Unlike last year’s heritage day this year’s open day is not very well publicised. As I’ve been getting some searches on this I thought I’d put in some details for this year.

The Ipswich heritage day in 2010 will be, as usual, two days, Saturday 11th Septembter and Sunday 12th September. English heritage list the following attractions:

* Admiral’s House
* Arlingtons Brasserie (the original Ipswich museum, hence why Museum Street has no museum on it)
* Bethesda Baptist Chapel
* Broomhill Pool
* Christ Church, Tacket Street
* Freston Tower
* Holy Trinity Church, Bishops Hill / Back Hamlet
* Ipswich School – Exclusive school and Socialist blogger hangout
* Ipswich Unitarian Meeting House
* Pykenham’s Gatehouse
* Ipswich Institute Reading Room and Library
* Sproughton Tithe Barn (totally refurbished apparently)
* St Lawrence’s Church
* St Peter’s Church
* The Old Custom House
* Town Hall
* Waterfront Building, University Campus Suffolk
* Willis Building (surprisingly good if you haven’t seen it)

The opening times vary so please go to the English heritage website.

The Ipswich Society is organising some local building openings on Saturday.  The timetable is here:

http://www.ipswichsociety.org.uk/events/

The only one I can see in Bridge is Saint Mary’s at Stoke church, which is two minutes away from me in Rectory Road.

Some nearby attractions that are open are:

• The Willis Building
• The Old Custom House
• Unitarian Meeting House
• St Mary At The Quay
• St Peter’s Church
• The Mansion, Wherstead

I definately want to see the Old Custom House.

The details of the opening times are in the following PDF leaflet:

http://www.ipswichsociety.org.uk/events/HeritageDay2009.pdf