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Saturday August 19, 2017
What's On Knutsford
Knutsford Town Council Offices
Heritage Open Day: Designed by the Lancaster architect Edmund Sharpe and built in 1844 as house for the Governor of Knutsford Goal, this Grade II...
Knutsford Town Council, Council Offices, Toft Road, Knutsford
Thu 7 Sep to Sat 9 Sep
Knutsford Discovering Alison Uttley
Heritage Open Day: Alison Uttley is famous as the author of the Little Grey Rabbit children’s books. Born on a hill farm in Derbyshire at the end of...
Knutsford Library, Toft Road, Knutsford
Thu 7 Sep
Knutsford Barclays Digital Eagles Coding Workshop for children
Heritage Open Day: Alan Turing is the father of theoretical computer science and Manchester is the birthplace of the first computer. Coding is the...
Knutsford Library, Toft Road, Knutsford
Sat 9 Sep
Knutsford Library Mark Radcliffe reads from Alison Uttley classics
Heritage Open Day: Alison Uttley was the author of many much-loved children’s classics such as the ’Little Grey Rabbit’ series.Her...
Toft Road, Knutsford
Sat 9 Sep
UNSUNG STORIES: ’Regina v Turing and Murray’ Exhibition & VR
Heritage Open Day: This new immersive work from creative company RE-DOCK (working with the local community and LGBTQ artists across Greater...
The Courthouse Hotel, Toft Road, Knutsford
Thu 7 Sep to Sun 10 Sep
Knutsford Robert ’Judge’ Rinder reads the Quarter Sessions records
Heritage Open Day: Robert ‘Judge’ Rinder is the star of the popular TV shows ‘Judge Rinder’ and ‘Judge Rinder’s Crime Stories’. He is the...
The Courthouse Hotel, Toft Road, Knutsford
Fri 8 Sep
Knutsford ’The Brilliance of the Turing-Welchman Bombe’
Heritage Open Day: PAUL KELLAR MBE is a trustee of the Turing-Welchman Bombe Rebuild Trust that rebuilt, maintains and runs the famous code-breaking...
The Courthouse Hotel, Toft Road, Knutsford
Fri 8 Sep
Knutsford ’Alan Turing: Decoded’
Heritage Open Day: Sir Dermot Turing gives his unique insight into the life, work and legacy of his famous uncle, Alan Turing. This family...
The Courthouse Hotel, Toft Road, Knutsford
Fri 8 Sep
Knutsford Jonathan Swinton: ’Life, You Will Lose a Lover When I Die’
Heritage Open Day: In 1952, local character witness Max Newman told the Knutsford Sessions House that Alan Turing was not just a friend but a...
The Courthouse Hotel, Toft Road, Knutsford
Fri 8 Sep
Knutsford Enigma Demonstrations in The Courthouse
Heritage Open Day: Paul Brougham runs The Enigma Hut, a specialist Enigma reproduction company that supplies WW2 historians, collectors; cypher...
The Courthouse Hotel, Toft Road, Knutsford
Fri 8 Sep
Knutsford RE-DOCK Drop-in workshops with Sam Meech
Heritage Open Day: Re-Dock, the artist collective based in Manchester and Liverpool, is behind the landmark art event ’Regina v Turing and...
The Courthouse Hotel, Toft Road, Knutsford
Sun 10 Sep
Knutsford Art in Heritage Spaces
Heritage Open Day: Displaying art or putting on performing arts pieces in heritage spaces demands particular skills and considerations. This event...
The Courthouse Hotel, Toft Road, Knutsford
Sun 10 Sep
Knutsford Hollingford House (Arthur Lee Interiors)
Heritage Open Day: This Georgian period town house, now Arthur Lee Interiors, was once the home of Elizabeth Gaskell’s uncle, Dr Peter Holland...
Arthur Lee Furniture, Hollingford House, Toft Road, Knutsford
Thu 7 Sep to Sat 9 Sep
Fine Antiques & Interiors Auction
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Knutsford Saleroom, Marshall House, Church Hill, Knutsford, Cheshire, .
Tue 5 Sep
Knutsford St John’s Church
Heritage Open Day: St John’s Church was newly commissioned under the architect John Garlive -the man who designed Booths Hall for Peter Legh....
St. John the Baptist Parish Church, Church Hill, Knutsford
Thu 7 Sep and Fri 8 Sep
Knutsford Cheshire Fire & Rescue Service Choir at St John’s
Heritage Open Day: The Fire Choir was first seen on national television in the second season of the BBC’s Sing While You Work with Gareth Malone....
St John the Baptist Church, Church Hill, Knutsford
Sat 9 Sep
Knutsford ’Money Markets and Mathematics’
Heritage Open Day: Mathematicians and academic statisticians are now vital to money markets, trading, economic forecasting and investment. In fact,...
Brook Street Chapel, Adams Hill, Knutsford
Thu 7 Sep
Knutsford Time Traveller by Paul Hurley
Heritage Open Day: Paul Hurley is the local author of ‘Knutsford History Tour’ and ‘Knutsford and District Through Time’. In this talk Paul will...
Brook Street Chapel, Adams Hill, Knutsford
Thu 7 Sep
Knutsford ’Regina v Turing and Murray’ Quarter Sessions records
Heritage Open Day: In 1952, at the Sessions House in Knutsford (now The Courthouse Hotel), Turing was prosecuted for homosexual acts in the trial...
Brook Street Chapel Heritage Site, Adams Hill, Knutsford
Thu 7 Sep to Sun 10 Sep
Knutsford Brook Street Heritage Site
Heritage Open Day: Brook Street Heritage site comprises a Grade I listed Chapel built in 1687 - Knutsford’s oldest place of worship - and...
Brook Street, Knutsford
Thu 7 Sep to Sun 10 Sep
Knutsford Methodist Church
Heritage Open Day: Knutsford Methodist Church is 152 years old and has a beautiful Rose window at the front of the worship area.
The founder of...
Knutsford Methodist Church, Princess Street, Knutsford
Fri 8 Sep to Sun 10 Sep
Knutsford The Belle Époque
Heritage Open Day: Richard Harding Watt (1842-1914) was a local philanthropist and idealist with a passion for building, who made his fortune from...
The Belle Epoque, 60 King Street, Knutsford
Thu 7 Sep
Knutsford Moor Art
Heritage Open Day: Moor Art Knutsford is an exciting ‘Art on the Railings’ event put on especially for Knutsford Heritage Open Days. As a truly...
The Moor, Knutsford
Sun 10 Sep
Knutsford The Lost & Found and the Secret Bar
Heritage Open Day: The Lost & Found is housed in the building known locally as the Old Town Hall (despite never having been used as such!). It was...
The Lost & Found, Princess Street, Knutsford
Thu 7 Sep to Sun 10 Sep
Knutsford Penny Farthing Museum & Courtyard Cafe
Heritage Open Day: The UK’s only museum of its kind, Knutsford’s Penny Farthing Museum is housed within Grade II listed building, originally...
Rear of 92 King Street, Knutsford
Thu 7 Sep to Sun 10 Sep