Comments on: Brooklands Museum

By: michael norman

michael norman — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 20:37:48 +0000

Have visited Brooklands for the first time since I was at end of war chidrens party age 5, in 1945 at Vickers Aircraft factory. My Mother and Farther met at Vickers and married at which Mum had to leave Vickers as married women were not allowed to stay. Had a great day.

By: Suzie griffith

Suzie griffith — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:30:44 +0000

Just seen your website but visited there in April 2009 whilst visiting from Australia with my 2 young boys. Their mouths remained open as did their eyes every place we went! The staff in the hangers told them so many stories and let them touch and feel the planes. The race track and the concorde and all the old passenger planes…..They absolutely loved the whole experience and still talk about it 2 years later! There could not be a better place to take boys of any age. Would absolutely thoroughly recommend this. It is a whiole day out and well worth it.

By: Julian Temple

Julian Temple — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 16:58:01 +0000

Supermarine Swift WK198 (fuselage only – ex World Air Speed Record holder when flown by Mike Lithgow in 1953) arrived on 3rd Feb 2011 on loan from Unimetal Industries Ltd. Please note that due to space constraints not all of our aircraft exhibits are always on display – for example none of the gliders, the 2008 Avroplane replica and the White Monoplane are all currently dismantled and stored.

Please note that I am now the Museum’s General Manager (not Curator of Aviation any more).

Finally, I note that most of the pictures you use of our exhibits are very old and out of date – please let me know if you would like me to email some new ones.

We ARE open on Good Fridays and

By: Heathbridge

Heathbridge — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 22:14:19 +0000

As a frequent visitor to Brooklands myself, I can assure you that these comments are a travesty of the real situation. Hangars are never ‘closed due to staff manning the pay for Concorde exhibit’. In April, there was a change of caterers and the tea room was temporarily closed for a major ‘make-over’, a fact that was made clear to all visitors when I was there. Brooklands had to pay out almost £500,000 to transport and re-build the Concorde and, as it receives no grants, it has to recover this cost from visitors. Believe me, it is worth every penny of the £4 that it costs for the 35 minute experience. I have yet to meet any other visitor who was dissatisfied or less than very enthusiastic.

By: John

John — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:00:16 +0000

Very dissapointing visit. After travelling 50 miles, paying for entrance to see Concorde we were then asked for more money if we actually wanted to see inside. One of the hangars were closed (due to staff manning the pay for concorde exhibit) and if it had not been for the Wellington, there would have been little interest. We had to sit in a drafty cold tent for lunch at Exhibition prices.