low side aisle. The splendid porch is faced with large oblong slabs of two types of contrasting stones whilst the crematorium displays characteristic decorative features.

Not suitable as Windmill Lane, WV3 8HJ a walking trail FAMILY

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The Twentyman Trail The Twentyman Trail

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St Andrew’s Church St. Martin's Church

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Sat: 10am - 6pm Sat: 10am - 4pm

St Andrew's Church was built in the The parish of St Martin’s was formed 1960s to a modern design. The RIBA in the 1930’s to serve the Rough Hill commended its 'dramatic special Council Estate. As a result of the qualities and bold use of materials.' Marson Bequest they were given the present church building that was There is a magnificent abstract stained consecrated in 1939. glass window to see designed by John Piper and made by Patrick Reyntiens. From the beginning St Martin’s had an Anglo-catholic tradition. A display about the work of Richard Twentyman will also be available.

St Andrew’s Close, Dixon Street, WV2 2BG Whitmore Reans WV6 0QZ FAMILY FAMILY

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Four days of events, tours and exhibitions. Free admission.

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Wightwick Manor Wolverhampton & Gardens Art Gallery Behind the Scenes Tours THU FRI SAT SUN

6 789 THU FRI SAT SUN

Sat: 11am - 5.30pm 6 789 House: 12pm - 4.30pm (House closes at 5pm) Thu-Sat: 11am, 1.30pm & 3pm

Stunning Grade I listed Victorian A behind the scenes tour of the art Aesthetic Movement mansion set in stores with the Collections Manager. 17 acres of beautiful Grade II listed Discover the special steps we take in grounds. View the house and caring for our collections, followed by an collection that Andrew Lloyd Webber insight into how an exhibition of works described as ‘precious.’ from our collection is developed. Timed tickets need to be collected Join our collections assistant to explore from Visitor Reception upon arrival. the geology of the Black Country through the collection. (Only available Thurs and Fri)

Wightwick Bank WV6 8EE Lichfield Street WV1 1DU

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Location Map

1 All Saints’ Church 9 Dovecote 17 Saint John’s Church in the Square 2 Banks’s Park Brewery 10 Express and Star 18 Saint Peter’s Collegiate Church 3 Bantock House Museum 11 Grand Theatre 19 St. Peter & St. Paul English 4 Barnhurst 12 Light House Cinema 20 St. Silas Church 5 Beatties House Of Fraser 13 Mayor’s Parlour Open session 21 St. Stephen the Martyr 6 Compton Hospice 14 Molineux Hotel Building 22 Tettenhall College 7 Church of St Chad & St Mark 15 Molineux Stadium Mini Tour 23 Twentyman Trail 8 Darlington Street Methodist Church 16 Moseley Old Hall 24 Wightwick Manor & Gardens 25 Wolverhampton Art Gallery M 54

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