1940s Day

 12th July, 2026 10am-4pm, last admission 3pm.

Step back in time to the 1940’s to dance, dine, swing and sing!

• With the GI 41-45 WW2 Military Re-enactors,
• Singers  Sarah Mae and Michael Anthony 
• East Anglia Swing Troupe 
• Vehicles.
• Stalls. 
• Dance floor 
• Food van
• Licensed bar (including locally brewed Burwell Brewery beers)
• Ice-cream from Scoopy Doo
• Winston Churchill & Mrs Churchill 
• Mildenhall Scale Model Club – hand built models of period aircraft and vehicles.

Dressing in 40s clothes encouraged, especially if children come dressed as evacuees! Feel free to dance!

Admission charges apply (free for Season Ticket holders)

BACK TO THE FORTIES Provisional Running Order (available nearer to the day)

Location map on the Find Us page which also gives directions to get to the museum. A map of the museum site is available to download from the Explore page.

Car Parking As the museum is in the middle of a residential area, we ask able-bodied visitors to avoid parking in Mill Close and causing difficulties for our lovely neighbours! Please leave Mill Close for residents and the disabled.

Free parking is available in the Gardiner Memorial Hall car park, in Burwell High Street (CB25 0HD, look out for the A-board opposite the car park entrance when we’re open). The museum is a short walk (about 200m) along Mill Close – find the museum sign (rear left of carpark), go up the path out of the car park and take the road which leads straight ahead just to your left.
Carpark entrance location on What3Words ///intestine.dictation.goat and on Google Maps https://maps.app.goo.gl/VaG7SXJQSLqd2aQn7.

Parking is also available at Burwell Surgery Car Park in Newmarket Road. (CB25-0AE). What3Words ///filer.viewer.spiking.  This is located a few minute’s walk from the Museum via Newmarket Road, High Street and Mill Lane.

Parking is to the rear of the surgery, and please park with due consideration to others.

To summarise:

• Gardiner Memorial Hall car park, just off the High Street near the 5 Bells pub. It will be signed as “Burwell Museum Open – Car Park” during opening hours. What3Words location of carpark entrance ///intestine.dictation.goat
• Additional parking for this event at Burwell Surgery, Newmarket Road (What3Words ///filer.viewer.spiking). Pedestrian route to and from the surgery carpark will be via Newmarket Road>High Street>Mill Lane.  
• Disabled parking only in Mill Close.

You can download and print our poster by clicking the image below. Perhaps give a copy to someone who isn’t online.