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...
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...
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...
Weekend A lot of Updates: Steam Rally, IBCC and Digby Day and the Rest of it…
Despite apologies and promises of trying to be more regular, here we are in mid-October and somehow we haven’t posted since this time in August. Our resident writer, editor and publisher has decided to get promoted at work whilst starting on a remote learning masters...
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...
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...
Weekend Updates: Lincolnshire Show and North Lincolnshire Armed Forces Day
Last week saw the Museum setup and attend the Lincolnshire Show at Lincoln Showground. The show consisted of some incredible displays of the best the Lincolnshire had to offer including some amazing heritage displays not too far from where the Museum was setup. We...
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...
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...
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...
Weekend Update: Red Goddess Fired Up and Show Dates for the Calendar.
A small army of a dozen volunteers turned up this weekend at Scunthorpe who were again blessed with great weather for the day’s activities. The TACR1 returned after it’s day out at RAF Newton last week and needed some minor electrical work which was completed on site....
Weekend Update: RAF Newton Memorial Unveiling and More Artefacts
Another busy weekend greeted the team as they opened the headquarters for the day ahead. First task of the day was to empty the van which had collected yet more artefacts and documentation from RAFC Cranwell. This included various 35mm slides, a plethora of Air...
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...
Weekend Update: TACR2 Swap, DMS Technologies Donation and Rain Showers
On the week of the 80th Anniversary of the Dambusters formation, the museum volunteers turned out in relative sunshine at Scunthorpe for a range of activities throughout the day. Matt from MJD Commercials also turned up with some belts for the RIV’s alternator so...
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...
Weekend Update(s) – Dead Batteries, Smokey Starts and Holey Tanks
It’s been a bit quiet on the weekly update front again so we thought it was best to bring people back up to date on the activities we’ve been undertaking around the sites in the past few weeks. Strap yourselves in - there's alot to get through. Following the...
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...
Sending Our Deepest Sympathy and Support to the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service
The news that Scottish Firefighter, Barry Martin, has passed away from the injuries sustained at the former Jenners building fire in Edinburgh earlier this week has been met with profound sadness by all at the Museum of RAF Firefighting. We would like to send our...
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...
We Will Remember Them.
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...
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...
Queen’s Flight Scania Back on the run at Brighton City Airport!
For avid followers of the Museum, some may be thinking where the Queen's Flight Scania has been in all the years that we have been in storage. Well, instead of collecting dust and sitting silent, an opportunity arose for the vehicle to be loaned to Brighton City...
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...
Weekend Update: Show Prep for Digby Day and IBCC Wings and Wheels
After everyone’s grass was watered during the week, the Museum Staff were greeted with glorious weather as we all turned up to Scunthorpe for another day of work and preparation for upcoming shows which the Museum are planning to exhibit vehicles and the Mobile...
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...
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...
Weekend Update: Mission Accomplished – The Museum is out of the Storage Building
Firstly, we hope all the Fathers and father figures out there are enjoying Father’s Day today surrounded by loved ones and those who are deployed or are away find another day to celebrate it with their loved ones. Another one of our Volunteers also marked the...
Weekend(s) Update: The Platinum Jubilee is here but work goes on!
First and foremost, the Museum would like to wish Her Majesty The Queen our sincere congratulations on the occasion of her Platinum Jubilee. A truly momentous event marking Seventy Years of unwavering commitment and service to the country and her Armed Forces which...
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...