Crewe Heritage Open Days schedule announced: walks, talks, guided tours and more!

The Crewe Town Council seasonal summer programme is brought to an end with our FREE 
Heritage Open Days event, which runs between 8 and 17 September 2023. Heritage Open 
Days is a national festival celebrating local grass roots heritage, making it accessible to local 
communities. Crewe Town Council has led on facilitating this event to bring Heritage Open 
Days to Crewe for the second year running.

Whether you want to peek behind the scenes at Crewe Lyceum (the only Edwardian theatre 
in Cheshire East!), explore inside a Railway Cottage, or go along to insightful talks by local 
experts, we have something for you at Crewe Heritage Open Days!

The full schedule of events has now been announced and can be accessed through our 
Crewe Town Council Heritage Open Days webpage:
www.crewetowncouncil.gov.uk/whats-on-events/heritage-open-days/ 
After the success of the 2022 event, the FREE Crewe Heritage Fair will return to Crewe 
Heritage Centre on Saturday 9 September to showcase groups and organisations interested 
in Crewe's past together under one roof. Come along for a fun-packed day for all the family 
and discover how the people of Crewe used their creativity to develop and innovate 
industrial engineering. 

Visitors will be able to see: 
• The London & North Western Railway Society (L&NWR) highlighting how the LNWR 
revolutionised locomotive design.
• The Bentley Heritage Collection showcasing the creativity of luxury supercar design 
through the decades.
• The Crewe Railway Cottages Residents’ Association exploring the innovative design 
of the cottages - which included gas lighting seventeen years before the Houses of 
Parliament!
Other confirmed groups include the Crewe & District Military Vehicles Group, Crewe 
Historical Society, the Family History Society Crewe Branch, Crewe Local Studies Library, the 
Crewe Heritage Centre and the Co-op.
The L&NWR Society will also have a range of mini steam locomotives running during the 
day.
Councillor Jamie Messent, Chair of the Operations and Improvements Committee, 
commented: 
“Crewe Town Council has worked hard to bring this event back to Crewe for the second time. 
The Heritage Open Days festival is a fantastic initiative, which brings together the community 
in a celebration of Crewe’s heritage. There is a huge variety of activities on offer this year and 
I am pleased to see that the Heritage Fair continues to grow with more organisations 
attending year on year.”
Crewe’s heritage is very much a priority for Crewe Town Council, with a number of exciting 
developments in progress. For more information, contact the Heritage Manager at 
heritage@crewetowncouncil.gov.uk. 
Crewe Town Council has also produced a range of free Heritage Resources full of facts, 
images, maps and activities that can be downloaded here:
www.crewetowncouncil.gov.uk/council-services-2/crewe-heritage/heritage-resources