Museum event recreates the sights and sounds of 1940s

Attractions included a George Formby tribute act, wartime-themed Home Front activities and a Radiolympia music show.

Niki Connolly, events and marketing officer for Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust, which runs Kelham Island Museum, said: We had a wonderful vintage market with lots of retro stalls, wartime recipes being served at the Furnace Cafe and street entertainers getting up to mischief and performing stunts around the site.”

Visitors were encouraged to wear 1940s-inspired clothes, and many guests got into the spirit of the day with fancy dress.

The Wakes weekends event was organised in partnership with the National Fairground Archive, which has an exhibition at the museum telling the story of travelling fairgrounds and entertainers that were so popular at the time.

The nostalgic photographic display aims to bring to life how families spent their holidays enjoying traditional fun at the circus, seaside and fair.

Visitors could also see Kelahm Island Museum’s other famous attractions, including the mighty River Don engine which rolled armour for warships, tanks and Spitfires during the war, and a 22,000lbs Grand Slam bomb.