RAF Elsham Wolds Memorial Rooms
Small museum and memorial garden on the former RAF Elsham Wolds airfield, with artefacts, models and photographs of the station and its squadrons.
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About the museum
RAF Elsham Wolds was an airfield in North Lincolnshire that opened in 1941 and is remembered above all for 103 and 576 Squadron. Today the area is mostly an industrial estate, but the memory of the station is kept alive by the RAF Elsham Wolds Association.
The Memorial Rooms are in a building belonging to Anglian Water at the south-west corner of the former airfield. Honours boards and plaques for the two squadrons line the entrance lobby. The museum opened around 2001 in a single room off the foyer and was extended into a neighbouring office about five years later. It shows a wide selection of artefacts, models and photographs about the airfield and RAF life in the Second World War.
Outside is a quiet memorial garden centred on the RAF Elsham Wolds memorial cairn, which was renovated in 2019. Plaques there include one for Operation Manna, which dropped food to the starving civilian population of the Netherlands in 1945.
Key themes
- Artefacts, models and photographs of RAF Elsham Wolds
- Honours boards for 103 and 576 Squadrons
- Memorial garden with the renovated memorial cairn
- Plaque for Operation Manna, the 1945 food drops over the Netherlands
Permanent exhibition
- Memorial Rooms collection – Artefacts, models and photographs about RAF Elsham Wolds and RAF life in the Second World War, with honours boards for 103 and 576 Squadrons.
- Founded
- 2000
- Operated by
- RAF Elsham Wolds Association
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Getting there & parking
The Memorial Room is off Middlegate Lane (DN20 0PH). The postcode shown on the website map marks the former airfield rather than the entrance. The association names Barnetby-le-Wold, which has a railway station, as the closest place with accommodation, and suggests local taxi firms for onward travel.
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