Yeomanry Museum Re-Opening A Great Success!

On Saturday 9th August, coinciding with the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War the Warwickshire Yeomanry Museum re-opened it’s doors to the public after it’s renovation and refurbishment.

At 11am on Saturday morning the Mayor of Warwick, Moira Ann Granger and Warwickshire’ Lord Lieutenant Timothy Cox cut the blue ribbon and declared the museum open to the public.

With a wide variety of military and regimental displays, a drum and pipe band and many veterans and their families, the Court House and Pageant Gardens were alive with the memories and images of the Yeomanry and the First and Second World Wars.

BBC Midlands today covered the occasion and you can see their report at the official Yeomanry Museum website here.

You can also see the report on the BBC Coventry and Warwickshire website here.

Here are some pictures from the day……………..

Warwickshire Lord Lieutentant Timothy Cox and Warwick Mayor Moira Ann Granger open the Yeomanry Museum.
Warwickshire Lord Lieutentant Timothy Cox and Warwick Mayor Moira Ann Granger open the Yeomanry Museum.
Margaret Haycock, wife of founder of the museum, Colonel Michael Haycock, views a display in the museum.
Margaret Haycock, wife of founder of the museum, Colonel Michael Haycock, views a display in the museum.
Volunteer Terry Thompson in Pageant Gardens
Volunteer John Haycock in WW1 Warwickshire Yeomanry uniform in Pageant Gardens

 

 

Bryan Johnson, museum volunteer and veteran of the Second World War stands with photographic model of himself taken in the mid 1970's
Bryan Johnson, Honorary Secretary Warwickshire Yeomanry Museum Trust and veteran of the Second World War stands with photographic model of himself taken in the mid 1970’s