1. The Dambusters Grantham 70th Anniversary display
at Grantham Museum
by thepaulturner | on May 18, 2013
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With the Dambusters 70th anniversary there has been a lot of interest and press coverage. There
has been a lot going on down in Kent, but people seem to largely forget the role that Grantham
played in the Dambusters operation.
Our local museum has an exhibition running at the moment with some interesting artefacts and I
went along tosday to have a look. I have taken some photos and I hope you find them as
interesting as I did.

2. How very British! This is a tea maker beleived to have been used by Guy Gibson himself. No
doubt he could have done with something a bit stronger at times but us Brits get by on tea at times
of crisis!
This is a piece of one of the dams they destroyed.
This is an original Dambusters flight helmet – communication was key and the micrphone is still
with the helmet.

3. This is one of the speakers taken from the operations room at St Vincents Road in Grantham.
News of the opertation was broadcast over this speaker!
This is a piece of one of the Lancaster bombers that was shot down that night.

4. Knowing that you had been hit you had to get out of the Lancaster bomber quickly 0 and here is
an escape hatch

5. A piece of an actual bouncing bomb! It is rusty now but this is a real part of history.
And here is how it would be situated – they have made an actual size housing with a cut away so
to see where this bit fitted – the scale of the thing is huge – larger than I thought.

6. No display would be complate without a model of one of the Lancaster Bombers of course and
some info on Barnes Wallace - the brains behind the bouncing bomb.
I hope you enjoyed the pictures. The Dambsuters played a pivitol part in the war effort and it’s
nice to think my home town had a part to play in that.
Here is the building that housed the operations room – its now a private residence.