Military Wireless Museum .... Visiting


Museum is now closed for group visits till 2024 but still open for individuals. Visits are welcome but by appointment only, please see the bottom of the page.



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In 2011 the museum moved to a new building, with more display space. Big job though, it took four weeks just to move the sets then months getting things straight. Anyway, a few pics of the move. First, the gear just piled up, then the first racking goes in.


LEFT: The first visitor to the new site, Dave Prince, VK4KDP, from Australia, holidaying in the UK with his family. It was very nice to meet someone whom we have had many contacts with before, all via the wonders of the web though.
RIGHT: Another visitor from down under, Tony Bell, Militaria Display & Signals Manager of the National Military Vehicle Museum (NMVM) South Australia, who paid a visit during his 2018 tour of the UK.

Tony visited again this year, 2023, and looked just as good, hi hi.


The museum was pleased to welome two old friends from Japan, Mr T. Matsuura, JJ6SGL, and Mr I. Fujimura, JA4VDA, to the collection recently. They were of course, most interested in the Japanese radios the collection has. Pictured below (left) with the Japanese sets behind.

Steve, W8SAW / G4DFN, pays a most interesting visit to the museum. Pictured right. Many thanks Steve.

Recent visit by retired members of the TA Special Communications Regiment. Nice to have you here.


The museum was exceedingly glad to recently welcome Bletchley Park veteran, Ms 'Betty' Webb, who served there during WW2 working on the Japanese traffic.
Pictured below, left to right, Gloria, Betty, Ben and Peter,G8CQH.


Fantastic day at the Military Wireless Musem with the visit of Dr Mark ‘Enigma’ Baldwin. He is an international expert and professional speaker on the Enigma Machine, the History of Cryptography, and the Special Operations Executive, and has delivered more than 700 talks to over 60,000 people on these topics, all over the world. It was fantastic to get so close with "hands on" a real machine. The museum thanks Mark for his visit. https://drenigma.org/




The museum welcomed John, DL9QQ/5P9QQ, who kindly dontated a nice FuG7A German Police and Military use radio to the museum along with several other interesting items.

A Swedish visit now, Kent SM5LQL(right) and two friends poped in on their recent trip to the UK.

Recent filming by Woodcut Media for an upcomming TV program. More later.
Up goes the HF doublet, 135ft long, fed with 450 ohm feeder, the actual ground at the far end rises and, using a 20ft mast gives its a good height, the middle is using one of the military push up and lock masts with the cold end up on the house eves. Good enough for JA on 20Mtrs.

.......................................................................................................An omen?, King of the Gods Jupiter and Venus above the museum, March 2012.

After a little bit of sorting things start to make sense...........









Adolf had his Atlantic wall, The museum has its Eddystone wall.

The birth................................................growing.............................................growing....................

completed..........................


and a little later it now looks like this.....................






The collection has already been used in various TV productions, STV's production of Dr Finlay, the CH4 documentry 'Station X' about Bletchley Park and the Code Breakers and most recently in the film documentary "For Your Tomorrow", the story of the forgotten Burma Army and its terrible jungle fight. See: www.foryourtomorrow.com for more details.

The collection is available for use in tv and film production by arrangement, please contact me for further information.


More Space Needed !

As the museum fills up more space is needed. Luckily, there was a plot behind the museum, so it was flattened, a base put down and the buildings now up and being prepared.






My thanks must go to Gloria, Ashley Roberts and Sarah Leonie for the exceptional help given during the moving and setting up periods for without said help the process wouldn't have been possible.
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The Military Wireless Museum is now open for group visits. Individuals can still be accommodated.
Booking through the usual channels, see website.
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Museum Opening Times
In general there are no 'fixed' opening times. We are able to welcome visitors at nearly anytime.
Please contact us with the date/time you would like to call and we will be happy to throw open the doors.
In the unlikely event we are otherwise engaged we hope you will be able to re-schedule your planned visit.

Contact Ben on 01562 743253
or email at: [email protected]
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TICKETS £5
opening times on request.
Many thanks.

To Contact me, please send an e-mail to: Ben Nock, G4BXD



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