Explore the Exhibition

If you can’t make it to our exhibition, here are some tour highlights:

Costumes from the Costume and Textiles Collection, Norwich Museums

Loans from Norfolk & Suffolk Aviation Museum, including a First World War pilot seat

Sectioned Full Hull Model of E.29 Submarine, launched in 1915, Imperial War Museum

Poncho and tank mask worn by Philip Hamond DSO

Industry case featuring a model of the Short 184 Type B seaplane built by Mann Egerton and Co of Norwich, Imperial War Museum.

Women’s Land Army uniform from Lynn Museum

Posters reproduced from the Picture Norfolk collection

The mural by Nick Stone depicts Armistice Day 1923, at the Norfolk Regiment Memorial Cottages, Norwich and is made up of photographs of most of the Great War memorials around the county

Home and children section

Dinner plate graphic featuring ration cards

Hospital section featuring the banner was created and presented to Norwich Cathedral in celebration of the work done by the British Red Cross and the Order of St John of Jerusalem during the War and Edith Cavell’s tea gown (private loan).

 

Trades union banner of the National Union of General and Municipal Workers, Costume and Textiles Collection, Norwich Museums

Commemoration section – Papaver Rhoeas by Paddy Hartley

Photographs courtesy of David Kirkham.