Heritage Open Day
Sat, 16 Sept
|Bridge View Light Railway
An exhibition of quilts, patchwork & costumes from the 1950s – 80s, with miniature trains built from the mid 20th-century to the latest designs running on our volunteer run community railway.
Time & Location
16 Sept 2023, 11:00 – 15:00
Bridge View Light Railway, Russells Garden Centre, Mill Hill, Baginton, Coventry CV8 3AG, UK
About the event
Heritage Open Days is England’s largest festival of history and culture. Running for ten days every September, the festival offers access to heritage events and activities across England. The theme for this year is "Creativity Unwrapped"
At Bridge View Light Railway there will be a ‘Cover Up’ Patchwork Exhibition by The Jane Cobbett Collection of Historic Textiles
This informal exhibition '' is part of an Educational Collection of patchwork owned by Jane Cobbett who uses them in her textile classes, talks and workshops as examples of traditional hand and machine techniques. Last seen in Coventry over 5 years ago these items will be on display in a garden setting and marquee.Cover Up
There will also be a range of displays and attractions for the whole family. Originally devised in the Victorian period, ‘model engineering’ 7¼‘’ railways like ours play host to a range of train shapes, sizes and ages with…