Purfleet Heritage & Military Centre

Exhibits, guided tours and special events showcasing local and military history housed in a Grade 1 listed building, No.5 Magazine, Purfleet-on-Thames

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Built to keep gunpowder cool and dry, it's still one of the coolest places to be in a heatwave.

Gunpowder had to be cool.

History is cooler.

#museum #thurrock #daysout #coolplaces #Purfleet

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With forecast temperatures of 34 degrees escape the heat and experience 18th-century air conditioning at Magazine No.5, home of the Purfleet Heritage & Military Centre.

Open Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday 10am to 3pm

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A big thank you to Upminster Windmill for allowing us to bring a Purfleet Heritage and Military Centre stand along with our cars.

We had a great day and met some really interesting people.

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Just over three weeks until the Purfleet Heritage and Military Centre's Salute!

Don't miss a very special day.

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Purfleet Heritage and Military Centre is pleased to be hosting its annual Gurkha and SALUTE Festival on Sunday 16th August.

If anyone would like to bring along a stall to the event to promote their charity, group or business, contact us at our website, https://t.co/4536gm8wHD

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A great evening with our new friends from Aveley Beavers and Cubs.

And well done to our latest volunteer Lilly for a wonderful talk on the 1940s kitchen.

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Escape the heat and experience 18th-century air conditioning at Magazine No.5, home of the Purfleet Heritage & Military Centre.

Built to keep gunpowder cool and dry, it's still one of the coolest places to be in a heatwave.

Gunpowder had to be cool.

History is cooler.

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Purfleet Heritage and Military Centre are pleased to welcome back Ken Slaney for another of his outstanding presentations on Sunday 19th July.

The Silence of the Past. A personal family story.

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Len served as a cadet, through service in the RAF Regiment and later as our standard bearer at many an event. A former trustee and the curator of our RAF Regiment display, his cheerful smile and wicked sense of humour has been missed by all since his death in May last year.

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On Wednesday 17th June we will be holding a ceremony to unveil a plaque in what will always be Len's RAF Regiment bay.

All welcome, please arrive around 11:30am for the unveiling at 12 noon and refreshments afterwards.

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Did you or a relative work at Thames Board Mills? If so, this event is for you.

The Purfleet Heritage and Military Centre houses a large colection of artefacts and photographs from TBM.

Come along, reminisce and maybe meet old colleagues on August 9th at the Magazine.

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Thank you to everyone who turned up on Saturday night for the Ghost & Folklore Walk. We had a great time & somehow the windy weather added to the atmosphere.

The next walk is in September, see below. We look forward to seeing you.

Tickets available at https://t.co/2dfrAqiqiS

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Housed in six bays within Magazine No.5, come and see it on our regular opening days, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday, from 10am to 3pm.

We look forward to welcoming you soon.

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As part of the ongoing refurbishment of the Heritage Centre the Hornchurch Wing collection, which has been on display since 1997, has been curated and redisplayed.

https://t.co/EvxM23Abfi

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The collection is the largest of original RFC Suttons Farm and RAF Hornchurch memorabilia, uniforms and medals on display in the country.

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A great review of the Purfleet Heritage and Military Centre from @ianvisits

Read it here: https://t.co/K5B1FuQwOI

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From bouncing bombs to bunker signs: inside Purfleet’s military museum

(visit the ianvisits website for the story)

An 18th-century naval gunpowder store in Purfleet is now packed floor-to-ceiling with military artefacts, local history and wonderfully eccentric displays.

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We are always looking for people to join our team of friendly enthusiastic volunteers. If you can spare some time to help guide, present, maintain or assist in any other way at the Centre, please get in at the website, https://t.co/4536gm8wHD

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This week is Volunteers Week.

We would like to say a massive thank you to the fabulous team who keep the Purfleet Heritage and Military Centre open and running.

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@Guided_Walks Come see the site of Dracula's home in Purfleet. Carfax, based on the old Whitbread House.

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Our volunteers have come up with this list of 10 artefacts that have to be seen in any visit to the Purfleet Heritage and Military Centre.

Come and see if they are right.

Open every Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday, 10am-3pm.

https://t.co/xcy0KLJqLD