Tag: Heritage Open Days

‘Silver End 100’: Heritage Open Day Celebrates Industrial Company Housing in Essex, 13th September

‘Silver End 100’: Heritage Open Day Celebrates Industrial Company Housing in Essex, 13th September

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During the 19th and early 20th century industrial companies provided housing and community facilities for their workforce, demonstrating both philanthropy and good business sense. Essex has a number of examples of this which will be celebrated on 13th September, as part of Heritage Open Days at Silver End village.

Silver End Heritage Society and the Essex Industrial Archaeology Group are running the celebration day with talks, walks, and displays exploring the company housing of Silver End village, built by the Crittall family who manufactured metal window frames. Details on the events and how to book the tours are below.

Heritage Open Days, 2024: Still Time to Register Your Industrial Site

Heritage Open Days, 2024: Still Time to Register Your Industrial Site

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There’s still time to register your industrial heritage site for 2024’s Heritage Open Days. Last year more than 200 industrial heritage sites took part, offering free events across England, and raising awareness about their activities and history.

Overall, there were more than 923,000 festival visits across 5,282 heritage events in England – the highest number of visitors for England’s largest festival of history and culture ever recorded. More details for the 2023 event here: https://heritageopendays.org.uk/resource/festival-review-2023.html

Heritage Open Days offers free access to organisers to a wide range of support materials and guidance including bunting and risk assessment templates. Its also a chance to connect with people across the country, with over 2,000+ organisers meeting to share ideas.

For more details about online registration by 8 August follow this link: https://bit.ly/England_Heritage_Open_Days_2024

Heritage Open Day at The Historic England Archive

Heritage Open Day at The Historic England Archive

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The Historic England Archive will be participating in the Heritage Open Days 2023 events on 9 September. This event is FREE to attend. The Heritage Open Days theme this year is ‘Creativity Unwrapped,’ and runs from 8-17 September throughout England.

Historic England will be using the day to explore creativity in their collections. To book a place follow this link: https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/archive/heritage-open-day/