Hope you didn't forget to tune into Saturday Kitchen last Saturday (Jan 28th) on BBC1.The wine recommendation bit was filmed on location in Thetford by Cactus Television. It featured the statue of Captain Mainwaring and a shot of the museum sign.If you did miss it you might find in on the iPlayer.
Andy, Suzie, Claire, 'The Captain' and Mike.
Calling all our re-enactor/vintage/theatre friends – We have been approached by the Guildhall School of Music and Drama based in Moorgate, London. They are producing a production of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream which is going to be performed at the Barbican Centre’s Main Theatre which is a great opportunity for those involved and indeed Guildhall. The design for the production is based around the 1940’s with some of the action set in a 1940’s hospital. For this production we are in need of some props that you might be able to help us with, these are as follows :
16 X Identical Chairs – Church/Village Hall/ Chapel Chairs
4 x Sunglasses – 2 x Male, 2 X Female
Surgical Instruments
Surgical Trolley
Surgical Folding Screen
Surgical Drip
Hypodermic Needles – Possibly Glass or Metal, large.
Hospital Washbasin – With wheels.
Air Raid Patrol Lamp
Military Milk Float – They need an electric vehicle that is able to take singers on the back of the float/truck and be driven onstage. Ideally this should resemble a 1940’s Bedford Flatbed truck but due to stage weight restrictions it has to be under 3.5tonnes hence the idea of a Military looking Milk Float.
The dates they would need to borrow the items from would be : Friday 10th February to Wednesday 7th March.
If you can help, please get in touch.Call our museum manager,Corinne Fulford,on 07802 701911.
You can email us at dadsarmythetford@googlemail.com or you can complete the contact form at http://www.dadsarmythetford.org.uk/contact.htm
The museum is now starting it’s 5th year and it is quite amazing just what we have got up to.This page will show you all our recent activity.If you go to our archive new page you can see what we have been up to since 2007.
Although the Museum is now closed for the Winter break, all our merchandise is available on line. Our web shop is currently showing a very small part of our range so if you have seen something when you visited please contact us, we will be happy to help you.
Details of the 2012 walking tours of the Thetford locations have just been published on the book a tour page.
Why not buy a walking tour gift voucher as a Christmas present,details on this page also.
The museum was once again able to join our friends from the Charles Burrell Museum and attend the 2011 fireworks event on November 6th.Our friends from the Charles Burrell Museum came along with their wonderful steam engine,The Queen Mary.Our photographs show our Captain Mainwaring (Mick Whitman) and Pike (Saxon) meeting some unusual friends.Not to be out down our museum manager (Corinne) showed off some new designer head gear.
The museum will close for it’s winter break on Saturday December 3rd at 2pm.We will reopen in April 2012.
If you are planning to come to our last opening you could combine your visit to the museum to a visit to the Xmas Fair and Fun Day being held by the Thetford Players drama group.The event will take place in the Carnegie Rooms,next door to the museum from 10am until 3pm.
We are pleased to announce a book signing of 'The Real Dad’s Army,the war diaries of Lt.Col. Rodney Foster ' at the museum on Saturday November 5th from 10am until 2pm.
Come along and meet Shaun Sewell and Ronnie Scott for a chat and the chance to purchase a signed copy of the book.
The museum team has placed a book of condolence in the museum for anyone who would like to express their thoughts about David Croft OBE.If you cannot get to the museum please send your comments to us and we will put them in the book for you.Please email us or use the comments form on the contact link.
Once again the museum attended to wonderful Village at War event at Gressenhall over the August Bank Holiday.A great time was had by all and we met many old friends and made lots of new ones.The weekend finished with a fly past by the Battle of Britain flight.
The museum was pleased to open on Tuesday August 30th as part of the 2011 Thetford Festival.During the day we took visitors to the museum on mini location tours,showing them some of the Thetford town centre locations used during filming.We were pleased to welcome some special visitors in uniform and some vehicles.Over the day we had just over 200 visitors.
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