Thanks to press and television coverage as well as the support of the local authority's tourism officer, we have attracted people to visit the house from all over the country. Parties of children from other schools regularly visit the house as part of their history work and veterans associations also call when they hold reunions at Cranwell or former RAF Stations nearby. 2 years ago the BBC used the house in their 'Songs of Praise' programme for Remembrance Sunday and local film students made it the set for a short wartime drama. At Christmas the school children helped to create a 'Wartime Christmas' complete with home-made decorations and soon we shall be preparing to open the house again for this year. We know that the house will remain open until July this year, thanks to the continued interest and support of RAF Cranwell, but beyond that, its future is very much dependent on the accommodation needs of the Station and the MOD plans for the Station's development.
Many visitors enquire if this 'museum' so evocative for the generation who formed the Home Front during the second world war can stand as a permanent reminder of life half a century ago. The interest of local people still remains strong in this project. We continue to receive calls from people who want to donate items to our museum, rather than 'throw them away' when a relative dies. A Sleaford electrical retailer retiring last year, offered us some electrical appliance from the 1930's and 40's as he cleared through his workshop. Small parcels still arrive in the post, with the odd (unopened) tin of dried egg, or a photo of a wartime serviceman, killed in action  and now no longer with any relative left to remember him and keep his photograph. What we will do with these items when the house is relinquished we don't know. Some of the items we can keep in school for the children to study, but the house at No. 4 Baghdad Road, Cranwell is full of fascinating items that are real museum pieces for our children today. For the latest information on opening arrangements for the 'Home Front House Museum' at 4 Baghdad Road, Cranwell, during the school Summer Term 1999, please contact the school on #44 01400 261271 for details. Parties may visit the house at other times if pre-booked with the school. and of course, now you can visit the house courtesy of

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