Weekend Update: Move Complete – Signing Off from Scunthorpe

Weekend Update: Move Complete – Signing Off from Scunthorpe

This weekend was C-day…. For containers before anyone makes assumptions! The trucks were confirmed for 8am and so the volunteers rocked up at the gates ready to receive the crew from Haddington Contracting Ltd with their HIAB equipped trucks to shift the containers...

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End of Year and January 2024 Update

End of Year and January 2024 Update

Firstly, and most importantly, Happy New Year to everyone who has and continue to help us through our journey to reopen to the public in our own permanent facility, something that is continuing to elude us as the future of Scampton is still being hotly contested by...

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Weekend Update: On the Move Again…

Weekend Update: On the Move Again…

Here we are in December and fast approaching the end of 2023. With the deadline to move out of our headquarters in Scunthorpe fast approaching, it goes without saying that our team have been working full speed to get everything together and consolidate as much of our...

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Weekend Update: The Tipping Point

Weekend Update: The Tipping Point

The weekends past have been incredibly busy for the museum volunteers, both at the museum and home so apologies for the bundled updates. Everyone probably already knows and appreciates this already, but just because we are radio silent on the updates doesn’t mean we...

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Dave Murray

Dave Murray

With heavy hearts we are sorry to report the loss of Dave Murray earlier this month after a long and courageous battle against cancer. Dave was a retained Fireman with Humberside Fire and Rescue Service and the Chief Fire Officer for Conoco Oil Refinery. He first...

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WEEKEND UPDATE: Hot and Humid but Progress Continues!

WEEKEND UPDATE: Hot and Humid but Progress Continues!

It’s been a while since an update and it has got to the point that if there was any more to type it would need to be published as a book. The show season has well and truly started so activity has been rife over the preceding weekends to get the vehicles prepped. The...

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Museum of RAF Firefighting at Lincolnshire Show!

Museum of RAF Firefighting at Lincolnshire Show!

The Museum of RAF Firefighting are proudly displaying the WOT-1, Mk9, Navy TACR-2, the RIV and the Mobile Display Unit at the Liincolnshire Show this Wednesday and Thursday (21st and 22nd of June)! Please come along and show your support - our volunteers will be happy...

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Weekend Update: May Disappears in a Blink!

Weekend Update: May Disappears in a Blink!

Between the bank holidays, Coronation of King Charles and everything else, it would appear we’ve been almost radio silent on the social media channels. Thankfully this doesn’t reflect the work going on by the volunteers in the background. So, strap in, this update is...

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Weekend Update: TACRs Get the Show Treatment

Weekend Update: TACRs Get the Show Treatment

Again the sun shone brightly for the Museum volunteers at Scunthorpe and for an added bonus, the wind was blowing in the right direction so the Kandahar -Poo-Pond-esque smells (those who know, know...) were at the other end of the industrial estate for once – it’s the...

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RAF Scampton, Brambles, Virtual Belts and Balanced Brakes

RAF Scampton, Brambles, Virtual Belts and Balanced Brakes

As some of you pointed out at the beginning of the month, the team at the Museum of RAF Firefighting were elated to receive news that Scampton Holdings Ltd – the consortium that we are in partnership with - had been selected by West Lyndsey District Council after...

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Weekend Update: New Additions to the Collection

Weekend Update: New Additions to the Collection

Already we are into February - where has January disappeared to!? After last week's AGM it was decided that the volunteers would have a different day from the normal Saturday museum shenanigans as the lack of personnel meant that it would be risky to be working at two...

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Weekend Update: Fog and Frost is the Order of the Day

Weekend Update: Fog and Frost is the Order of the Day

All of the volunteers at the Museum want to start this update by wishing everyone a happy and prosperous 2023. It seems ludicrous that there have been no updates on the website since September but here we are two thirds of the way through January. Hopefully this will...

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Obituary: George Hook

Obituary: George Hook

With heavy hearts we are sorry to report the loss of another one of our Museum volunteers, George Hook, after a short stay in Hospital. Our deepest sympathies go to his friends and family. George has been a volunteer for over 8 years joining the team with fellow...

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Weekend Update: God Save the King

Weekend Update: God Save the King

This weekend, of course, was a muted affair after the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II earlier this week. As Families day was rightly cancelled by RAF Waddington as a mark of respect, we had to recover the DP1, WOT-1 and the TACR-2 which had been positioned...

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Museum’s MK 9 Makes Appearance at Beckingham Transport Rally

Museum’s MK 9 Makes Appearance at Beckingham Transport Rally

The Museum's Mk 9 made an important trip out today from another one of our storage locations in the county to support the Beckingham Transport Rally. The event brings together a wide range of automobiles of all shapes, sizes and purposes to raise funds for the Lincs...

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Weekend Update: Bumper Edition

Weekend Update: Bumper Edition

We hope that this edition of the Bubblewrap Blog finds you all suitably rested and cooler than our volunteers after this weekend! Although its been hot, it’s something that we were all very much looking forward to as we were at the Trolleybus Museum’s Blues and Twos...

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Weekend Update: Onwards and upwards.

Weekend Update: Onwards and upwards.

This weekend marks the anniversary of the end of Op Banner, the longest continually supported operation in British military history, lasting over 37 years. Op Banner was the British Military operation in Northern Ireland supporting the Royal Ulster Constabulary and...

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Weekend(s) Update: 3 Weekends of Hard Graft Producing Results

Weekend(s) Update: 3 Weekends of Hard Graft Producing Results

The ‘Bubblewrap Blog’ has been a touch quiet over the last three weeks, but rest assured the efforts behind the scenes have continued as the Museum and volunteers react to the loss of the storage facility which has been our refuge for the last year. The owners have...

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