Waterbeach Barracks Denny End Road Waterbeach
Cambridge
CB25 9PA

+44(0)1223861846

Did you know?

Waterbeach normally holds an annual ‘Feast’ on the green. This is an open day for the village societies, clubs, and organisations to show off their stalls, and for the public to have a great day out starting with a parade at 2pm.

 Fairground attractions are generally available, as well as refreshments and music.

Events

Often there are events that the Museum would like to draw to your attention, within the museum, in the near locality, and further afield.

HEADING TWO.

Events in the museum

Unveiled in the museum on Saturday 30th November 2024 by Station Commander of RAF Wyton, Wing Commander John Grenville

 THE RETURN - the carving

Iconic of so many crews returning to Waterbeach

Help us to save it for the museum

The Carving by Gordon Hayes, in Purbeck Pond free limestone, is 4x3 foot and named ‘The Return’ showing the Gordon Crew coming off their Lancaster Bomber, A for Able, on the 14th October 1944. Photographed by a Daily Express photographer, the crew were returning from a mission to bomb Duisburg.

The scene is iconic of many crews returning home and a is a memorial to them and the ones who did not return to Waterbeach (both RAF and RE) over the years since 1942 when there had been an RAF Staton and Royal Engineers Barracks.

The museum Trustees feel its rightful home is here in Waterbeach and needs to be retained having returned. This Carving is on loan for eighteen months but the Museum is fund raising to purchase it by the end of that time. We need to raise £13,000. Can you help? If so, please donate by using either the QR Code or by bank transfer

Rules permitting, we will resume normal regular opening on the first Wednesday and Sunday of the months
March to October 2021

Sort Code: 60-04-41, Account No. 12706574, Ref: TRC

Donations welcome.

Other openings by arrangement .

Events in the village and its locality

Events in the village and its locality