Wolverhampton FREE events, tours and exhibitions all capturing Heritage Open Days a unique piece of Wolverhampton www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/heritageopendays Thursday 6 September - Sunday 9 September “A history worth discovering” Molineux Hotel Building, Rococo Room Availability Key: THU FRI SAT SUN THU FRI SAT SUN Green indicates events Faded-out indicates events 6 789available on this day. 6 789 not available on this day. ሢሣሤ Wolverhampton 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’ Events Summary Thu Fri Sat Sun Page All Saints’ Church GGG 4 Banks’s Park Brewery Heritage Tours GGG 4 Bantock House Museum G 5 Barnhurst Tours GGG5 Beatties House Of Fraser 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 Key: G Tour G Open Building Four days of events, tours and exhibitions. Free admission. OPEN GUIDED DAYS TOUR 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 FRIENDLY this p ostcode) SUITABILITY ሢሣሤሢሣሤ 4 Heritage Open Days The Grand Theatre is the official box Bookings: 01902 429212 office for this year’s Heritage Open Days www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/heritageopendays GUIDED OPEN TOUR DAY & TALK Bantock House & Barnhurst Museum 1940’s THU FRI SAT SUN THU FRI SAT SUN 6 789 8 9 10 11 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 FRIENDLY SUITABILITY All children must be accompanied by an adult. ሢሣሤሢሣሤ 6th - 9th September 2012 5 Four days of events, tours and exhibitions. Free admission. OPEN OPEN DAYS DAY Beatties House Church of St Chad Of Fraser & St Mark THU FRI SAT SUN THU FRI SAT SUN 6 789 6 789 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 FRIENDLY FRIENDLY ሢሣሤሢሣሤ 6 Heritage Open Days The Grand Theatre is the official box Bookings: 01902 429212 office for this year’s Heritage Open Days www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/heritageopendays 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 activ ity 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 Children to be accompanied at all times ሢሣሤሢሣሤ 6th - 9th September 2012 7 Four days of events, tours and exhibitions. Free admission. GUIDED OPEN TOUR DAYS 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 Midlands, 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 AGE FAMILY SUITABILITY FRIENDLY ሢሣሤሢሣሤ 8 Heritage Open Days The Grand Theatre is the official box Bookings: 01902 429212 office for this year’s Heritage Open Days www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/heritageopendays GUIDED GUIDED TOUR TOUR 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.