The museum was pleased to welcome members of the Dad’s Army Appreciation Society to the museum on Saturday May 18th.We were also joined by some members of the cast including Bill Pertwee,Frank Williams,Jeffrey Holland and John Clegg.Other special guests included the mayor of Thetford Stuart Wright, Ronnie Grainge ,Judy Buxton and Trevor & Mavis Jenkins.
The chairman of the Friends of Dad’s Army Museum Thetford, Stuart Wright has become the mayor of Thetford for 2013/2014.Stuart is pictured here with his wife Denise and children Jacob & Elizabeth.
You can buy your very own miniature version of our Jones’s Van for just £9.95 plus £4 uk post & packing.
Click on the image to buy.
Jones’s Van will be at the Muckleburgh Collection from May 27th until June 2nd.
Click on the image for more details.
Weybourne Station, Saturday/Sunday May 25/26
The famous “Royal Train” episode of the evergreen Dads’ Army was filmed at Weybourne station on what was then the fledgling North Norfolk Railway in 1973. Forty years on, with the Poppy Line now one of Britain’s top steam railways and the station beautifully restored, the episode will be commemorated in “Dads’ Army Live!”.
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The event will run on the Saturday and Sunday of the late May Bank Holiday. The station will be under the control of the Walmington-on-Sea platoon, with volunteers playing the parts of Captain Mainwaring and his colleagues. Corporal Jones’s butcher’s van will be on hand to add to the authentic atmosphere. And on the Sunday afternoon, our intrepid volunteers will re-enact the soaking the platoon got at the end of the episode, when the royal train sped through the water troughs and left them all drenched.
For advance bookings and information visit www.nnrailway.co.uk
or call 01263 820 800.
The event programme is currently being finalised and full details will be supplied as soon as they are available.
For more information:
Colin Borg on 07774 710 354, 020 8789 0478 and ladybirdcottage@btinternet.com
Trevor Eady on 01263 820 800 and teady@nnrailway.co.uk
The museum was pleased to welcome the Stamford Shakespeare Company to the museum this Saturday (April 20th) to take some publicity photographs. In July and August the company are putting on a Dad’s Army stage play the show will feature the lost episodes.The company caused quite a stir in town and a traffic jam outside the Charles Burrell Museum !
For more information on the show go along to www.stamfordshakespeare.co.uk
The museum was very pleased today (April 14th) to welcome member of the Rolls Royce Enthusiasts Club.After parking their wonderful cars in the market place they visited both the Dad’s Army and Charles Burrell Museums.They went on a Thetford locations tour and back at the museum they enjoyed soup and a roll for lunch.The museum is always willing to host special visitors please contact us for more information.
The season has only just started and on Saturday (13th April) we welcomed the 1000th visitor to the museum this year.Today Sunday (14th April) we are welcoming a Rolls Royce Club to the museum.We hope that there will be over 15 of these great machines on show in the Guildhall car park.Next Sunday (April 21st) will be holding the first public walking tour of the season.
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