The weekend is co-ordinated by Preston History Network and supported by UCLan, Preston CC, Winckley Square CIC and Friends. Thank you to all the sites for their enthusiastic participation. #HODsPreston Saturday 14andSunday 15September 2019 Step through historic doors into some of Step throughhistoric doorsintosomeof Events from Friday13toSunday 22September Preston’s fascinating buildings www.visitpreston.com Use the map to find your way around! Art Direction and Design: madebymason.co.uk @made_by_mason on instagram Discover Dob Croft Lancashire Archives Welcome to Preston Intact, 49 Whitby Avenue, Jeremiah Horrocks Bow Lane, PR1 2RE and 30 fascinating Ingol, PR2 3YP Observatory Moor Park, off Blackpool heritage sites with The Archives are marking the Dob Croft nature reserve is on the /Garstang Roads PR1 1NN Peterloo massacre in 1819 with stories to tell. site of the former brickworks in Ingol, and displays of the personal papers of orator home to the Great Crested Newt. Tours of Visit the observatory in Moor Park, named Henry Hunt, and magistrate William Hulton, Dob Croft, a history talk, and family friendly after the Lancashire astronomer who who ordered the yeomanry intervention. Explore the city centre and activities reveal the natural, industrial and first observed the transit of Venus. It was Take a tour behind the scenes and see more built in 1927 and houses a historic Cooke beyond, and discover places and social heritage of this site. treasures in a strongroom. Listen to creative 8 inch refractor telescope, and displays of responses to Peterloo at 2pm. history you never knew about 2 – 5pm meteorites and astronomical history. Preston 10am – 3.30pm Preston. > Access: Accessible toilets at Intact. Level and District Astronomical Society will give short talks on astronomy and, weather gravel path on reserve. 10.15am, 11.15am, 12.15pm, 1.15pm permitting, show visitors solar observing. Share your experiences Also open Friday 13 September 11am – 2pm Access: Lift access to all areas. Accessible toilets Fishwick Bottoms - Saturday 10am – 2.30pm The Archives are open Tuesday-Friday #HODsPreston a Rubbish History and 2nd Saturday of the month Sunday 10am – 2.30pm Fishwick Recreation Ground, www.lancashire.gov.uk/archives > Access: Fully accessible Saturday 14 September London Road, PR1 4AP Discover the heritage underlying Fishwick Kennington Primary Local Nature Reserve from the ice age to the ‘Bubble’ classroom Church Cottage Museum Vikings, Oliver Cromwell, an apple orchard and Kennington Road, Church Lane, off Garstang Road old brickworks. Meet at the Recreation Ground Fulwood, PR2 8ER Broughton, PR3 5JB car park for a 2–3 hour walk. Wear sturdy shoes and suitable clothes for the weather. The ‘bubble’ classroom was the first fully Church Cottage 1pm structural plastic building in Britain. It was a Museum is a 16th century gem, prototype for pre-fabricated mass-produced telling the story of the building’s > Access: Steep slopes & steps in some areas. schools, but the oil crisis in 1973 made many lives as a Tudor dwelling, an 18th Accessible toilet. plastic buildings too costly. It remains a century inn, a Victorian schoolroom and a one-off, now Grade 2 listed. 20th century home. With St John Baptist Lancashire Harris Museum, 10am – 12 noon Parish Church and the National School, Art Gallery and Library Conservation now the primary school, it forms the Market Square, PR1 2PP > Access: Fully accessible Studios Broughton Village Heritage Centre. St Mary’s Church, St Mary’s 12 noon – 5pm The Grade I listed Harris Street, PR1 5LN > Access: Steps to ground and first floors is full of intriguing details - with original radiators, mosaic floors and Tour the museum conservation studios in an http://broughtonparish.org.uk/church- early Victorian church, where historic objects cottage-museum/ ironwork. Visit the Egyptian balcony with its stunning views through the building. and art are cleaned and restored. Relax in Queues likely. Also open on Wednesday 18 the surrounding wildlife garden with graves Icon Key Booking Details September 5.30 – 7.30pm. telling stories of hard times in Preston. Building 10am – 5pm Building open and object identifications on Tour Times Opening Times Egyptian Balcony 1 – 3pm Wednesday 18 September 6 – 8pm. Saturday 10am – 4pm > Access: Egyptian Balcony is up steep, Refreshments Toilets narrow steps. Every 30 minutes www.theharris.org.uk Suitable Age Parking > Access: Full access to studios. Gravel paths in graveyard. Accessible toilet. Lancashire Infantry Museum Preston Masonic Hall St George’s Church Fulwood Barracks, Watling Street Ashlar House, Saul Between Lune Street and Road, PR2 8AB Street, PR1 2QU Friargate, PR1 2NP Visit the museum and meet The Masonic Hall St George’s is tucked away soldiers from the American War of opened in 1944 on the site of a behind the shopping centre that takes Independence and World War I. Take a tour Methodist Church – the 1860 Sunday School its name. The Grade 2* listed church is of the usually inaccessible Barracks, built gable is still visible. Visit the lodge rooms and the oldest surviving in Preston. after the 1842 Plug riots. Find out about the museum, see Masonic regalia and discover It was built in 1725–26 as a chapel of ease to buildings’ important role in the history of the the history and role of masons in Preston. St John’s Church, Preston, and enlarged in Garrison city of Preston. 1799. The stone exterior was added in 1843, Courtesy of BDP Saturday 10am – 4pm 11am – 4pm On the hour just before St George’s became a parish in its Preston Bus Station > Access: Steps to entrance and some areas. own right. Further work added the chancel, a 10.30am, 12 noon and 2pm remodelled nave and a gallery. Tithebarn Street, PR1 1YT Ramp access at side. Accessible toilet. > Photo ID needed. Please check Saturday 10am – 4pm Preston Railway Station Sunday 1 – 4pm museum website for up-to-date Preston Bus Station is arrangements. 50 years old this year. Fishergate, PR1 8AP > Access: Full wheelchair access. Accessible > Access: Full access except Chapel Now Grade 2 listed, it was saved toilet. Disabled parking. The Museum is open The first station was from demolition after a 13-year campaign. Tuesday–Thursday and Saturday built in 1838, and the Join a tour led by one of the campaigners St Michael and www.lancashireinfantrymuseum.org.uk current building is from 1880. to explore this internationally significant All Angels Church The central platform was then building, designed by local architects Moor Park Heritage Walk larger than any major London terminal. Tulketh Road, BDP. The recent restoration won several Off Blackpool/Garstang Roads, By World War I there were 15 platforms, and Ashton-on-Ribble, PR2 1AJ RIBA awards. The exhibition Beautiful and PR1 1NN in both wars a volunteer-run buffet in the Brutal: 50 Years of Preston Bus Station is at waiting room provided free refreshments for This Grade 2* listed, red sandstone the Harris 21 September – 24 November. Join a guided walk round the servicemen. Meet at the front of the station. building dates from 1908. Wander round Grade 2* listed Moor Park, one of the first 11am, 12noon, 2pm, 3pm 11am, 1pm, 3pm the gardens and enjoy a self-guided tour municipal parks, laid out in the 1830s. Essential Online at Eventbrite – inside the church, including an exhibition > Access: Full wheelchair access via ramps about the Lancaster architects, Austin and From Horses to Hospitals – discover In Certain Places and lift. Accessible toilet. Guild celebrations, horseracing, and the > Access: Partial wheelchair access Paley and piano recitals. Find out about refurbished grotto and decorative gardens. Preston Town Hall Alice Livesey, commemorated in the Lady Chapel. Church history on sale. Meet at the Observatory. Preston Markets Lancaster Road, PR1 2RL 10am – 4pm 11.15am Heritage Tour Box Market, Birley Street, PR1 2PT Visit the Council Chamber at the > Access: Fully accessible > Access: Partial wheelchair access. heart of the Grade 2 listed Town www.stmichaelspreston.co.uk Accessible toilet. Disabled parking. Discover the ever-evolving history Hall and discover how local decisions are St Peter’s Church – of Preston’s markets – including the Market made there. See the splendid civic regalia Hall and Box Market under the Grade 2 listed and learn about its fascinating history. And UCLan Arts Centre Don’t miss canopies built in 1875 and 1925. The tour is visit the Mayor in his Parlour. St Peter’s Square, off Fylde led by the Senior Market Manager and lasts 10am, 11.30am Road, PR1 2HE more Sunday about an hour. Free drinks voucher to use in > Access: Full wheelchair access via lift. St Peter’s is a Grade 2* listed ‘Waterloo’ Preston Markets at the end of the tour. Meet Accessible toilet. church – financed by an act of Parliament openings over at Market Office. after the Napoleonic Wars – with fine 10am, 12 noon Scan the QR code interior ironwork decoration. Now used as the page! an Arts Centre at the University of Central Essential. Call 01772 906048 or to find out more Lancashire, so some features are restricted. email [email protected] More information information about 11am – 3pm about all the openings at > Access: Full wheelchair access all the openings. > Access: From Adelphi Street only, www.heritageopendays.org.uk through campus to north side of church. St Walburge’s Winckley Square Gardens Broughton Walks Preston Playhouse Church off Fishergate, PR1 3JJ Church car park, off Market Street West, PR1 2HB Weston Street, off Garstang Road, Broughton Pedder Street, PR2 2QE Discover Preston’s only Join a guided tour of the theatre Georgian square in five Discover the history of the village including backstage and technical Discover Preston’s Grade I listed church, guided walks covering the stories of former of Broughton with two guided walks.