Heritage Open Days in to find your to find your Use the map way around! way Your chance to explore some of Preston’s intriguing buildings…

Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 September 2015

www.prestonguildcity.co.uk Step through historic & Art Hidden ‘art nouveau’ - War Society, take part in family-friendly Gallery and Library P.C. Carpets, Everything Home activities and enjoy the new interactive doors into some of Market Square, PR1 2PP 1 and 2 Lune Street (on corner Somme gallery. Preston’s fascinating with Fishergate), PR1 2NL 10.30am, 12.30pm and 2pm Visit the Egyptian balcony at the top of this 10am – 4pm buildings. Grade 1 listed building – or enjoy a virtual Grade 2 listed late-Victorian tour of its features. Discover the history of former friendly society offices with > Security at the barracks can vary, please Twenty historic buildings and the building with an Architectural Gem tour. original interior features within a check the museum’s website to find out There is a small display about the Jacobites Baroque-style exterior. The manager’s office sites with stories to tell are up-to-date arrangements. in Preston in the Discover Preston gallery. at the top of the building includes wooden opening on Saturday 12 and/ > Access: All public areas apart from the Building 9am – 5pm, panelling and – open only for Heritage or Sunday 13 September for Chapel are accessible to wheelchair users. Egyptian Balcony 1 – 3pm Open Day – his bathroom with beautiful ‘art Heritage Open Days. There nouveau’ tiling. The Museum is open Tuesday–Thursday and Building 12 noon. Saturday www.lancashireinfantrymuseum.org.uk are special tours, displays and Virtual Egyptian Balcony 1pm, 2pm Saturday 10am – 5pm Sunday 11am – 3pm information – don’t miss this The Minster Church > Access: Main features are at the top of 3 chance to discover more of of St John flights of stairs. Preston’s architectural heritage. The Harris Museum & Art Gallery Church Street, PR1 3BU are open Monday–Saturday Archives www.harrismuseum.org.uk Discover more about the city’s heritage Bow Lane, PR1 2RE with Preston Historical Society at Preston’s Saturday 12 September Haslam Park parish church. This Grade 2* listed building This iconic 1970s building holds was almost entirely rebuilt in the mid-1850s Blackpool Road, Ashton-on- 9 miles of shelving and 900 years of history by EH Shellard, with fittings by Lancaster Ribble, PR2 1JE – including fascinating archives relating to architect, EG Paley, and stained glass by and Miller Parks the 1715 , which will be on Shrigley and Hunt. In 1715, the earlier Haslam Park was designed by Heritage Walking Tour display. Tour behind the scenes and explore church was at the heart of the battle and Thomas Mawson, the celebrated The Pavilion, , the history of the building. later housed up to 1,000 Jacobite prisoners. landscape architect of the Edwardian era, PR1 8JT and is bounded by the Lancaster Canal 11am, 12 noon, 1.30pm, 2.30pm 10am – 4pm begun in 1792. The Friends of Haslam Park Avenham and Miller Parks lie are leading walks to discover the history 10am – 4pm > Access: Disabled parking behind church. on the north bank of the River of both the park and the canal. Meet at the Ramped access. Accessible toilet. Ribble, and are two of the finest Victorian Bowls Pavilion. Wear stout footwear and Access: Lift access to all areas. Accessible toilets parks in the north-west of . The appropriate clothes for the weather. The Archives are open Monday–Friday and 60–90 minute tour tells the story of their 2nd Saturday of the month development and visits key features such Saturday Canal 11am. Park 2pm. as the Swiss Chalet and the Grottos. Meet Sunday Park 11am. Canal 2pm. www.lancashire.gov.uk/archives at the Pavilion, designed by award-winning > Access: Slopes in some areas of the park. architect Ian McChesney. Wear stout shoes Lancashire Infantry Museum and appropriate clothes for the weather. More interesting buildings to , Watling Street explore in Preston: Road, PR2 8AA 2pm > Based in the historic Fulwood Barracks, this > Access: Steep slopes in some areas of the parks. > Station is the largest in the north-west. Tour the barracks and see parts of the grounds that are normally restricted Booking Refreshments Toilets to visitors. Investigate your regimental Icon Key Recommended Tipping rubbish at the Argyll Road refuse family history, talk to members of the Great destructor in 1934. © Tour Times Opening Times Suitable Age Parking more Preston Dock and seating 1,000 people. You can climb the Don’t miss more Control Centre Fishergate, PR1 8AP highest parish church spire in the UK. Navigation Way, Riversway, The Presbytery will also be open serving refreshments. Sunday openings PR2 2YP The first station on the site was built in 1838, Saturday 11.30am – 2.30pm and the current building dates from over the page! Visit the Dock Control Tower and Sunday 2 – 5pm 1880. The large central platform was larger discover the history of Preston Dock. than any of the major London terminals You can follow up the tour with a self-guided > Access: Steps to Presbytery. Spire at the time. By World War I there were 15 trail of more highlights of the Dock’s history. accessed by spiral staircase. platforms, and in both wars a volunteer-run Meet at entrance to building – latecomers Stanley Street, buffet in the current waiting room provided cannot be admitted. St Wilfrid’s Church PR1 4YP free refreshments for servicemen. Meet Chapel Street, off 10.30am, 11.30am, 1pm 16+ at information kiosk in waiting room on Fishergate, PR1 8BU Explore the museum – originally a Ring 01772 253731 or Platforms 3 and 4. law court – which sits on the edge email [email protected] St Wilfrid’s is a Grade 2* of the 1715 battlefield, close to 11am, 1pm, 3pm > Access: Stairs to control centre – no lift. listed Jesuit church, which opened the initial attack. Meet one of the soldiers in 1793. Father ‘Daddy’ Dunn, who made and discover the story of the battle. > Access: Full wheelchair access via ramps Preston Masonic Hall and lift. Accessible toilet. Preston the first gas-lit town outside London, Saturday 10.30am – 5pm, Ashlar House, Saul Street, was the driving force behind its construction. Sunday 12 noon – 5pm Originally a simple and discreet building, it PR1 2QU St Peter’s Church was remodelled in the late 19th century both Saturday 10.30am – 4pm, Arts Centre Sunday 12 noon – 4pm internally and externally. The Masonic Hall opened St Peter’s Square, off Fylde in 1944 on the site of Saul Street Road, PR1 2HE Methodist Church – the gable of the Saturday 1.30 – 5pm Sunday 1 – 4pm > Access: Majority of site is wheelchair 1860 Sunday School is still visible. Visit the St Peter’s is a redundant Grade 2* listed > Access: Full wheelchair access. accessible, but only stair access to upper lodge rooms and museum, see an exhibition church, now used as an arts centre at the Accessible toilet. floor. Accessible toilet. of Masonic regalia and discover the history University of Central Lancashire and not and role of masons in Preston. Museum open Tuesday–Sunday and Bank normally open to the public. It was built The Twelve Tellers Holiday Mondays 11am – 4pm On the hour in the 1820s as an early Commissioners’ 14-15 Church Street, www.lancashire.gov.uk/museums ‘Waterloo’ church – an act of Parliament in > Access: Stepped access to building and 1818 financed the building of nearly 100 PR1 3BQ some areas. Accessible toilet. Anglican churches after the Napoleonic Preston Cleansing Wars. The Grade II listed Department building opened as the Preston Argyll Road, PR1 6JY 10am – 12noon 10am, 11am Savings Bank in 1907, on the site of Lancaster Road, PR1 2RL an older bank dating from 1776. Recently Discover the fascinating history > Access: Gallery accessible by stairs only. restored as a pub, you can still see features of of dealing with Preston’s rubbish, on the site Take a guided tour of the Town Some features restricted by current use the former banking hall, including the vaults, of an early ‘manure depot’. Tour the former Hall, including the Council Chamber. See security gates and panelled boardrooms. In ‘refuse destructor’ built in the 1880s to the splendid civic regalia and learn about St Walburge’s Church 1715 the battle raged on the street outside collect, sort and burn waste. The stables for its fascinating history. Meet the Mayor of Weston Street, off Pedder Street, what was then Mr Eyre’s house where the the council’s horses still have their original Preston in the Mayor’s Parlour. PR2 2QE Jacobites established their headquarters. fittings. Meet outside reception building. 10am, 11am, 1pm Discover Preston’s Saturday 8am – 6pm 10am, 11am, 1pm Ring 01772 253731 or Grade I listed church, designed Sunday 8am – 6pm Ring 01772 253731 or email [email protected] by Joseph Hansom – the man > Access: Lift to first floor – unsuitable for email [email protected] > Access: Full wheelchair access via lift. responsible for the Hansom cab. The wheelchair users. Disabled parking. > Access: Full wheelchair access. Accessible toilet. hammerbeam roof spans a vast open space more The Last Battle Sunday 13 September Preston Playhouse Market Street West, PR1 2HB on English Soil

Join a guided tour of the theatre was fought on the A Rubbish History of including backstage and technical areas and Fishwick Bottoms see a stage set under construction. Find out streets of Preston in Fishwick Recreation Ground, about the history of the building – formerly a London Road, PR2 5AN Friends Meeting House. November 1715. 10am - 4pm Discover the heritage underlying Fishwick Local Nature Reserve from the ice age to the > Access: Wheelchair access to ground Vikings, , an apple orchard floor only. Tour involves three floors with no and old brickworks. Meet at the Recreation lift. Disabled parking. Accessible toilet. Ground car park for a 2–3 hour guided walk. www.prestonplayhouse.com 1pm

Access: Surfaced paths, with some steps and inclines. Disabled parking. Also open Preston Cemetery on Sunday: New Hall Lane, PR1 4SY Avenham and Miller Parks, The cemetery opened in 1855 when many of Preston’s Haslam Park, overcrowded churchyards were closed by Act P.C. Carpets, of Parliament. Join a one-hour guided tour Museum of Lancashire, of the old cemetery visiting the graves of Preston Dock, famous and infamous Prestonians, including Preston Masonic Hall, Joseph Livesey, the founder of teetotalism, Preston Railway Station, and Matthew Brown, the brewer. Meet at St Walburge’s, Cemetery office by main gates. St Wilfrid’s, A of The main Anniversary events take place in 11am, 12 noon, 1pm Twelve Tellers. English and Scottish November 2015: > Access: Uneven paths. Suitable for See Saturday’s listings for Tuesday 10 November wheelchair users with assistance. Disabled full details. supporters of James III, Proclamation of James III on the Flag Market parking. the Catholic claimant to Saturday 14 November the throne, fought the Discover the Battle of Preston at the Minster Government army of King Sunday 15 November George I over two days. Light on the Battle - a performance event in the city centre

Thanks for their support for Preston Heritage Open Weekend also to The sites marked Look out for more details on Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Society www.lfhhs.org and have a connection to the www.prestonguildcity.co.uk/events the Friends of the Harris Museum www.harrismuseum.org.uk battle, or displays where you and for the Battle of Preston 1715 trail and app.

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