The museum was pleased to welcome some special visitors on Monday April 23rd.Members of Ixworth WI came over to have a look at the museum and statue.While they were here they had cup of tea in the Marigold Tea Room.The museum is pleased to welcome visitors outside our normal opening times by prior arrangement,please contact us for more information at dadsarmythetford@googlemail.com or 01842 751975 .
Theatre Royal Bury St. Edmunds
‘Wakeman, Pike & Lavender’
Rick Wakeman hosts an evening of chat with Ian Lavender reminiscing about their careers and David Crofts most enduring creation, Dad’s Army.
Prices for tickets range from £8.50 to £24.50 this will be followed by a post show reception, (tickets available at £15) this will give an opportunity to share in a more informal and intimate time, with the chance to meet Rick Wakeman and Ian Lavender personally.
Today (April 15th) we held the first public walking tour.18 visitors braved the rain showers to be shown the locations used in the filming of the series.The next public tour is on May 20th details are here.We can organise private tours and visits to the museum.
The museum is very grateful to local historian and painter decorator David Osborn who has completed this lovely new sign over the entrance to the tea room.Now you will have no excuse not to come along for a cup of tea and a slice of cake.
The museum opened for the new season at 10am on Saturday April 7th.We had to wait 40 minutes for the 21st visitor that day and the 20000th since we opened on December 7th 2007.The 20000th visitor was Lindsay Smith from Gressingthorpe in Essex.Lindsay was greeted at the museum door by our own Captain Mainwaring,Mick Whitman.The Captain presented Lindsay with basket of Dad’s Army Museum goodies and a free membership of ‘The Friends’.We had 170 visitors on this day and will be open 10am until 3pm every Saturday until early December plus Tuesdays in School Holidays.
Adam Mullany first visited the Dad's Army Museum when his family brought him for a birthday treat on October 25th 2008 and boy what a change they all discovered when coming back to the museum when we re-opened for the new season. When they visited before we only had the one room, now there are 5 rooms and as one of those was our Marigold Tea room, it would have been rude not to have had a scone and jam! Adam said of his visit that he had great fun and it was 'delice'. Look forward to seeing you again soon Adam.
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