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1st June 2025
1940's Armed Forces Day
Tempsford Museum and Archives​
We hope you will enjoy another year of exciting new exhibitions.
A DATE FOR YOUR DIARY
For those interested in RAF Tempsford
Sunday 1st June 2025
10am till 5pm
An all day 1940's event. With lots of associated organisations and other museums in attendance.
We have four speakers and our museum will be open with
​an Exhibition on RAF Tempsford
and the Special Operations Executive
see our website for updates nearer the time.
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Our exhibition for Sunday
4th May 2025 will be
"RAF Tempsford and the work of the Special Operations Executive"
with a variety of Photographs
And Ephemera on show.
Don't forget our one day 1940s event
on 1st June from 10am till 5pm.
Our Tea Room will be serving a variety of Home Baked Cakes,
Tea and Coffee and other speciality teas and soft drinks.
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Entry is still only £2.00 with children under 16 free
and of course free entry to members.
We open from 2pm till 4pm.
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we look forward to greeting you.
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Our Story
Tempsford Museum and Archive opened in July 2013. It houses a vast collection of memorabilia, artefacts, deeds, estate maps, newspaper articles, family papers, photographs, books and letters associated with the village of Tempsford, collected over more than 20 years by local amateur historian, Steve Cooney.
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This combined with family papers and artefacts owned by the Gosling family whom have been in the village for over 400 years, means we have an extensive historical collection.
Together Steve Cooney and Carole Gosling came up with the idea that the collection needed to be entrusted to a group
of trustees to look after it for the long term future,
and so the Museum and Archive was born