Film star Eddie Izzard to open amazing war-time rail layout at Bexhill Museum in memory of his father

Bexhill Museum patron and international film star Eddie Izzard will realise a dream on Monday September 16 when he opens a giant model rail layout in the museum dedicated to the memory of his father.

By The Newsroom

Published 12th Sep 2019, 11:52 GMT

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Rail modelling enthusiasts led by museum volunteer Ken Bywater have been toiling for two years to create a scene symbolic of the Bexhill that Eddie’s late father Harold John Izzard would have experienced when as a war-time evacuee he returned to the town for Christmas 1940.

The museum’s Egerton Park Gallery is given over to displays commemorating the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of war in 1939.

They include the giant wall map on which local estate agent Percy Webber logged every bomb and incendiary that dropped on the town. An alcove has been decked out as an air-raid shelter.