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January 2, 2022 By Richard

Open for fun this week

If the children or grandchildren are still off school or the in-laws haven’t gone home yet, or just if you want to have some fun, the Heritage Centre is open as usual from Tuesday to Saturday this week.  Youngsters love dressing up (a Roman centurion, anyone?) and building bridges out of Duplo (a buding Brunel?).  For bigger people our Spitfire Simulator Experience is available every day – there are plenty of sessions available tomorrow Tuesday or Wednesday and Friday, and on Thursday afternoon.  You can book online at https://maidenheadheritage.org.uk/spitfire-simulator/ or take a risk and just turn up and take off!

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December 27, 2021 By Richard

Spitfire Simulator flights available this week

Our Spitfire Simulator Experience is just the thing to entertain the family between Christmas and New Year.  Sessions are still available on Wednesday 29th December between 10am and 1pm, on Thursday 30th anytime between 11am and 4pm, and on New Year’s Eve (Friday 31st) between 10am and 12 noon, and between 1pm and 4pm.  To book online click here https://maidenheadheritage.org.uk/spitfire-simulator/

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December 20, 2021 By Richard

Christmas and New Year opening times

Our opening times for Christmas and New Year will be:

CLOSED from 23-28 December inclusive

OPEN 29, 30 and 31 December from 10am to 4pm

CLOSED 1-3 January 2022

OPEN 4-8 January from 10am to 4pm

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November 29, 2021 By Richard

Middle-earth comes to Bray

The iconic Bray Studios, which have just received planning consent for new sound stages and ancillary buildings, will be one of the locations for Amazon Studios’ new £700m Lord of the Rings series which begins shooting next year.  Bovingdon Airfield near Berkhamstead will also be used.  Bray Studios has 54,000 sq.ft of stages and a 183,000 sq.ft back lot with a huge open air stage. Photos below.

Bray Studios from the air
Outdoor stage on the backlot at Bray

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New studios are also planned at Marlow, Shinfield, Farnborough and Broxbourne (Herts).  The exisdting studios at Shepperton are also being expanded.  However it seems that the UK does not have enough film equipment or trained crew to supply this boom, created by the appetite for high-quality drama and films among subscribers to Amazon, Netflix, Disney and Apple.

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August 24, 2017 By Richard

Award for Heritage Centre

We are proud to announce that we have received a 2017 Certificate of Excellence from the worldwide travel website TripAdvisor.   The Centre has been making a great effort to attract visitors from outside the Maidenhead area, especially some of the huge number of tourists who already come to Windsor, so the reviews that visitors post on TripAdvisor are really valuable to us.  At the same time, figures released by Tourism South East show that Maidenhead Heritage Centre attracted 8% more visitors  in 2016 than in 2015 figure, against an average for other museums and venues in the region of just 2%.  The TripAdvisor award is a tribute to our wonderful volunteer team who make people so welcome and help them get the most from their visit.

Please come and see for yourself!

 

 

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