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Get in touch with your past - Island at War Free

Thursday 28 2.00pmAugust
2014

Community

Museum of Island History

Guildhall
High Street
Newport
PO30 1TY

01983 823433

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Get in touch with your past - Island at War Free

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Island at War 1914-1918

Thursday 28 August at the Museum of Island History, Guildhall, High St, Newport

2.00 - 4.00pm

Free entry to the museum.

Come and meet Heritage staff and learn about the Island during the First World War.

Handle original artefacts - trench art, shrapnel, an officer’s belt and a Queen Mary tin. Try on replica uniforms (adult and children sizes) and see 3D stereoscopic postcards of wartime scenes.

For more information please contact Heritage Education Service - [email protected] or 523112