Exhibitions Open All Year Round
Published: 18th November 2015Flambards, Helston is excited to announce that the award-winning undercover exhibitions, including the Victorian Village, Britain in the Blitz and Aviation Experience will be open all year round, excluding Christmas and New Year (18 Dec-5 Jan).
Manager, Richard Smith, says: “The undercover Exhibitions at Flambards are an inexhaustibly interesting experience for visitors and I am pleased to announce that we are now able to offer this all year.”
He continues: “We are looking forward to welcoming even more people to explore the expertly curated exhibitions much more throughout the year and to establish ourselves as a great day out for local visitors whatever the weather.”
The walk-through experiences allow visitors become time-travellers and journey back through history to learn about England’s exciting past.
Visitors to the life-size Victorian Village have an unparalleled opportunity to journey back in time to the Victorian era and experience daily working life in over 50 authentically recreated shops and scenes. Visitors will be immersed in the undercover experience as they walk through real cobbled streets taking shortcuts through alleyways and stepping in and out of essential trades of the time from the butchers, bakers, iron-mongers to general stores; all bringing British heritage to life.
The award-winning display also leads visitors through Victorian home-life, from the nursery to bedrooms and bathroom to the downstairs kitchen. The permanent exhibition has an unprecedented attention to detail with historical artefacts, and packaging in abundance, which makes for a genuine time travel delight. Each scene has been individually salvaged and recreated from the real streets of England. Shop fronts are instantly recognisable to some visitors evoking an exciting feeling of nostalgia for the historical high street. Whilst products, clothes and industrial items add to the sights and smells of the unique Village, creating an enchanting adventure to the Victorian era.
One such literally recreated shop that visitors will discover is William White’s Chemist Time Capsule. The Apothecary was discovered after being locked away and forgotten since 1909 in South Petherton, Somerset. The shop was reassembled exactly as it was found, minus the poisons and more dangerous compounds confiscated by the Home Office. The walls are lined with medicine bottles, apothecary jars, quartz carboys, demijohns, pill dispensers and mortars and pestles. This whole shop was carefully installed exactly as it was – lock stock and cobweb.
The Britain in the Blitz exhibition presents a life-size recreation of a street during WWII. Travel back in time to the 1940s by the deafening sound of air raid sirens and literally feel the floor shake as another bomb hits the target. Explore the life-size street and experience life on the Home Front. Peep into an authentic air raid shelter, wartime kitchen, atmospheric pub and an evocative railway platform scene, crammed with evacuees hoping to escape the danger.
The Aviation Experience is an exhibition of some remarkable highlights in aviation history, featuring three widely varying momentous achievements: First Sustained Powered Flight, First Flight between Australia and England, and Record Breaking Concorde.
Other special exhibitions include a unique Wedding Dress display showing bridal attire through the ages and a Vintage Motorcycles Exhibition.