thebestof oswestry Heritage Open Days: Oswestry & Beyond - 08 September 2011 - Various around Oswestry

THE HERITAGE OPEN DAYS PROGRAMME

Free regular minibus tours

…on Saturday and Sunday throughout the day between 10am &4pm: " Around the Town" & "Railway & Industrial Heritage". Both will start and finish from the guildhall. All entrance to event are free during Heritage Open Days.

LATE UPDATE: Due to unforeseen circumstances, Oswald's Bell Tower is now from 10am to 12 (rather than 2pm) 

THURSDAY, 8TH SEPTEMBER

10-4pm Tanat Valley Light Railway, NantMawr Visitor Centre
Museum, railway rides, woodland walks and nature trail, outdoor stage and land art project.
 Free refreshments especially for Heritage Open Days.

10-3pm Cambrian Railway Museum
Fabulous local railway museum.

12 Noon Whittington Castle
Past Present and Future: Guided tour with Costumed Guide.

9.30-4.30pm Oswestry Visitor Centre
Wilfred Owen & St Oswald Exhibitions upstairs

7.30pm Oswestry Library
Library Talk by 
Lynn Yates: John Thomas of Ardmillan House - a Victorian gentleman

FRIDAY, 9TH SEPTEMBER

10-4pm Tanat Valley Light Railway, NantMawr Visitor Centre
Museum, railway rides, woodland walks and nature trail, outdoor stage and land art project.
 Free refreshments especially for Heritage Open Days.

1.30-4.30pm Oswestry Library
Family and Local History Afternoon.
4-5pm Family learning event (for adults and children over 8years) learn how to research your family history
4-5pm Storytelling event with Helen East for children under 8 years- "our own most treasured objects- stories in cloth"

9.30-4.30pm Oswestry Visitor Centre
Wilfred Owen & St Oswald Exhibitions upstairs

10-3pm Cambrian Railway Museum
Fabulous local railway museum.

7.30pm Oswestry Border History and Archaeology Group
Talk by Janine Young on Defence, Decadence and Decline: the archaeology of Erdigg
Venue: Memorial Hall, Smithfield Street

SATURDAY, 10th SEPTEMBER

10-5.30pm Tanat Valley Light Railway, NantMawr Visitor Centre
Museum, railway rides, woodland walks and nature trail, outdoor stage and land art project.
 Free refreshments especially for Heritage Open Days.

10-4pm Oswestry Town Council
Saints and Sinners- crime through the ages/ past history of county court

10-4pm Oswestry Town Council in the Guildhall (2nd Floor)
Oswestry Museum Displays:
Oswestry & Border History & Archaeology Group: Old Oswestry Hillfort
Llanymynech Heritage Area
The Orthopaedic Experience- A display of orthopaedic artefacts
Welsh Guards Museum
Civic Society: Building Awards, Early Charters and Publications
Joint Railways: Tanat Valley/Cambrian Heritage Railways inc.Llynclys
Oswestry Library Local History
Oswestry Museum Interest Cabinet

11am-2pm Old Oswestry Hillfort
Guided walks - FREE transport available to site 11am & 2pm

At 11am and at 2pm Whittington Castle
Illustrated Talk- History of the castle by local historian Sylvia Ray to be followed by Guided Tour.

3.30pm Pontcysyllte World Heritage Site
Guided walk of natural and historical heritage of the site including why Telford's ideas changed the world. Meeting at canal behind the Poachers Pocket Pub in Gledrid. Map ref SJ298 364

9.30-4.30pm Oswestry Visitor Centre
Wilfred Owen & St Oswald Exhibitions upstairs

7.15-9pm Attfield Theatre with Kinokulture
A specially selected programme of archive films from the local area and the national archives. Featuring: Love Letters and Live Wires from the National Archive. Full details www.kinokulture.org.uk

10-4pm Park Hall Countryside Experience
Visit the Victorian School and Welsh Guards Collection

10-12 noon St Oswald's Bell Tower
Tours to the Bell Tower - limited numbers.

10-4pm Hermon Chapel
Time line display capturing early memories of its life & events

10-3pm Cambrian Railway Museum
Fabulous local railway museum.

10-4pm Oswestry Station
Trains running throughout the day

11-4pm Llynclys Station
Train running (DMU Diesel) Half hourly from Llynclys to Pen y Garreg Lane Halt
Oswestry Railway Walk
Catch the train from Llynclys Station to the new Pen y Garreg Halt and take the footpath along an old tramway to the Montgomery Canal. There are easy walks to Llanymynech Limeworks Area and to Redwith Bridge, the furthest point reached by the canal restoration.

SUNDAY, 11th SEPTEMBER

2pm Starting at the Guildhall
A Guided Walk Through Oswestry's Past.

10-4pm Whittington Castle
The House of the Blackstar Medieval Re-enactors. Stalls, weapon displays, archery and talks.
Free entry but £1 to park.

11-4pm Llanymynech Heritage Area
Lime Kilns: Demonstration of Lime Burning at the Stable Block Education Centre. Guided tours of site and industrial archaeology: kilns, tramways, tally house and wharfage. Nature and Wildlife Trails.. Museum on the Move 'Our changing World-the Dinosaur, the Dodo and the Dormouse'.
11-4pm Canal artefacts, local crafts and canal boat trips
7-9pm Light Show in the Hoffman Kiln by Freya Evans

10-5.30pm Tanat Valley Light Railway, NantMawr Visitor Centre
Museum, railway rides, woodland walks and nature trail, outdoor stage and land art project.
 Free refreshments especially for Heritage Open Days.

1.45pm Meet by the Wynnstay Inn, Llansilin
Sycharth: A walk through history with local storyteller, Helen East. Part of the 'After Offa: Living Life along the Border' Community Heritage Project. Meet by the Wynnstay Inn, Llansilin 1:45pm Map ref: SJ209279

10-4pm Park Hall Countryside Experience
Visit the Victorian School and Welsh Guards Collection

10-4pm Oswestry Town Council
Saints and Sinners- crime through the ages/ past history of county court

10-4pm Oswestry Town Council in the Guildhall (2nd Floor)
Oswestry Museum Displays:
Oswestry & Border History & Archaeology Group: Old Oswestry Hillfort
Llanymynech Heritage Area
The Orthopaedic Experience- A display of orthopaedic artefacts
Welsh Guards Museum
Civic Society: Building Awards, Early Charters and Publications
Joint Railways: Tanat Valley/Cambrian Heritage Railways inc.Llynclys
Oswestry Library Local History
Oswestry Museum Interest Cabinet

10-3pm Cambrian Railway Museum
Fabulous local railway museum.

10-4pm Oswestry Station
Trains running throughout the day

11-4pm Llynclys Station
Train running (DMU Diesel) Half hourly from Llynclys to Pen y Garreg Lane Halt
Oswestry Railway Walk
Catch the train from Llynclys Station to the new Pen y Garreg Halt and take the footpath along an old tramway to the Montgomery Canal. There are easy walks to Llanymynech Limeworks Area and to Redwith Bridge, the furthest point reached by the canal restoration.

Free regular "Hop On Hop Off" Minibus Tours

…on Saturday and Sunday throughout the day between 10am &4pm: " Around the Town" & "Railway & Industrial Heritage". Both will start and finish from the guildhall. All entrance to event are free during Heritage Open Days.