Hartlepool Remembers: 80 Years of Freedom & Family Fun

Exciting Family Fun Day coming soon to Heugh Battery Museum, Headland.

Past meets present - a day for all ages to get together and celebrate the 80th Anniversary of the end of the Second World War. Babies to seniors, grandparents to grandchildren - all welcomed to an intergenerational celebration📣

Hartlepool Remembers: 80 Years of Freedom & Family Fun. Wednesday 29 October (Half-Term) | 10.30am - 12.30pm and 1pm - 3pm.

Activities include: 🎨 Face painting 🪖 War Re-enactments 🏺 Ceramics and pottery 🕵️‍♀️ Find out more about your historic memorabilia. Bring it along and have our experts take a look ✍️ Poetry 🎥 A chance to tell us all about your wartime stories or memories so they aren't lost in the past And so much more! 🎬

Tickets must be booked. Visit www.hartlepool.gov.uk/communityhubs or drop in to any of your local community hubs/libraries.

This event is brought to you free of charge, with a big thank you to "Our Freedom: Then and Now", a new programme of community-based events in libraries across the UK to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. Come along and explore what freedom means to you, then and now. 🕊🌍✨

Faces Galore Children's Party Packages Louise Robinson Ceramics John Sadler's Time Bandits Hartlepool Borough Council Heugh Battery Museum 11th Panzer Division Living History Group Pinnacle Peak Photography In The Frame Irose Designs, Hartlepool Armed Forces & Veterans Breakfast Club, Reel Good Films

Photo credit: John Sadler’s Time Bandits

29 October 2025 10.30AM to 12.30PM 1PM to 3PM