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Sywell Aviation Museum – Opening Pics!

Well despite freezing temperatures and snowstorms – we’re now open!

A few pics from the day:

The range shelter now fully restored and in position

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M16 Half track and jeep

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The museum from the concrete bog roll!

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Re-enactors

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Pitsford Home Guard Living History Unit drilling

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WE ARE NOW OPEN!

Come and visit us – 10.30 to 16.30 Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holidays until the end of September!

Cheers

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By: TEXANTOMCAT - 26th March 2008 at 09:27

Thanks for your kind comments Martin – its better when its sunny and warm…honest! Hope to see you at the airshow on the 24th August….

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By: kartman - 25th March 2008 at 19:57

My wife and i visited the museum for the first time on Monday, very impressive museum although my wife had to be dragged away from the heater at the workshop end :¬) .Has anyone here been to the museum at Thurleigh, as i am intending to visit that in the next few weeks……..Martin

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By: TEXANTOMCAT - 25th March 2008 at 12:34

We were pretty busy all day actually!

But yes as Roger says – it is EARLY this year – easter last year was bathed in sunshine….

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By: RPSmith - 25th March 2008 at 12:06

Yes, a poor weekend weatherwise will have hit everyone involved in ‘visitor attractions’. But remember Easter came VERY early this year.

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By: Pete Truman - 25th March 2008 at 11:50

What a motley crew, perhaps you should dress accordingly and pay a visit to a certain persons yard in the middle of the night with a crane, I’d love to see the headlines in the local paper.
Bearing in mind the terrible weather, what was the visitor attendance like, it was appalling here and Norfolk was virtually a no go area, actually, for all you folk involved in museum activities like this, how did you fair, I dared to drive up the road to B&Q yesterday morning and it was like a morgue, not what you would expect at all, I gather that the attractions at Gt Yarmouth had to be shut down and they’ve lost hundreds of thousands of pounds.
It must be the worst Easter on record, apart from anything else, one of our horses went sick, and we thought we might have to spend the whole weekend sleeping in the barn, so we couldn’t do anything anyway.
When I was a lad, we used to catch the excursion train to Cleethorpes or Mablethorpe on an Easter weekend, build sandcastles on the beach and go for donkey rides, or better still, have a blast across the beach on that wierd train thing, red and blue it was, based at Mablethorpe, anyone remember that.
Sorry, got carried away.

Any thoughts on my PM TT.

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