Museum of RAF Firefighting on the Move Again…

Museum of RAF Firefighting on the Move Again…

After more than a year of free storage the Museum of RAF Firefighting has been given notice that the main storage area, where the vast majority of the vehicles and artifacts are located, is required for a multi-year business contract. Whilst we are eternally grateful...

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Weekend Update: A Day of Easter Engineering

Weekend Update: A Day of Easter Engineering

Last week a small group of the museum volunteers assembled in the glorious sunshine to continue plugging away at the tasks at both Scunthorpe and the storage area. Although Scunthorpe made significant progress in the inventory work by starting to catalogue the vast...

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40th Anniversary of the Falklands War

40th Anniversary of the Falklands War

Today marks 40 years since the Argentine invasion and occupation of the Falkland Islands and South Georgia. Three days later, on April 5th 1982, Margaret Thatcher gave the order to dispatch a Naval task force to engage the Argentine Navy and Air Force before mounting...

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Weekend Update 2: Happy Mother’s Day

Weekend Update 2: Happy Mother’s Day

Now that the first part of the weekend has been covered we can now return to normal service and cover this weekend’s activities. With the sun shining, the team turned out in force for the day at Scunthorpe and we had a small catch up with the boss to bring him up to...

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Weekend Update: Museum Receives a delivery from the Falklands

Weekend Update: Museum Receives a delivery from the Falklands

Twelve museum staff braved the elements this week to arrive bright and breezy at the headquarters at Scunthorpe. The makeshift plastic sheet channels which we had attached at the beginning of the year were clearly making the difference as one of the containers was...

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Weekend Update: The Poseidon Maritime Patrol Fleet is Complete

Weekend Update: The Poseidon Maritime Patrol Fleet is Complete

Saturday started with our volunteers arriving to a thick white layer of frost at Scunthorpe and a bitterly cold day at the office. Once the kettle was boiled and some hot drinks were served to the volunteers, we set to our various areas of work around the museum. By a...

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Weekend Update: 80th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor

Weekend Update: 80th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor

The 7th of December 2021 marked the 80th Anniversary of the Japanese Attacks against Pearl Harbor. Whilst the attacks marked one of the biggest failures in the history of US Intelligence, the Japanese commander, Admiral Yamamoto, undoubtedly executed one of the most...

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Weekend Update: 103rd Armistice Weekend

Weekend Update: 103rd Armistice Weekend

This weekend will see many nations pause and remember the men, woman and various animals who have paid a price to ensure we can enjoy the freedoms we have today. Although many of our thoughts will rightly honour the dead from thet various conflicts before and after...

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Weekend Update: 60th Anniversary of Operation Sky Help

Weekend Update: 60th Anniversary of Operation Sky Help

60 years ago on the 2nd of November 1961, the RAF launched in support of Operation Sky Help following the destruction caused to British Honduras by Hurricane Hattie at the end of October that year. Hurricane Hattie subjected the islands to 140mph winds with gusts...

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Weekend Update: The RAF Continues Globetrotting!

Weekend Update: The RAF Continues Globetrotting!

RAF personnel have been deployed to the four corners of the world - as usual - this month judging by the social media and press updates which are being released. The RAF were drafted in earlier in the month to bring COVID vaccines to the British Antartic Survey...

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Weekend Update: Disbandment of 27 Sqn RAF Regiment

Weekend Update: Disbandment of 27 Sqn RAF Regiment

The RAF waved off another Sqn into the history books this week as 27 Sqn RAF Regiment was disbanded this week at RAF Honington. 27 Sqn was the RAF’s Chemical, Biological, Radioactive and Nuclear unit which would respond to any incident which required their specialist...

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Fordson 45 Monitor Appeal – What Next?

Fordson 45 Monitor Appeal – What Next?

As you may have read in other posts, the Museum of RAF Firefighting was able to make its fundraising targets, secure the Fordson 45 Monitor from the 493rd Bomb Group Museum Debach Airfield and reveal it to the public at LincsFest last weekend. However, now we have the...

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Access Lincs

Access Lincs

The Museum are very grateful to James Selby of Access Lincs who did a brilliant job for us yet again last week.  Firstly collecting the Museum's latest acquisition from Debach airfield in Suffolk transporting it up to Linclonshire for the big unveiling at lincs...

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