paulob1 Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 Ok after years of fighting the planning departments I have decided to open the museum on my business park. so we are opening on the 4th May. The amount of work and space needed is vast. We will do our best to display everything we have but it will take time. We have about 6000 sq feet of units and two camp bastion tents and a few covered areas. We will have a coffee shop serving basic food and tea and coffee plus a seating area. We will have a rudimentary shop selling stuff including some outdoor wear. It’s very exciting for us but it will take us at least a year to get fully operational. And anyone who knows me it will never stay the same from week to week so will always be changing. It will never be right. Any advise given is always welcome. Shut down however will not be listened too. And if we are voted the worst museum in the uk I will Cry. But if we are we will endeavour to improve. I will also be restarting the lectures again and am looking for interesting speakers. The first talk will be a short review of the Cuban crises. Date to be confirmed we also have details on the Gary powers incident and possibly a talk about f4 phantom and interception of a tu 95 bear stories etc. anyway it is happening you will have to book online for now. You can’t just turn up at the moment. Please watch this space for booking details. We are looking for volunteers of all kinds if anyone lives near Guildford get in touch. All helpers welcome. No matter your skills. Shop assistants coffee shop cakes door duties vehicle cleaning repairs the list goes on forever. If you can give us any time it is brilliant. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulob1 Posted February 3 Author Share Posted February 3 Today lance one of our volunteers helped me to take down one of the camp bastion tents ready for shipping to Guildford. Thanks lance. i have been donated ex army rapier launcher and missiles and am hoping these will be part of the BAOR display…which will be in the camp bastion tent with the Afghanistan war when Russia tried to beat the TALIBAN. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan110 Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 Have you heard of the podcast Cold War Conversations? I have listened to many episodes and found almost all very interesting. I just saw that the interviewer/owner Ian Sanders can be booked for talks: https://coldwarconversations.com/public-speaking/. He also might have contacts with other people that might of interest. Hope this helps! Daniel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulob1 Posted February 20 Author Share Posted February 20 Yes yes and Yes...thanks Daniel... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulob1 Posted July 9 Author Share Posted July 9 Museum is going well. We have official confirmation we can open 28days a year...so we are...next we will apply for the change of use of the offices to a museum. This should then make everything available next year...we wont be ready with indoor displays until next year anyway... Our volunteer groups are growing. Only a handful so far but its a start...as we get more operational we will see more people helping. I have been so focused on planning permission it has been impossible to progress the actual museum. this country is truly screwed when even a museum gets refused...I so hope labour will make planning easier but I suspect they will change little other than big business stuff. This is such a sad facsimile of what Britain used to be even immediately after the war, even then we had hope if not much money, now we have no hope and no money...the museum will document some of the changes... 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norseman 02 Posted July 9 Share Posted July 9 Good luck with the project, I'm far too far away to volunteer but I wish you & your helpers every success. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulob1 Posted July 18 Author Share Posted July 18 We have just collected our trailed rapier battery and missiles, it is now on display... We have coach bookings for next year 52, see below, coming and are looking to be very busy already. We have Gary Powers jnr bringing a tour from America...they will be stopping off to have a look...very exciting group of American tourists who will get the full tour... I am hoping to start our evening talks again next year too...the proposed topics are the Kursk explosion, the recovery, the U2 incident, the close calls of nuclear war, the Nuclear race, the space race and other such titles. we are looking for competent speakers who would be interested in taking on some subjects or have a particular interest in a subject... Ideally it needs to be related to the Cold war Russia and its past etc...I am particularly looking for someone who specialises in Russian Communism as we want to start next year wuith this as our first discussion. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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