Heritage Open Days
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All around the country, Heritage Open Days 2026 attracted visitors to enjoy and explore local heritage in castles, cottages, factories and workshops around the theme of ‘everyday lives of working people’. Locally we recorded over 250 visits to events that highlighted working life at: railways with Bideford Heritage Railway Centre and Tarka Valley Rail, steamship…
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On the site which is now the Rose Saltern on Bridgeland Street (Wetherspoons) the original buildings dated back to when the street was first laid out in 1691. This is one of the sites we’ll be featuring next Thursday 17 September as we celebrate a Heritage Open Day in Bridgeland Street. The original building was…
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Heritage Open Days are coming to Torridge, courtesy of the Heritage Harbour and our partners. Billed as ‘England’s largest festival of history and culture’ Heritage Open Days run from 11 to 20 September this year. Thousands of volunteers across England organise events to celebrate their local history and culture. It’s a chance to see hidden…
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With so much heritage surrounding us, it was disappointing that last year there were only two local organisations taking part in the annual celebration of England’s history and culture known as Heritage Open Days (Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own). This year, Bideford and River Torridge Heritage Harbour has stepped in to ensure that more events…
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One of the most distinctive features of the creative heritage of our part of the world is the ornamental plasterwork dating from the seventeenth century which decorates some of our historic houses. One of the masterworks is the magnificent barrel-vaulted ceiling at Lanhydrock House, recently restored, in which scenes from the Old Testament are intermingled…
