13/04/2024
The Kent Battle of Britain Museum Trust (www.kbobm.org) at Hawkinge has been back open for just over a week and the great news is that we are 125% up on visitors from the same period last year! Please also bear in mind that 2023 was our busiest year in the 59 years since the Museum was founded back in 1965.
As a voluntary run organisation every penny we can raise helps us to maintain, grow and expand the collection. We should be acquiring additional land within a couple of years, so the more visitors we can attract, not only do we educate them about ‘The Few’ and the summer of 1940, but helps up build a cash reserve so when the land is donated to the Charitable Trust, we will have finances in place to erect additional buildings and hangars.
So please come and visit the largest and most comprehensive collection of Battle of Britain exhibits on display anywhere in the world.
The Museum, Museum Shop, and our lovely No. 25 Squadron Mess and Tea Rooms are open Tuesdays to Sundays through until 10th November 2024. Closed on Mondays except on Bank Holidays. In April we are open 10am to 4pm, with last entry one hour before closing.
For everything you need to know about the Museum please have a look at and browse through our excellent and informative website: www.kbobm.org
Please keep ‘liking’, ‘sharing’, and ‘commenting’ which helps us spread the work of the volunteers and promotes the Museum to all your family and friends. It is truly appreciated by us all.
Many Thanks as always…
06/02/2023
The River Roding – the Essex River
A talk from Janet Seward
11/01/2023
https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/1923-krisenjahr-weimarer-republik-100.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-de-DE
Vor 100 Jahren - 1923 – Anfang eines Krisenjahres
Vor 100 Jahren begann ein Krisenjahr der Weimarer Republik: Vom langfristig wirkenden Trauma ist die Rede, wenn Stichworte wie Inflation und Spaltung der Gesellschaft fallen. Große Themen, die 1923 auch und gerade für heute interessant machen.
09/01/2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGFbqTyYDzg
Potsdam Schloßpark Marquardt, Lange Kerls vom Preußischen Königsbataillon
bei einem Wochenendausflug am 2.09.2012 zum Schloß Marquardt trafen wir auch auf die "langen Kerls" vom Preußischen Königsbataillon bzw. -regiment, die an di...
09/01/2023
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Gewehrexerzieren
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08/01/2023
CHINGFORD THEN & NOW
Station Road at the junction of ‘The Green’, Chingford, c1920. A focal point for Chingford residents for hundreds of years, ‘The Green’ was a place for people from neighbouring hamlets to meet, trade & deal with any affairs of the day. Now a conservation area.
05/12/2022
CHINGFORD THEN & NOW
Old Church Road in 1955 when Chingford was still in the historic county of Essex. The parish was granted urban district status in 1894, and municipal borough status in 1938. In 1965 the borough of Waltham Forest was created and Chingford became part of the ceremonial county of Greater London.
04/12/2022
CHINGFORD THEN & NOW
Chingford Mount looking south c1905. From tram to trolleybus, 50 years separate these photos, and transport is still key to bringing shoppers to the high streets of Chingford.