Midlands Region News

ALL THE LATEST NEWS AND ACTIVITIES FROM THE MIDLANDS REGION

Statfold Barn Railway, Tamworth, Saturday September 23rd, 2023

It was a bright autumn morning when we arrived at Statfold Barn. The site had ‘something for all the family’: rope slides, adventure play areas for the kids, a miniature ride-on railway, a fine collection of vintage buses and traction engines, and what we came for… an excellent collection of narrowgauge locomotives. After the usual … Read more

Newark Air Museum, Saturday August 19th, 2023

Newark Air Museum has a wealth of material to see both indoors and outdoors. The site is very well kept and presented and provides plenty of opportunities for experimentation: There were a number of examples of a more adventurous artistic approach being taken. Patrick Fleming, Friend

Hooton Park Trust, Saturday July 16th, 2023

On a characteristically blustery July Sunday, we were invited back to our latest find, the historic hangars in the care of the Hooton Park Trust. In a landscape dramatically changed over the last century; the former grand hall and estate of 18th C Hooton Park, falling into decline and becoming the site of an RFC … Read more