Events at the Heugh Battery Museum 2024

The museum welcomes you to all our events which help us to raise funds for the running costs and maintenance of the museum.

Event list for 2025 - more information for each event and more can be found below.

Show and Tell Sundays - selected Sundays throughout the year, talks at 11am and 2pm

Join us and many of our supporters and re-enactment groups for talks and displays of equipment from Mediaeval to Modern warfare.

Small displays will be available with lots opportunity to see and handle objects and hear about who used them and how.  The displays will be available during opening hours, with talks by volunteers at 11am and 2pm (lasting approx 40 mins).

Sunday 11th May     The Green Howards.    

A display which focuses on the 6th Battallion and their experience on D Day, including the story of Stan Hollis VC, the only man to be awarded the Victoria Cross on for the D Day action.  Stories also from 10th Battallion, which became a parachute batallion and won a battle honour at Breville on 12th June 1944.  Talks and display by Hawtin’s Historical Vignettes with Pete Hawtin.

Craft Fayre

Saturday 31st May 6pm - 8pm

Saturday 28th June 6pm - 8pm

Saturday 26th July 6pm - 8pm

Saturday 30th August 6pm - 8pm

Lots of beautiful hand-crafted items from a range of local artists, crafters and artisans. From crochet to coasters, scarves to soap – there is something for everyone!  Meet the makers and maybe sign up for a class and learn how to make something yourself!

Full list of participants to come.

Poppy Tea Rooms will be open for hot and cold drinks, cakes and snacks too!

Vanguard 13th Century Re-enactment Group

Saturday 26th April 10am - 3.30pm

Do you fancy yourself as a sword fighter?

Do you want to learn more about life in the 13th century?

Then, maybe, you would like to join Vanguard Medieval Re-enactment Group!

Vanguard will be here with a display of equipment to talk about life in the 13th century – and to recruit some new knights, ladies and squires!

Be brave!  Come along!

General Galtieri - My Part In His Downfall Pts1 & 2 - A Falklands War Story

THIS EVENT TAKES PLACE AT

HEADLAND BAPTIST CHAPEL, Baptist Street Hartlepool, TS24 0QN

Saturday 21st June 2025 at 1pm

Tickets £5 available from the museum or www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/hartlepool/headland-memorial-baptist-church

Is it really 43 years since the Falklands war?

This is the tale of the adventures of a 19-year-old from Hartlepool’s Headland, sent to the South Atlantic with the Royal Marines.

On Friday 2nd April 1982, Tony Green thought he was going home to Hartlepool on Easter leave.  Instead, three days later, he found himself beginning a 16,000 mile round trip odyssey to an unforgettable, life-changing experience.

Tony Green tells the story of how he, as a 19-year-old Marine in Four-Five Commando, Royal Marines, found himself in a phone box telling his mother he was off to war and the adventures that followed – including the journey down to the South Atlantic, being locked below decks at action-stations, the landings, his ring-side seat experience dug in at ‘Bomb Alley’ and the Battle of Two Sisters.

After the Argentine surrender, Tony came home on the Great White Whale – SS Canberra – to a totally unexpected but warm welcome.

Tony Green is giving this talk as part of the fundraising efforts to support the Heugh Battery Museum.

Doors open at 12.45pm

Part 1     1.15pm

Break     2pm

Part 2     2.20pm

End         3pm

Bombardment of the Hartlepools Commemoration

Tuesday 16th December 8.00am at the Redheugh Gardens, The Headland, Hartlepool

There will be a short service (approx 20 minutes) in the Redheugh Gardens at the war memorial to remember those who were lost and whose lives were changed forever by the devastating events of the 16th December 1914.

The names of all of the children and service personnel lost during the Bombardment will be read and crosses planted in their memory.  Members of the community are invited to take part by planting the small crosses around the memorial or laying a wreath.

The museum will be open for hot drinks from 7.30am.

The museum’s 25 pounder saluting gun will fire at 08.10am marking the beginning of the Bombardment.

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The Only First World War Battlefield in the UK

Open: Friday – Monday from 10am – 4pm
Heugh Battery Museum, Moor Terrace, Headland, Hartlepool, Cleveland, TS24 0PS
info@heughbattery.co.uk
01429 270746
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