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1940s exhibition...
Discover life along a 1940s street.

 

Located in the Spinks Gallery the 1940s.

 

• Experience shows reconstructions of life during the 1940s.

• Experience the sight and sounds of an air raid shelter.

• Step inside an Anderson Shelter

• Peek into a war time kitchen and back yard.

• Browse in a 1940s general store and post office.

• Peer into a toy shop filled with toys from the period.

 

 

Takes approximately 20 mins