Battle stations in Devizes (From This Is Wiltshire)

Battle stations in Devizes

12:00am Friday 6th November 2009 in

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Children experienced what life was like during the Second World War at an event at Wiltshire Heritage Museum in Devizes.

More than 250 people attended a family fun day at the museum on Sunday.

Museum director David Dawson said: “It was a fantastic success. There was a great age range of visitors. There were children who were there with their grandparents.

“Some of the older visitors had their own stories to tell about the Second World War.”

A mock Anderson air raid shelter was built which children went inside. The youngsters also made toy aeroplanes and peg dolls and had a go at pumping water.

The Atwell Wilson Motor Museum at Calne provided a 1931 Singer car while people re-enacted war time roles such as a policeman, a Land Army girls and an air raid warden, played by local historian John Girvan.

A five-month exhibition about the Second World War opens at the museum this weekend.