Heritage Open Days in Loughborough 2025

It's that time of year again, when some of Loughborough's heritage venues throw open their doors for free, or put on a special activity for free! The main theme for this year’s festival is architecture, and the sub-themes are buildings, bridges, and bees! Plenty of opportunity for some imaginative offerings there! 

If you search for Loughborough as a location over on the Heritage Open Days website, you’ll get a list of places taking part in this year’s event, as well as a selection of guided walks. This link might be a shortcut to that list.

These are the walks on offer:

There will be a walk around Loughborough’s Art Deco town centre buildings, led by an accredited Leicestershire Tour Guide!

Another guided walk will feature buildings in the town centre designed by local, regional, or national architects

Bee-related features will be the focus of another guided walk

There will be several opportunities to walk around Queen’s Park, looking at the architecture, the buildings, the bridges, and the bee-related features, as well as to listen to the Carillon and/or band recital

 

The Loughborough Library Local Studies Volunteer Group will be leading walks around the old Mediaeval town area

In no particular order, these are the venues that are taking part in the Heritage Open Days

• The church of All Saints with Holy Trinity will be offering guided tours
• The Loughborough Grammar School main building, including the tower, will be open
• The Carillon Tower and War Memorial will be open and you are invited to bring along your military memorabilia for discussion
• Garendon Park will be open for you to explore
• Taylor’s Bellfoundry Museum will be open and bookable casting tours are on offer
• The Generator Building will be sharing stories and memories from their oral history project
• The Old Rectory Museum will be open and putting on some special activities
• Transition Loughborough will be at Fearon Hall for an apple pressing session
• The Great Central Railway will be offering free access to its public areas (note this doesn’t include train travel)
• The TOWN Observatory will be sharing their progress 
• The Anstey Wallpaper Company are offering tours of the building which was previously home to Ladybird Books

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MORE DETAILS ON THE ABOVE EVENTS, LIKE DATE AND TIME ETC., AND INFORMATION ON BOOKING, IF BOOKING IS REQUIRED, CAN BE FOUND ON THE HERITAGE OPEN DAYS WEBSITE, UNDER THE SPECIFIC ENTRY FOR EACH VENUE / EVENT.    

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