Following several interviews broadcast on BBC Radio Humberside and BBC Radio Lincolnshire the Museum received a generous offer from Richard Walsh of Thurlby Motors to use their empty car showroom located in the village of Thurlby, just outside Alford, Lincolnshire as a temporary home for the collection.
Museum Trustees met with Richard and his business partner Gail Smith to discuss options and an initial six-month lease has been agreed. This is an extraordinarily generous offer and opportunity for the museum to survive and ultimately flourish in a fantastic facility deep in the heart of Lincolnshire Wolds, a very popular tourist destination.
There is a great deal of work to do in order to relocate the Museum, but it is hoped that we will reopen by Easter 2021.
There is a mammoth task ahead for the Trustees as they work to secure funding in order to rent or buy the site from Thurlby Motors, but this could be the first step in finding a permanent home for the collection. More details and photographs will appear on a regular basis, but we urge you all to get behind this project and help us to realise our dream.
We would like to express our sincere gratitude to Richard and Gail for their support and we look forward to working with them in the coming months as we strive once more to establish a first-class Firefighting Museum, educational facility and community hub.
Great news! Good luck moving and settling in.
Hope to visit you in your new home.
Quality!!!! That is great news for you all and I am so pleased to hear your hard work and dedication has paid off. All the best wishes for the future and hopefully this could be your last move. All the best, Stevie.B. x
Well done guys.
That’s fantastic news tinged with some sadness. Great to see the museum with a new home, but also sad to see the demise of Thurlby Motors from Thurlby, after so many years there. I bought my Astra Estate from Thurlby Motors way back in 1998 and she is still giving me good service more than 22 years and 218,000 miles on. Wishing you the best of luck in your new home and looking forward to visiting when Covid allows.
Chas Tibble – ex WO MT Tech with 38 years RAF service from 1968 to 2006
Wonderful news ! will be really looking forward to riding down to see the collection again in the near future
Good news it’s a small step. Good luck.
Great News . Wishing you every success
Great news. I visited billet lane a few weeks before the news about the notice to vacate
and a had a great day looking around also joined as a supporter of the museum and RAF&Defence Fire Services Association. ex RAF fire service
Great news. Hope to visit at new location. ex RAF fire service
Fantastic news, looking forward to seeing you guys up and running again
Great news. Let’s hope this is the start of a more positive future, which all your hard work and dedication deserves. Looking forward to visiting soon.
Brilliant news👍🏻 Visited whilst you were at Scampton. Now that Scampton is closing your perhaps in a better place, I’m not a firefighter or ex firefighter but what you’re doing is fantastic, you’d have thought you’d have had more support from RAF / RAF Museum . Well done😀