Black Country Living Museum 1940's Weekend
Black Country Living Museum 1940's Weekend
Sunday 17th July
Adult £39.50pp
Concession £37pp
Child £30pp
Pickup points A B C D E F
Black Country Living Museum is a remarkable place to explore, enjoy and spend time. Set in a landscape of 26 acres, it is one of the most extraordinary open-air museums in the UK; offering a glimpse into 300 years of history like no other. For one weekend a year they transform the Museum with vintage vehicles, 40s civilians, and military personnel to bring the home-front experience to life. Explore an electric wartime atmosphere of entertainment, nostalgia and fashion.
Itineray
Arrive 11am
Depart 4.30pm
Day trips Departures
Accessibility
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The Museum has a small number of manual wheelchairs (rated 18 stone/115 kilos weight). Advanced booking is required and will be allocated on a first come first served basis.
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Visitors are welcome and encouraged to bring their own wheelchair, or motorised scooter in order to get around the Museum. These ideally should be used along pedestrian routes, taking care to avoid collision and blocking paths. Please follow route markings. Please remember that BCLM is a 26 acre open air Museum site, so don’t forget to charge your scooter fully before arriving.
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The Museum has a vintage style vehicle, ‘Doris’ named after the mother of one of the original donors of the vehicle. Doris is the Museum’s accessibility vehicle, she has a tail lift to enable visitors in wheelchairs and those with mobility issues easy access. Doris is able to carry manual wheelchairs and pushchairs, but not motorised wheelchairs or mobility scooters.
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There are plenty of easily located adapted and accessible toilets located around the Museum. There is no need to bring a radar key with you on your visit, as the only toilet in need of a radar key is located at the Bottle and Glass Inn, where a key is available on request.
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Hobbs’ Fish and Chip Shop- This shop is on the Old Birmingham Road and is accessed from a pavement with a dropped kerb nearby.
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The Bottle & Glass Inn Outdoor Yard Bar- This outdoor seated area has an accessible toilet accessed with a radar key.
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Workers’ Institute Café- This café is accessible by a small step and wheelchair access is via a portable ramp to the right hand side of the building.
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Picnic and seating areas are located around the museum, and each picnic area will have accessible benches available.
Timetable
Our timetables are unique. Bookings are taken throughout the year, approx. one month prior to travel we release the balance reminders and your final itinerary, including your pickup times. This allows us to ensure our pickup routes are kept to a minimum and our days run exactly to time.
Commonly pickups start between 7.45am and 09.00am. We like to arrive at our destinations for approx. 11am. And commonly our departures from venues are between 4-5pm. Allowing us to return to our first drop off between 6-7pm.
Aylesbury/Begrove/Aston Clinton is new to 2022 – if there is a trip you are interested in that does not have these new stops listed, please do register your interest, as we grow this pickup route, we will look to add additional dates/coaches to accommodate requests.
Please note, occasionally we use a feeder coach along our pickup routes to accommodate booking requests and keep our main coach pickup route to a minimum.
Below is a list of pick-up points available on this tour.
Below is a list of pick-up points available on this tour.
| Name | Address | Contact Details |
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| Aston Clinton North | London Rd, bus stop opp side of The Bell Pub | |
| Aylesbury | Exchange Street Bus Stop, The White Hart | |
| Bedgrove | Bedgrove, Jansel Square | |
| Berkhamsted North | Berkhamsted High Street Bus stop near Natwest | |
| Cheddington North | Cheddington, The Green Same side as Red post box | |
| HH Bridge Street | Hemel Hempstead, Bridge Street. | |
| HH Park & Ride | Hemel Hempstead Gadebridge Park & Ride | |
| LB Greenfields North | Leighton Buzzard, Greenfields Billington Road Bus Stop (by Warren Close) | |
| LB Morrisons | Leighton Buzzard Morrisons, The Sun Bus Stop | |
| LB Tesco North | Bus stop opposite Tesco (near the Connells building, Lombard house) | |
| LB West Street North | Leighton Buzzard West Street Outside the British Legion | |
| NC Dars Lane North | Northchurch, Dars Lane Bus stop at bottom of Dars lane | |
| NC Durrants Lane North | Northchurch, Durrants Lane Same side as Durrants Lane | |
| Pitstone North | Pitstone, Marsworth Road Bus stop Bus stop Opp side of road to memorial hall park | |
| Tring, Newmill North | Tring, Newmill Bus stop Near Elizabeth Drive | |
| Tring, Petrol ST North | Tring Opp petrol station Bus stop at Bottom of Market Car park |
