The Home Front Bus has been intriguing Canterbury residents ever since it’s been set up on High Street. The bus gives a tour of the 1940’s lifestyle in the UK.
The Home Front Bus has got on display detailed reconstructions of a 1940’s living room, a shop, a street destroyed by bombs and an air raid shelter, each containing period features and artefacts similar to the sights and sounds during World War 2. It is meant to educate young children of the experience that their grandparents had during the war and aims to do it in an exciting way.
Organisers Norman Burnett and Eddie Chambers claim the bus aspires “to fully utilise the Home Front Bus by making this unique resource available to schools and the general public and to employ people in period costumes to bring the displays to life, some of whom experienced the trauma of those times first hand.”
Visitors, young and old, seemed thrilled by the experience. Every aspect has been taken care of, from the costume of the salesman in the shop to the ticket, the conductor hands you when you enter the bus. Anna, who was barely 12 when her town was bombed, said: “A bomb fell right outside my house, so I am lucky to be alive. I think they (the Home Front Bus) are doing a wonderful job, teaching young ones about that time. It should help them value life more.”
Watch the video below to see how the tour went
Watch the video below to see how the tour went
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