Having seen a bit of the build up to the re-opening of the museum on ITV news a week or so ago I decided to take a trip over to Lambeth today.
My Nan lived almost opposite the museum (just of Lambeth walk) and was born on Fitzalun St in 1920. She is still with us at 94 and every meeting is a history lesson! She vividly remembers in WW2 the ‘reconnaissance aircraft with black crosses’ circling overhead before incendiaries were dropped before a raid and she was herself was ‘blown up’ by a V2 rocket killing her mother, father and husband, she spent the next three years in St Thomas’s Hospital and has the shrapnel inside her to prove it!
Sorry back to the thread. I arrived at the museum at midday and was given a WW1 gallery ticket free of charge for 2:30, the layout is much different, I like the old atrium better (FW190 and Mustang set up), but the information is much more informative I think and presented nicely. The WW1 galleries have had such a lot of work put into them, I spent over 2 hours and a half in there. There is so much reading material and together the with posters, photography, film, exhibits and soundtrack made it a special experience. Thinking back on yesterdays visit I dont think ‘the trenches’ walk through is still there which is a shame I thought that was great.
Make the trip, its well worth it.
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