Walk through history in Flambards' award winning undercover exhibitions in Helston, Cornwall this winter season. Perfect for groups from small to large, Flambards' indoor experiences is an authentic spectacle with fascinating features and stunning attention to detail.

Exhibitions include: Britain in the Blitz, The War Gallery and Aviation Experience to an entire Victorian Village Flambards offers an exciting historical day out packed with plenty of heritage and memorabilia.

Step back in time to the 1800s and the reign of Queen Victoria into the unique Victorian Village.

With an atmosphere of bustling streets and alleyways, hidden nooks and crannies, the village is an incredible all round sensory experience – think sights, smells and real cobble stone roads!

Groups can wander through the life-size village and discover over 50 scenes.  Gaze through shop windows, step inside the local pub, visit the green grocers, ironmongers, butchers, shoemakers and even the apothecary – everything from a schoolroom and blacksmiths to the fire station is authentically recreated with thousands of genuine artefacts.

Discover the world of William White, a pharmacist who lived and worked in Somerset.  When he died in 1909, the shop was boarded up by his son who wasn't qualified to dispense drugs, the shop remained untouched for more than 80 years.  The walls are lined with medicine bottles, apothecary jars, quartz carboys, demijohns, pill dispensers and mortars and pestles.  This whole shop was carefully installed to Flambards as it was – lock, stock and cobweb!

The Britain in the Blitz exhibition is a life-size re-creation of daily life during the war.  Hear the air raid sirens and literally feel the floor shake as another bomb hits its target.  A visit will illustrate what life was like on the Home Front.  Peep in to a wartime kitchen, a classroom and an evocative railway platform scene showing children evacuating.  There are a series of fascinating letters to home sent from children evacuated to Cornwall in order to escape the threat of bombs.

The War Gallery is closely linked with the Britain in the Blitz exhibition, and is a respectful tribute to all of the men and women of Great Britain and The Commonwealth who served in World Wars 1 and 2. Taking a look at the hardships that all of the men, women and children endured through the toughest of times when life had to go on. 

Aviation enthusiasts will appreciate 'A Century of Pioneering Flight' an interactive exhibition showcasing some of the remarkable highlights in aviation history throughout the last Century.  It features three widely varying achievements, each of them momentous: Richard Pearse, Charles Kingsford Smith and the iconic record-breaking Concorde.

Go indoors this winter at Flambards.

Flambards, Helston, Cornwall, TR13 0QA

Tel: 01326 573404 | info@flambards.co.uk | www.flambards.co.uk

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For more information contact:

Melodie Manners | melodie@flamingo-marketing.co.uk | 01637 873379 or 07815 709548

Notes to Editors

Groups Rates & Packages (20+)

Group packages can be arranged to include morning coffee and home-baked cake, light lunch and cream tea. Pre-booking necessary.

Winter Opening Hours
November: Open Tues – Thurs inclusive from 10am
December: Open Tues – Thurs inclusive from 10am

*CLOSED FOR CHRISTMAS 18 Dec – 25 Jan*

January 2016 : Open Tues 26 – Thurs inclusive from 10 am