The Jones’s Van has arrived home! A large crowd cheered and sang the theme song as the van,led by our own Captain Mainwaring and Pike and followed by the Home Guard,made it way along Cage Lane.A great day was held in Thetford with all three museums open,a craft fair and an Easter egg hunt.We were pleased to welcome nearly 500 people to the museum.We will publish a full report very soon.
The Dad’s Army and Charles Burrell Museum open again from tomorrow (March 30th) at 10am.Come along and join in the fun and see the famous Jones’s Van.It will be at the Charles Burrell Museum until 1pm when it will make it’s way to Dad’s Army Museum where it will stay until we close at 4pm.
Over the last two weekends the volunteers from the Charles Burrell and Dad`s Army Museum has been busy cleaning ready for next Saturday March 30th.Both museums open from 10am.
It is just three weeks now until the museum opens again.Today (Saturday March 9th) was a training day.New and old volunteers gathered for a training session with Rosie from the Sainsbury Centre in Norwich.Next Saturday is cleaning day.Pictured here are volunteers Mick Whitman (right) and Steve Clark.
The museum is open again on March 30th from 10am until 4pm.The Jones’s Van will leave it’s new home at the Charles Burrell Museum at 1pm and travel to the Dad’s Army Museum.We hope that you all can join us.
Our Captain Mainwaring (aka Mick Whitman) was on the road last Thursday (Feb 28th).He gave a talk at Watton to the University of the Third Age.
Don’t forget the museum reopens on Saturday March 30th at 10am.
The event was a great success and we spoke to lots of potential new volunteers.We still need more volunteers.If you want to know more please email us your contact details at dadsarmythetford@googlemail.com or telephone 01842 751975 or 07802 701911.
The Dad’s Army Museum and the Charles Burrell museum are launching a volunteers drive.The following article appeared in the February issue of About Thetford.
Both museums receive visitors from all corners of the
globe but there is no question that as a result of the
publicity that the Van has already attracted 2013 is
poised to be our busiest year yet and in order to cope
with the demand we need to attract more volunteers.
The van will be housed at Charles Burrell Museum and
they will be looking to change their opening hours to
every Saturday to ensure as many people as possible
have access to the new exhibit - so there are
opportunities at both museums.
Do you have to be an expert on Dad's Army or
Charles Burrell? No.......however we guarantee you will
become a fan and a valued part of a friendly team.
You can help the museums as a Volunteer by
• Working in the Museum talking to visitors and
making them welcome.
• Helping in Marigold's Tea Rooms or behind the
scenes baking cakes at home.
• Training as a Tour Guide or Tour Assistant for our
public tours guiding visitors around the Thetford
locations.
• Being 'front line' as part of the events team
promoting aid marketing the museum at outside
events.
• Being part of me Jones' Van team helping
maintain the vehicle or talking to visitors about it.
• Manning the desks as part of the valuable
`backroom' staff helping with administration and
organisation whether it be helping satisfy orders
from our on me shops or dealing with enquiries or
event planning or planning new displays
working on new merchandise or............
There are many opportunities to become a Dad's
Army and Charles Burrell Volunteer and you can give as much
or as much time as you want to - we have some
volunteers that work every week through the season, we
have others that work for 2 hours in the year so there
really is something for everyone and whatever you can
commit to, you will be helping both museums to be a
Thetford success.
We all know that volunteers played a crucial part in the
success of the Olympics last year - now the is your
chance to get involved much closer to home, come
join our happy team!
Please get in touch or come and speak to some to some
existing volunteers at a special drop m event at
Thetford Guildhall on Saturday 16th February 10-12pm.
Every year the museum published the Walmington Echo,the story of the previous year and other interesting items about Dad’s Army and the museum.The Walmington Echo is sent to all members of The Friends and is on sale in The Swallow Bank.Work had already started on the latest issue and the editorial team is looking for items to include.If you have a story to tell about Dad’s Army,the museum or one of our events please get in touch,photographs welcome.
Tickets are now on sale on the website for the 2013 season of walking tours.Book now to avoid disappointment !
The date for the May walking tour has been set as May 12th.Tickets for all the tour will be on sale from the web site later this month.Tour vouchers are on sale now and can be used for any of the 2013 walking tours .http://www.dadsarmythetford.org.uk/booktour.htm
There are some great video clips of the Jones’s Van on our Facebook group,why not join and take a look !
A very large thank you to Chris Evans for the publicity he gave us on Monday - it has meant a tremendous reaction and we are very grateful! We have packed up and sent out 30 orders today and there is another 21 on their way tomorrow - phew! Exhausting but very happy with the response - thanks everyone & new website is getting there - new holding page should be up by tomorrow.
The dates for the 2013 walking tours have just been announced,take a look and book a tour or but someone a voucher for Christmas http://www.dadsarmythetford.org.uk/booktour.htm
The museum is pleased to announce that our bidding team has been successful and the van will be coming home to Thetford.Now we need some fundraising to pay our funders.Full statement to follow.
The museum has now closed for it’s winter break.We will reopen at Easter 2013.The museum shop will remain open.
The museum will remain open until 3pm on Saturday December 1st then we will close for our winter break and reopen on Easter Saturday 2013.So hurry along for tea & cake at Marigolds.If you are in the area the weekend of November 30th / December 1st come along to Thetford.On Friday evening the Christmas lights will be switched on and there will be a market and craft fair and the Guildhall.The museum will have a stall there.On Saturday December 1st our friends `The Thetford Players` will be having a Christmas Fair and again we will have a stall there as well.
Here is the first look at our new design t-shirts.They will be on sale in the museum shop this Saturday.Details of how you can obtain them online will be on the website soon and in our email newsletter this weekend.
Posts
All Comments
