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April 2026
Lichfield’s Largest Preloved Jigsaw Sale
Free entry to the sale. All proceeds go towards the running of this independent museum and charity. Any donations of jigsaws will be gratefully received.
Find out more »My Father, POW
Speaker Vanessa Morgan: My father, Francis Hill, joined the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers in September 1939 and was with the British Expeditionary Force in France until May 1940. They were then told to make for Dunkirk, and it was on his way to Dunkirk that he, and a group of friends, were captured. Sent to a POW camp in Poland he was quickly sent out on working parties for the next four years. He was then part of the…
Find out more »May 2026
Monthly Cellar Tour
Learn more about part of the house that is not normally open to the public on this fascinating cellar tour. Children over 12 years only. There are steps leading to the cellar and the floor is uneven.
Find out more »“Yellow Faces, Brave Hearts: The Unknown Stories of the Canary Girls in World War One”
Come and find out about the fascinating and often tragic stories of the girls and women who signed up to be munition workers. They suffered danger, explosions and poisoning whilst involved in making munitions for the War effort during the First World War! Speaker Paul Wilkins.
Find out more »‘I was not expecting that’
‘I was not expecting that’ an illustrated sports talk with Neil Wagstaff featuring some of the most obscure, fascinating and frankly weird sports stories from the local area and further afield. This will have a historical element and will appeal to a very wide audience not just those of a sporting persuasion!
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