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Bourne Hall Museum Club
for children 8yrs and above
For more information contact David Brooks dbrooks@epsom-ewell.gov.uk
http://www.epsomandewellhistoryexplorer.org.uk/BourneHallMuseumClub.html
Monthly meeting held at Bourne Hall to inspire a love of history and archaeolgy in the younger generation
For information on the latest Museum Club events advertised in April 2025 see below.
The Home Front in Epsom and Ewell
Saturday 10th May 1pm to 2.30 pm
Bourne Hall Museum Kids Club
To Commemorate the 80th anniversary of VE Day
Be prepared with gas mask training and air raid drill, learn what happened after a bomb fell. Could you deliver messages in an air raid during the blackout? Discover how to put out one of the firebombs dropped on Epsom in their tens of thousands during the war. Try to play cigarette cards just like wartime children, and discover where to find bits of bomb after a raid.
Cost £6.50 per child.
Contact: David Brooks, Bourne Hall Museum,
Spring Street, Ewell, Surrey, KT17 1UF.
Tel 020 8394 1734. Email dbrooks@epsom-ewell.gov.uk
Epsom and Ewell in WW2
Saturday 10th May 2025 10.30am to 12.00pm
To Commemorate the 80th anniversary of VE Day
Epsom and Ewell suffered heavily from bombing in World War 2 and from 1940 to 1944, 890 alerts were sounded, 384 people were injured by enemy action and 33 killed. There were more than 200 incidents with 12,234 houses slightly damaged, 413 devastated and 192 completely destroyed, while thousands of incendiary and anti-personnel bombs were dropped with 440 high explosive, 64 oil and 30 flying bombs falling on the Borough.
£6.50 per person. Contact: David Brooks, Bourne Hall Museum, Spring Street, Ewell, Surrey KT17 1UF
Tel 020 8394 1734.
Email dbrooks@epsom-ewell.gov.uk
Epsom & Ewell History
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