The Museum of the British Resistance Organisation
The
Museum of the British Resistance Organisation is housed in associated
Quonset (Nissen) Huts adjacent to the 390th Bombardment Group Memorial
Air Museum Control tower at Parham Airfield, Suffolk.
Inside the museum exhibits include a unique and rare collection of exhibits, It is possible to see photographs of the officers and men of the Auxiliary Units, information of their weaponry and original examples of the time pencils, fuses and crimping mechanism of the explosives with which they were familiar.
Other displays include examples of dead-letter boxes and intelligence instruction dossiers employed by the Special Duties Section; and as far as possible practical details of the radio communications network installed by the Royal Corp of Signals.
In 2004 a replica Operational Base (OB) was officially opened by the Museum's patrons, Lord and Lady Ironside. The reconstruction of the under ground OB is based upon an example known to have been at Stratford St Andrew, Suffolk.
Visitors are able to tour this exhibit, it has been brought up to ground level for ease of access and landscaped over, you can appreciate the cramped and dismal conditions that the Auxiliers had to work in.
You can read more on the History of the Museum here
The full website of the Museum can be seen here
Coleshill House, Coleshill, Mabel Stranks, Highworth, Highworth Post Office, Colonel Gubbins, Auxiliary Units, Churchill's secret army, Special Operations Executive (SOE), Home Guard, The Countryman's Diary-1939, Peter Fleming, Ian Fleming, Pleydell-Bouveries, Sir Thomas Freake, Sir Henry Pratt, guerrilla warfare
