HERITAGE OPEN DAY
SUNDAY 15TH SEPTEMBER 11-5PM
⭐️ This Sunday from 11-5, it’s Heritage Open Day at Wainsgate Chapel with lots to see and do including:
🖌🖍✏️Creative map making and writing for all ages exploring the chapel and grounds with artists Amanda Allan and Jo Gorner and writer Amanda Dalton from 11.30-2.30;
📱 A QR code trail around the graveyard and building all day discovering the histories of some of the fascinating people and objects here, so bring your smartphones;
🎼 The Wainsgate organ will be played by renowned organist Darius Battiwaller who has played with the likes of the BBC and London Philharmionic Orchestras at 3pm;
📻 You can listen to recorded interviews with local people with projected images about Wainsgate’s past in the vestry;
🌏 Upstairs there will be a fun display about some of the people who’ve arrived to a departed from the area and you can map out your own or others journeys on the giant map there too;
📜 Chris Barnett, who founded and maintains the Wainsgate Graveyard Project website will also be there to answer questions about people buried here and other aspects of the history of Wainsgate,
🍰 ☕ 🥂 And last, but by no means least, there will be lots of delicious cakes, tea/coffee and prosecco and lively conversation in the Wainsgate cafe
https://wainsgate.co.uk/
🖌🖍✏️Creative map making and writing for all ages exploring the chapel and grounds with artists Amanda Allan and Jo Gorner and writer Amanda Dalton from 11.30-2.30;
📱 A QR code trail around the graveyard and building all day discovering the histories of some of the fascinating people and objects here, so bring your smartphones;
🎼 The Wainsgate organ will be played by renowned organist Darius Battiwaller who has played with the likes of the BBC and London Philharmionic Orchestras at 3pm;
📻 You can listen to recorded interviews with local people with projected images about Wainsgate’s past in the vestry;
🌏 Upstairs there will be a fun display about some of the people who’ve arrived to a departed from the area and you can map out your own or others journeys on the giant map there too;
📜 Chris Barnett, who founded and maintains the Wainsgate Graveyard Project website will also be there to answer questions about people buried here and other aspects of the history of Wainsgate,
🍰 ☕ 🥂 And last, but by no means least, there will be lots of delicious cakes, tea/coffee and prosecco and lively conversation in the Wainsgate cafe
https://wainsgate.co.uk/
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