Events and exhibitions
Thurrock Museum Volunteers hold regular free exhibitions on aspects of local history. Exhibitions take place in the ground floor gallery of the Thameside Complex.
Exhibitions in 2019
| Dates | Events |
|---|---|
| Monday 14 January to 11am, Friday 1 February |
Images of war. Posters, poetry, letters, art and photography from World War I. |
| Monday 8 April to 11am, Friday 26 April |
The interwar years. Thurrock and Great Britain between the wars. |
| Monday 24 June to 11am, Friday 5 July |
Peace – making a new Europe. The treaty of Versailles and Europe after World War I. |
| Thursday 11 July to midday, Thursday 18 July |
Great War commemorations revisited. Display of artworks and images from the Great War commemorations last November |
| Monday 22 July to 11am, Friday 9 August |
World War II memories of Thurrock. Looking back to the second world war. |
| Monday 2 September to 11am, Friday 20 September |
Remember World War II. Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of war – Thurrock memories. |
| Monday 14 October to 11am, Friday 1 November |
The phoney war. The early months of World War II. |
| Monday 9 December to 11am, Friday 27 December |
The first Christmas. Christmas 1939 – the first of World War II. |