Fleetwood Heritage Open Days

This is a fascinating place with a rich local history and lots of heritage buildings – more than you might imagine. With Fleetwood Heritage Open Days=, each year in September, you can look around the ones that interest you!

Heritage Open Days is your chance to look around local historic and interesting buildings for FREE. Some of which you can’t even normally go inside!

Take a look at all the Fleetwood venues and other Fylde Coast Heritage Open Days here.

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Fleetwood Heritage Open Days – Part of a National Event

Wyre is reopening the doors to the past and inviting you to look through them once again. Come along and discover more about the heritage, community and history of our wonderful borough.

• Many places in Wyre are opening their doors to the public. Take a step into the recently renovated Mount pavilion. Or join a tour around Fleetwood’s Masonic Hall. See the spectacular views of Morecambe Bay from the top of the Rossall Point Tower.
• Climb to the top of the Lower Lighthouse and take a look around the historic seafront at Fleetwood, and over to Knott End.

• Fancy a trip to the coast? Join the rangers for the Autumn birdwatch as they observe the last of our summer and the first of wintering birds migrate over Rossall Point and Morecambe Bay.

• Take the opportunity to learn more about the engineering of Marsh Mill and climb to the top.

Fleetwood Heritage Open Days

Heritage Open Days are organised all over the country by groups and Civic Societies, along with English Heritage, who manage the scheme on a national basis.

Fleetwood Civic Society is one of 1400 such organisations. Between them, across the country they muster up 40,000 volunteers to put on this national event every year, that delights over 1 million visitors. Fleetwood Heritage Open Days can say that it’s part of England’s biggest voluntary cultural event!

These events are not organised by Visit Fylde Coast – all details correct at time of publication. Please contact the organisers for further information. 

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Fleetwood Civic Society and Heritage Open Days

Meet Margaret Daniels and Yvonne Johnstone, two passionate women if ever there were! We met on a blustery, showery morning and took a walk to the top of The Mount, where we sheltered from a shower and marvelled at the stunning view.

Fleetwood Civic Society has one simple aim, and in fact it’s one that we share at Visit Fleetwood. It’s to promote Fleetwood and everything that it has to offer and encourage people to see what a marvellous place it is.

Heritage Open Days provides a perfect way to do that, attracting a few thousand people every year, with over 1000 coming to see The Mount and the Lower Lighthouse alone, from not just the Fylde Coast but a good distance inland too.

They’ve shown many children around these buildings from inland towns, the idea being that they instill a taste for the seaside in them and when they go home they enthuse to their parents and create a good impression about how nice Fleetwood is, and the family returns for holidays and outings.

Visit Fleetwood remember the craft shop in The Mount when we first came here over 30 years ago. It was the Civic Society who rescued this unique building from the doldrums after it had been stood empty for years and years. Once they’d campaigned and got the building back into working order, they were based for a long while on the top floor. There, the Civic Society had displays of local memorabilia and kept their headquarters open every weekend for the public to look at.

A Mine of Local Information

These two are a walking mine of local information, and fascinating to hear. Until then I didn’t know that the clock at the top of The Mount was a memorial to the First World War and donated to the local people of Fleetwood. I couldn’t say I’d ever heard it chime, until as we were stood there it did!

Along with many locals, I also didn’t know that our two lighthouses are still working. That’s largely because they are designed to be seen from sea. But if you take a trip up the Lower Lighthouse on Heritage Open Days with Yvonne, she’ll tell you everything that you want to know and more.

Fleetwood Civic Society are responsible for the open days at The Mount and Lower Lighthouse, and individual buildings then look after their own openings.