Living Museums is dedicated to history and heritage projects - created with and for young people
SPITFIRE OVER THE MIDLANDS
This film is a record of a project in which we looked at the impact of the Spitfire plane on people's lives. We worked with 175 young people across the Midlands.
The film includes Oral History interviews and dramatised scenes.
PROJECT EXHIBITION
Hundreds of people visited our Spitfire over the Midlands exhibition at the Guildhall, Worcester, in July 2023.
They encountered young people in role as people from WW2. Pilots... nurses... civilians... German POWs... They all had their personal stories to tell. There was even an appearance by Clark Gable...
VIP visitors included the Mayor of Worcester, Cllr Louis Stephen; Cllr Adrian Gregson; and the Honorable Robin Walker MP.
Report from The Worcester News
Photos of the event by Kate Green
Five groups of young people participated in the Spitfire project. They were based in Tudor Grange Academy, Worcester; Tudor Grange Academy, Redditch; Primary Academy Perdiswell; the Orchard Centre, Wolverhampton; and Holly Lodge School, Smethwick.
You can find out about some of the work we did, and the stories we discovered, on the following pages.
Just click on the images to follow the links
The story of Megan Rees, who helped to build Spitfires at Castle Bromwich
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The story of the "Wulfrun" Spitfire
The Perdiswell Spitfire
