Saturday 11 August 2018

Old Buckenham airfield trip

Learning local history
The Social and Wine Circle left the confines of the Church Rooms for their August meeting. The members met at Old Buckenham Airfield to be shown around the museum to the 453rd Bomb Group that is in a purpose-built building on the site. They were shown round by the curator James Clarey who, at the age of ten, had started collecting memorabilia from the US 8th Air Forces based in East Anglia during the closing months of WW II. Over the decades his efforts have expanded the collection into a moderately-sized free museum. 
Members then adjourned to Jimmy’s CafĂ© adjacent to enjoy tea, coffee and cake as well as discussing what they had seen.

Bob Coman looking to see if he was in photos of Christmas parties
at the airfield taken when he ten years old. 

Enjoying a mardle in Jimmy's cafe



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