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Heritage Open Weekend
Sep. 13th, 2010 10:26 pmThere didn't seem to be as much open this year as there has been in previous years - and we were busy doing other things, and were quite relieved that there wasn't as much to tempt us.
Despite which...
We visited Old Durham Gardens - not just the lower gardens, which are permanently accessible from the riverside footpath, but the walled upper garden, which a newly formed Friends group is taking in hand. Worth the trip not only for the gardens themselves, but also for some fine views of the Cathedral, including a totally unfamiliar perspective on the great rose window in the east.
On Saturday morning we took a guided tour of Vane Tempest Hall, built in the 1860s to house the militia and now a community centre - more original features than I had expected, and there will, in due course, be pictures.
Finally, K and B were visiting us on Sunday, and volunteered that they would like to see the archaeology museum at the Old Fulling Mill - technically part of the Open Weekend because admission, for which there is normally a small charge, is free. So we did that: it's a pleasant little museum, with some interesting bits and pieces (some of them excavated in the ten years or more since I last visited the museum), and if you weary of the display, you can always look out of the windows at the river rushing past.
Despite which...
We visited Old Durham Gardens - not just the lower gardens, which are permanently accessible from the riverside footpath, but the walled upper garden, which a newly formed Friends group is taking in hand. Worth the trip not only for the gardens themselves, but also for some fine views of the Cathedral, including a totally unfamiliar perspective on the great rose window in the east.On Saturday morning we took a guided tour of Vane Tempest Hall, built in the 1860s to house the militia and now a community centre - more original features than I had expected, and there will, in due course, be pictures.
Finally, K and B were visiting us on Sunday, and volunteered that they would like to see the archaeology museum at the Old Fulling Mill - technically part of the Open Weekend because admission, for which there is normally a small charge, is free. So we did that: it's a pleasant little museum, with some interesting bits and pieces (some of them excavated in the ten years or more since I last visited the museum), and if you weary of the display, you can always look out of the windows at the river rushing past.
