Chair of the King’s Own Royal (Lancaster) Regiment Museum Trust, Robin Ashcroft, commented: “This funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund is tremendous news for both ourselves and for our home and host – the City Museum. It will allow us to tell the story of, arguably, the most important year of the war through the eyes of not just the regiment’s soldiers, but also from the perspective of their families and communities back home in Lancaster. At a time when we’re all having to face uncertainty ourselves, with the pandemic and war clouds over Eastern Europe, we can all relate to the uncertainties our forebears went through eighty years ago.”
Located in the ground floor special exhibition gallery it will run along with a series of events throughout Lancaster and the surrounding area, along with a dedicated heritage trail.
The Hinge of Fate: Living with Uncertainty in 1942 will run from September 2022 to February 2023 – in parallel with the King’s Own Royal (Lancaster) Regiment Museum’s permanent gallery – in the Special Exhibition Gallery of The City Museum, Market Square, Lancaster.
