June has been an exciting month…
On Saturday the 17th of June East Grinstead Museum welcomed VIP guests,Guinea Pig Club members Jack Perry and John Miles; accompanied by friends and family including actress Fiona Dolman. Bob Marchant, Secretary of the Guinea Pig Club and Museum Trustee, led a guided tour of the Rebuilding Bodies and Souls exhibition.
7 months after opening the exhibition is pulling international interest, with recent visitors from Australia, Canada and Dubai!
If you would like to hear a short introduction to our museum, please listen to this recent BBC Sussex interview with Museum Coordinator Catherine Baldery broadcast last week. Interview is at 1:11 on the following link. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p054pzhb
Jack Perry looking at the Airmen’s story John Miles looking at the operating theatre and medical history.
Fiona Dolman explores the dressing up area! Visitors from far and wide leave wonderful comments.
We've been looking through our collections, and discovered this 1972 photograph from the East Grinstead Observer, o…
Comments(2)
Claire Garnham says:
September 30, 2017 at 1:28 pmHello, not sure if you an help …….my dad, Bruce Reginald Kidson was badly burnt in the war and joined the Guinea Club. I was not with my father from about age 5 or 6 and wondered who I could contact to get information about him, and actually wonder if he was the secretary spoken about who had badly burned hands /fingers as he did I understand.
John Briggs says:
April 22, 2018 at 5:22 pmI am looking for a list of nurses who served under sir Archibald Mcindoe, in particular Joan Eileen Perry, can anyone clarify this for me please