Victorian Village & Britain in the Blitz Re-open for 2015
Published: 27th January 2015Written By : Nikki Smith
Published: 27th January 2015
Flambards indoor exhibitions are re-opening this week on Tuesday 27th January 2015.
The award winning life-size Victorian Village and Britain in the Blitz open their doors on Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays prior to the Flambards Theme Park re-opening for Easter Holidays on the 28th March 2015.
Manager, Richard Smith says "The winter trade has been building each year, with coaches and visitors looking for something to do indoors whilst on a short break to Cornwall – it's definitely something that we would like to improve".
The Victorian Village is a life-size re-creation – and is a major attraction in it's own right. The atmosphere of bustling streets and alleyways with over 50 different shops and domestic situations makes it a really unique destination in Cornwall. It's all authentically recreated with thousands of genuine artefacts and 'populated' by very realistic life-sized models of people and animals going about their daily business. You really can step back in time and see history come alive!
There's also the fascinating world of William White to discover, a pharmacist who lived and worked in Somerset. When he died in 1909, the shop was boarded up by his son who wasn't qualified to dispense drugs, the shop remained untouched for more than 80 years. The walls are lined with medicine bottles, apothecary jars, quartz carboys, demijohns, pill dispensers and mortars and pestles. This whole shop was carefully installed to Flambards as it was – lock, stock and cobweb!
Britain in the Blitz exhibition is a life-size re-creation interpreting war-time. Hear the air raid sirens and literally feel the floor shake as another bomb hits the target. A visit will illustrate what life was like on the Home Front. Peep in to a wartime kitchen, a classroom and an evocative railway platform scene showing children evacuating. There' a series of letters to home from children evacuated to Cornwall escape the threat of bombs.
Flambards Indoor Exhibitions will be open Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays from 27th January till the 26 March 2015.
The Blitz Cafe will also be open for refreshments.
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