1940s Day

Sun Jul 12 2026 at 10:00 am to 04:00 pm UTC+01:00

Burwell Museum, Mill Close, Burwell, CB25 0HL Cambridge, United Kingdom | Cambridge

Burwell Museum and Windmill
Publisher/HostBurwell Museum and Windmill
1940s Day
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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 (tbc)
Vehicles.
Stalls.
Dance floor
Food van
Licensed bar (including locally brewed Burwell Brewery beers)
Ice-cream from Scoopy Doo
Winston Churchill & Mrs Churchill (tbc)
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!
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 at the 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 (Mill Close)
Carpark entrance location on What3Words ///intestine.dictation.goat and on Google Maps https://maps.app.goo.gl/VaG7SXJQSLqd2aQn7.
Please note that the Gardiner Memorial Hall car park is not suitable for camper vans or for cars towing a trailer.
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. This car park can accommodate camper vans on the day of the event, only.
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Burwell Museum, Mill Close, Burwell, CB25 0HL Cambridge, United Kingdom, Burwell Museum And Windmill, Mill Close, Cambridge, CB25 0HL, United Kingdom

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