Events: detail
Bank Holiday Fun/WW2 and You/ Giants of Steam
- Hosted by:
- Kew Bridge Steam Museum
- Speaker:
- None listed
- Starts:
- August 23, 2008 at 11:00 am
- Ends:
- August 25, 2008 at 05:00 pm
- Location:
- Kew Bridge Steam Museum, , Green Dragon Lane, Brentford, Middlesex, TW8 0EN United Kingdom
- Maps:
Description
Get ready to step back in time at Kew Bridge Steam Museum, with a 1940s themed weekend, where activities include a variety of wartime vehicles and demonstrations, tips on ‘make do and mend’, plus a special wartime menu in the café. The pumping station probably worked at its hardest during the Blitz in the Second World War with the Cornish engines and diesels working to cope with burst water mains plus the demand from the fire fighting service. Visitors will be issued with a replica of a special pass that was needed in order to get into the pumping station during the war, based on one from the museums collection and the museum entrance will be sandbagged. The 90inch, Boulton & Watt and Maudslay beam engines will run and the focus of this weekend will be on the working life of the Victorian pumping station with specialised talks, behind the scenes tours of the original workshops, as well as standpipe tower tours.
- Registration required:
- No
- Free:
- No
Additional information
How to find us: In Green Dragon Lane, Brentford, Middlesex about 200 yards from the north side of Kew Bridge under the tall Victorian Tower. Nearest motorway is M4 (coming into London, turn off at Junction 2 signposted to Kew Gardens and North/South Circular roads, down to Chiswick roundabout, then pick up signs for Kew, Brentford and Hounslow. Keep right at the traffic lights before Kew Bridge and then turn first right into Green Dragon Lane). The Museum car park has space for 40 cars.
Public Transport:
• Buses: 65, 237, 267, 391.
• Main Line Train: Kew Bridge (South West Trains from Waterloo via Clapham Junction). Gunnersbury (North London Line) then 237 or 267 bus.
• London Underground: Gunnersbury (District Line) then 237 or 267 bus. South Ealing (Piccadilly Line) then 65 bus
Admission:
• Cornish Experience Weekends and some special events weekends Adults £8.00 Concessions: £7.00
• Other Steaming Weekends Adults £7.00, Concessions £6.00
• Weekdays (engines not in steam) Adults £5.00 Concessions £4.00
• Children 15 and under FREE - children aged 15 and under are admitted to the museum for FREE, but must be accompanied by a paying adult. Proof of age may be required. Please note different rates may apply at some special events and activities.
Further information: The museum is open from 11.00am to 5.00pm Tuesday to Sunday. Closed Mondays except Bank Holidays.
For more information
- Contact person:
- Kew Bridge Steam Museum
- Phone:
- 020 8568 4757
- Email:
- info [ at ] kbsm.org
- Website:
- Bank Holiday Fun/WW2 and You/ Giants of Steam
