What’s on

The Friends of St Neots Museum present a charity fundraising film show for the Museum in the afternoon. They will be showing the dramatic Second World War film Carve Her Name With Pride starring Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield and Jack Warner, which tells the true story of Violette Szabo G.C. a Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent who flew from RAF Tempsford on her first mission into German occupied France.

The film has been chosen to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War and the 80th anniversary of VE Day (8th May 1945) which is being marked in 2020 with a Bank Holiday on Friday 8th May.

Tickets, at just £10 will be available from the Museum, when it reopens after the annual January closure on 4 February 2020

Also organised by the Friends of the Museum is a talk by Dr Steve Sherlock about the remarkable archaeological discoveries made during the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon road improvement scheme. This has been one of the largest archaeological programmes ever undertaken in the UK and archaeologists have revealed amazing stories of thousands of years of human life and settlement in the Cambridgeshire landscape. Come along to hear the latest update on the discoveries and to hear about plans for further excavations as the A428 road scheme begins in 2020. Tickets for the talk will be available in February.

In 2020 our Living History Festival will be a multi-period event with actors and historians from a wide variety of periods gathered for the day on St Neots Market Square.