Free entry to Duxford Imperial War Museum 9 Nov

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Free local events, organised by BBC Learning, will be held across the UK on the weekend of the 8th and 9th November to mark the 90th anniversary of the end of World War One

England:
East

• Imperial War Museum Duxford
  Cambridgeshire, CB22 4QR
  Sunday 9 November, 10:00 - 16:00

East Yorkshire & Lincolnshire

• BBC Hull Open Centre
  Queen's Court
  Queen's Gardens
  Hull, HU1 3RH
  Monday 3 - Tuesday 11 November, 10:00 - 16:00. Family event Saturday 8 November, 10:00 - 16:00
• Museum of Lincolnshire Life
  Old Barracks, Burton Rd
  Lincoln, LN1 3LY
  Tuesday 11 November, 10:00 - 14:00

East Midlands

• Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery
  Lenton Road,
  Nottingham, NG1 6EL
  Saturday 8 November, 11:00 - 15:00

London

• IWM London
  Lambeth Road
  London SE1 6HZ
  Saturday 8 November, 10:00 - 17:00

NE & Cumbria

• Joint venues: Durham Light Infantry Museum
  Durham, DH1 5TU
  County Hall
  Durham, DH1 5UL
  Saturday 8 November, 10:00 - 15:00

North West

• Imperial War Museum North
  The Quays, Trafford Wharf Road
  Manchester, M17 1TZ
  Saturday 8 November 11:00 - 16:00
• Merseyside Maritime Museum
  Albert Dock,
  Liverpool, L3 4AQ
  Saturday 8 November, 10:00 - 16:00
• BBC Radio Lancashire
  20-26 Darwen Street
  Blackburn, Lancashire
  Monday 3 - Friday 14 November, 10:00-15:00 daily

South

• The Tank Museum
  Bovington, Wool
  Dorset, BH20 6JG
  Saturday 8 November, 10:30 - 16:00

South East

• Newhaven Fort
  Fort Road
  East Sussex, BN9 9DS
  Saturday 8 November, 11:00 - 16:00

South West

• Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry Museum
  The Keep
  Bodmin, PL31 1EG
  Saturday 8 November, 10:00 - 16:00
• Exeter Central Library
  Castle Street
  Exeter, EX4 3PQ
  Saturday 8 November, 10:00 - 15:30

West

• STEAM: Museum of the Great Western Railway
  Kemble Drive
  Swindon, SN2 2TA
  Saturday 8 November, 10:00 - 17:00

West Midlands

• National Memorial Arboretum
  Croxall Road,
  Alrewas
  Staffordshire, DE13 7AR
  Saturday 8 November, 10:00 - 16:00

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Northern Ireland:

• Somme Heritage Centre
  233 Bangor Road
  Newtownards, BT23 7PH
  Saturday 8 November, 10:00 - 16:00

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Scotland:

East Dunbartonshire

• Auchinairn Community Centre
  173 Auchinairn Road
  
  Brookwood library
  Drymen Road, Bearsden
  
  Lennoxtown Initiative
  Railway Court, Station Road
  
  All events: meet Tuesday 11 November from 10:00

West Lothian

• Carmondean Library
  Carmondean Centre, Deans
  Livingston, EH54 8PT
  Saturday 8 November, 10:00 - 13:00

Inverclyde

• Central Library
  Clyde Square
  Greenock, PA15 INA
  Saturday 8 November, 11:00 - 12:30

Aberdeenshire

• Ellon Library
  Station Road
  Ellon, AB41 9AE
  Saturday 8 November, 10:00 - 16:00
• Meldrum library
  Colpy Road
  Oldmeldrum, AB51 0NT
  Saturday 8 November, 10:00 - 13:00
• Turriff library
  Grange Villa
  The Square
  Turriff, AB53 4AE
  Saturday 8 November, 10:00 - 16:00

Edinburgh

• Leith Library Community Room
  28-30 Ferry Road
  Edinburgh, EH6 4AE
  8 November, 10:30 - 12:30

Midlothian

• Penicuik Library
  Carlops Road
  Penicuik, EH26 9EP
  Saturday 8 November, 09:30 - 12:30

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Wales:

• Visit Caerphilly
  The Twyn
  Caerphilly, CF83 1JL
  Friday 7 November, 12:00 - 16:30 and
  Saturday 8 November 10.00 - 14.00

http://www.bbc.co.uk/remembrance/season/events.shtml

finnieston

Coming from Glasgow,

We'd be outrgaed if any cheap fool tried to ask for money to let us visit a museum that had our stuff in it.

Fair enough - you visit a tram museum in Porto - it's their thing, so they'll charge a couple of euro entrance.

But, if I visit the Transport Museum in Glasgow it's free. it has to be - I've
already paid for the exhibits.

As a GB tax payer I've already bought these Duxford fighters & bombers. Can't say about any un-necessary museum buildings & their architects ~ they're probably be a stylised affectation that the weak fools that run the museum have felt obliged to employ. Clearly there were available suitable hangars on site from the wartinme - just maybe not a fully whole visitor experience? Entrance should be free to all UK taxpayers and any of our Commonwealth & European brothers that care to call at EGSU.
BR,
NDM

ozvaldinho

finnieston wrote: »

As a GB tax payer I've already bought these Duxford fighters & bombers. Can't say about any un-necessary museum buildings & their architects ~ they're probably be a stylised affectation that the weak fools that run the museum have felt obliged to employ. Clearly there were available suitable hangars on site from the wartinme - just maybe not a fully whole visitor experience? Entrance should be free to all UK taxpayers and any of our Commonwealth & European brothers that care to call at EGSU.
BR,
NDM

sealady

Thanks for this! Hopefully it will be worth the 3 hour journey for it!

sarerb18

finnieston wrote: »

Coming from Glasgow,

We'd be outrgaed if any cheap fool tried to ask for money to let us visit a museum that had our stuff in it.

Fair enough - you visit a tram museum in Porto - it's their thing, so they'll charge a couple of euro entrance.

But, if I visit the Transport Museum in Glasgow it's free. it has to be - I've
already paid for the exhibits.

As a GB tax payer I've already bought these Duxford fighters & bombers. Can't say about any un-necessary museum buildings & their architects ~ they're probably be a stylised affectation that the weak fools that run the museum have felt obliged to employ. Clearly there were available suitable hangars on site from the wartinme - just maybe not a fully whole visitor experience? Entrance should be free to all UK taxpayers and any of our Commonwealth & European brothers that care to call at EGSU.
BR,
NDM

How do you think the upkeep is paid for. I for one would rather have the stuff looked after by paying to go in than see it rot. This releases tax money to be spent on more important things like health and schools (one would hope)

ozvaldinho

sealady wrote: »

Thanks for this! Hopefully it will be worth the 3 hour journey for it!

Three hours' journey? It's good, but not sure if it's THAT good!