bovington re-furb

[Crispy]

Their website doesnt say but their tel number is : 01929 405096  or email to info@tankmuseum.org 

[Abo]

Yeah be interesting to know, gotta get me down there this spring, been promising myself for years now.

Went to Portsmouth dockyard for a great time last year, got tickets for the airshow at Fairford this year so its armours turn for a look in. Good job I have a long suffering wife who loves me.

[tiger205]

hi guys, the mrs has just rung bovvy', they say that all building work is complete, and all tanks are on display, the new cafe etc are open, and the new hall is due to be open at easter it will apparantly house the story of the tank, amongst other displays.

                    Tony

[Matdragon]

hey when we were on the bovvy meet we visited the museum, and i think me went to the new cafe, and it was ok

Matt

[tiger205]

yes ive been in the cafe myself not to bad, but did you see the big fat munter that worked there, i swear she must of eaten most of what was in the cafe

              Tony

[NigelDerEnglander]

Hi folks,

Tony is going to kill me for this.....but I went to Bovvy in late Nov/early Dec as I have the Tankfest 2008 year membership and can go for free till Summer 2009. Tony doesn't have that so I thought I'd better not put expensive temptation in his way!

The cafe was open and has no atmosphere or character about it (unlike the old Naafi-style hut) and the new hall was part finished with tanks in it, but display partitions not finished and it was blocked off so you could only see down to it from the balcony near the cafe.

The cafe was shockingly expensive. I only have to pay for myself, but if I had to pay for a wife and kids it would be an expensive day out! The relatively new Tamiya hall seemed empty and forgotten - though they hadn't removed the remains of the provisional cafe at that time.

I'm one of these people who likes old-fashioned things and doesn't like change so feel free to enjoy visiting there more than I did!

I will go again a few more times before my year of entry runs out, but I then shan't go again till the next TankFest (2010).

Still, the fact that the outdoor display area is half the size it was before, the cadets there were told to act like concentration camp guards and keep people from touching the new concrete barrier or walking on the path near the grassy viewing area, plus the fact that they have claimed 'copyright' over the Tiger's interior (!) so you can't photograph it, means that I may not darken their door for TankFest 2010 either!

Nige

[tiger205]

nige
        dont worry about it, i probably couldnt have gone then anyway, still we can arrange something in a few monthes, maybe take our tanks aswell, & see if they will let us bring them in for a photo shoot

            Tony

[Matdragon]

yes ive been in the cafe myself not to bad, but did you see the big fat munter that worked there, i swear she must of eaten most of what was in the cafe

               Tony

noy sure i remember her tony, personally, even if i did see her, the only thing i would remember from the visit was the tanks :p :p :p

[tiger205]

matt, if you had seen her you would of rembered, she was bigger than most of bovvy's tanks, she made the jagdpanther look like a dinky toy

              Tony

[Matdragon]

LOL