Bexhill 1940: Winter Wartime Model Railway | Bexhill Museum Eddie’s father, John Izzard, was evacuated from Bexhill at the outbreak of World War II aged just 12. He returned during the winter of 1940 to find the town blanketed in snow. Decades later Eddie paid tribute to John's wartime experience by designing and funding a marvellous re-creation of Bexhill as it was at that time. The N-gauge model even shows John, who sadly died before he could see the finished work, as the home-coming evacuee schoolboy outside the family home, 1 Laburnum Cottages, Ninfield Road, Sidley. Two years of work have since gone into the project with more modelling to recreate the town's seafront anti-invasion defences in 1940. The model includes landmarks such as the Town Hall, Bexhill Hospital, and Bexhill West station, later cut off from the national rail network on the recommendation of the 1963 Beeching Report. Long lost landmarks like the Egerton Park Lido and the Metropole Hotel are recreated, and there is a working model of Hoad’s Mill, a famous painting of which by L.S. Lowry now hangs in the Musuem’s Sargent Gallery. Visitors are given a presentation about the railway by one of our volunteers, covering all the fine details of this painstaking work. Videos : Bexhill 1940: Winter Wartime Model Railway | Bexhill Museum Bexhill Model Railway Club
