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New events confirmed and booking in person starts for Heritage Open Days

Thursday, 21st August 2008

There are still some tickets left for the popular pre-bookable events for this year's Heritage Open Days and booking in person for these events starts on Tuesday, 26^th August at Norwich Tourist Information Centre at the Assembly House.

There are also around 140 things to do and see that don't require any booking - you can simply turn up at the events which are running on 11 to 14 September.

Copies of the free brochure packed full of information about all the free heritage and cultural events can be downloaded from http://www.heritagecity.org/, or picked up from many city centre venues including the Guildhall on Gaol Hill, the Tourist Information Centre (TIC) at the Assembly House and all Norfolk libraries.

New events which have just been confirmed (and are not in the brochure) include:

Free, drop-in events:

• A church service with an Elizabethan theme at St Andrew's Church on St Andrew's Street, Sunday, 14^th September at 11am
• Elizabethan music performances at St Andrew's Church on St Andrew's Street, Saturday, 13^th September. Performance times 12pm and 3pm
• St Peter's Church, North Barningham will be open with an exhibition on the history of the church, Saturday 13^th and Sunday 14^th September, 10am-4pm
• A talk on the Pilgrim Fathers by Ted Doe, at the Old Meeting House on Colegate, Saturday, 13^th September at 4.30pm
• St Edmund Church, Fishergate is open Saturday, 13^th September, 10am to 4pm
• St Saviour Church on Magdalen Street is open Saturday, 13^th September, 10am to 4pm

Free, pre-bookable events

• Free film screening of Norfolk Past - The County Our Parents Knew, made using rare film from the East Anglian Film Archive, the film covers 50 years of change in the landscape and lifestyles of Norfolk. At Screen 3 at Cinema City on St Andrew's Street, Saturday, 13^th September at 4.15pm. Book directly via Cinema City: call 0871 704 205, book online at http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/ or visit their box office
• A guided walk: Lost churches of the King Street area. By Ted Doe. Meet at St Julian's Church, St Julian's Alley, King Street on Saturday 13^th September at 11am

Norwich Heritage Open Days (HODs) celebrates all of the city's fantastic heritage by offering free access to events and interesting properties that are usually closed to the public or normally charge for admission. It contains a packed programme of open buildings, guided tours, exhibitions, talks, family activities, window displays, music recitals and dance performances, co-ordinated by Norwich Heritage Economic and Regeneration Trust (HEART).

See http://www.heritagecity.org/ for more details about all the events and to download the brochure. The TIC is open Monday to Saturday, 9:30am to 6pm and Sunday 10:30 to 4.30pm.

This year's HODS is supported by ITV Local which hosting a section dedicated to HODs which will give you the chance to explore more of what historic Norwich has to offer. Find out more at www.itvlocal.com/anglia/history, where you can:

• Take virtual tours of some of the city's most popular buildings including the Great Hospital, Earlham Hall, Gothic House and the Guildhall
• See the view live from the top of the Roman Catholic Cathedral Tower
• Learn quirky historic facts about Norwich and write in with your own memories
• Watch films on some of Norwich's famous faces and places and much more.

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Notes to editors

For more information please contact Christina Lundberg, Communications Manager at Norwich HEART on 01603 599570 or email christinalundberg@heritagecity.org

About Norwich HEART

Norwich Heritage Economic and Regeneration Trust (HEART) is a private, charitable trust set up to act as an umbrella organisation for all of the heritage on offer in Norwich and to be a best practice exemplar internationally for heritage as a social and economic regeneration vehicle.