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Wartime Christmas
Price
£7–40
Adults £12; children aged 3–16 £7; family ticket £40. Father Christmas in the Blitz Grotto costs an additional £5 per child. No advance booking is required; Gift Aid re-entry cards are valid.
Where
Staffordshire Regiment Museum, Whittington Barracks, Whittington, Lichfield, Staffordshire, WS14 9PY
About
A Christmas event recreating Home Front and trench traditions, with a Blitz Grotto, ration display, wartime stalls, seasonal music, a Christmas Truce reenactment and a history talk.
The programme includes a Friends’ stall with Jolly Jars and knitted soldiers and Santas, a Christmas dinner on a ration display, musical performances by the Tammy Land Girls, a Christmas Truce reenactment, meetings with troops in the trenches, a WWII unexploded-bomb display and a talk about WWI Princess Mary gift tins. Children can meet Father Christmas in the Blitz Grotto for an additional £5 per child.
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Listed on staffordshireregimentmuseum.com. Details can change, so check with the organiser before you go.