Doors Open Days
Start Date: 10/09/2011
End Date: 11/09/2011
Doors Open Days give you free access to hundreds of fascinating buildings across Scotland. Every weekend in September you can explore places that are normally closed to the public. Some open up once a year, some just once in a lifetime... Inverclyde's Doors Open Days are Saturday and Sunday 10/11 September.
Doors Open Days is Scotland’s largest free annual architectural event. It is coordinated nationally by the Scottish Civic Trust and is part of European Heritage Days along side Scottish Archaeology Month, coordinated by Archaeology Scotland (formerly known as the Council for Scottish Archaeology). Both are supported by Historic Scotland.
For the full programme of all DOD events go to the Doors Open Days website at
www.doorsopendays.org.uk or you can download the Inverclyde programme from
http://www.inverclyde.gov.uk/events pop in to any Inverclyde library or the Business Store from the middle of August to pick up your printed copy.
Venues taking part this year include:-
1. Greenock Arts Guild (Sunday only 10am-4pm)
2. Be a Tourist in your own Town - Bookable bus tour with guide (Saturday only) at 11am and 2pm
3. Cemetery walks (Sat and Sun – Bookable tours start at 11am and 2pm)
4. Rural Inverclyde Tour - Bus tour with guide (Sunday only.Booking essential)
5. Sir Gabriel Woods Mariners Home (Saturday only 10am-12noon and 2pm-4pm)
6. Greenock Cut Walk (Walk the Cut on Sunday only from 2pm-4pm)
7. Greenock Sheriff Court (Saturday only 9am-3pm)
8. St John the Evangelist Church (Sat 10am-12noon & 2pm-4pm and Sun 2pm-4pm only)
9. Notre Dame High School (Sunday only 9.15am – 3.30pm)
10. Clydeview Academy (Sunday only 9.15am – 3.30pm)
11. The Provosts Room, Port Glasgow Town Hall (Saturday only 10am-4pm)
12. Newark Castle (Sat & Sun 9:30am-5pm)
13. Wemyss Bay station (Sat & Sun 10am-4pm)
14. Lyle Community Kirk (formerly Ardgowan Parish Church) Sat 10am-5pm and Sun 2pm-5pm
15. Lyle Community Kirk (formerly Old West Kirk) Sat 10am-5pm and Sun 12noon – 4pm
16. Lyle Community Kirk (formerly Finnart St Pauls) Sat 10am-5pm and Sun 12noon-4pm
17. Waterfront Leisure Complex (Sat 9am-5pm and Sun 9am-5pm Bookable tours at 1:30 and 2:30pm)
18. St Johns Gourock (Saturday only 10am-1pm)
19. Royal Gourock Yacht Club (Sat & Sun 12 noon-4pm)
20. Wellpark Mid Kirk (Sat 10am – 2pm only)
21. Lodge Greenock St John’s No. 175 (Saturday only 10am-4pm)
22. Lodge Cumberland Kilwinning No. 217 Port Glasgow (Saturday only 10am-4pm)
23. The Custom House (Sat & Sun 11am-3pm)
24. Parklea Branching Out (Saturday only 10am-3:30pm)
25. St Mary’s Catholic Church (Sat 11am-4pm and Sun 1pm-4pm)
26. St John the Baptist Church (Sat 11am-5pm and Sun 12 noon-5pm)
27. Kilmacolm Community Centre (Saturday only 9am- 12noon)
28. The McLean Museum and Art Gallery (Saturday only 10:00am- 5:00pm)
29. The Royal Observer Monitoring post museum at Skelmorlie (Sunday only 12 noon – 5pm)
30. Fort Matilda Station building (Saturday only 09:00–17:00)
31. Nether Knockbuckle House (Sat and Sun 2pm-5pm)
32. Quarriers (Saturday only. Guided tours at 11am, 1pm and 3pm)