Category: Industrial Heritage

Heritage NewsDesk: Get Involved and Hold Your Own Heritage Open Day

The 2026 Heritage Open Days will take place from 11 to 20 September. Heritage Open Days is England’s largest community-led festival of history and culture, involving thousands of local volunteers and organisations. Every year in September it brings people together to celebrate their heritage, community, and history. Stories are told, traditions explored, and histories brought to life. All the events are free.

269 industrial heritage sites in England took part in Heritage Open Days (HoD) 2025, offering guided walks, talks, and exhibitions as well as hands on experiences. If you would like to take part then the HoD website has full details on how to list a site, event, and/or acitvity.

For further details on how to take part as an event and/or site organiser follow this link: Get involved

Heritage NewsDesk: Tell SPAB About Your Historic Windmill or Water Mill

Mills Now & Then – SPAB Call for Your Mill Histories

Bygone Days: Britain’s Coal Mining Industry

An optimistic view of the coal mining industry’s future in 1981. By the end of the 20th century, the industry had ceased to exist.

Hotel Review: Doubletree by Hilton Stoke-on-Trent

This review gives a comprehensive description of the Doubletree by Hilton Stoke-on-Trent. It also introduces its readers to Middleport Pottery, the Emma Bridgewater Factory, the Gladstone Pottery Museum and Biddulph Grange Gardens.

Review: Doubletree by Hilton Stoke-on-Trent

Keep Walsall Leather Museum Open

North Staffordshire Heritage supports the campaign to save Walsall Leather Museum. This fascinating and unique museum must be saved. It is a local and regional asset that can easily be transformed into a significant national and international heritage tourism attraction. North Staffordshire Heritage takes no pleasure in reminding the local council that a town or city that destroys its heritage is a town or city without a future. We ask everyone in the UK who cares about our country’s history and heritage to sign the Petition to keep the museum open. Remember that once it’s gone, it’s gone!

Petition Opened to Stop the Closure of the Walsall Leather Museum