The Home Front Museum was one of two musuems in Llandudno that we’d considered visiting on our last trip but ran out of time so I made sure to fit them both in this time round. Opened in 2000 in a building that had been requisitioned during the Second World War by the Auxiliary Fire Service from a garage run by a Frank Meredith and his sons, it houses a collection of artefacts highlighting life on the home front during the Second World War with a partiulcar focus on life in Llandudno.
The museum isn’t very large and in fact is a bit cramped but it is absolutely chock full of items crammed into every possible available space including recreations of shop fronts and home interiors. The adult entrance fee at the time of my visit was £4.20 and it took me roughly an hour or so to go around.
There is an easy self-guided route around the museum, looping back to the entrance. It wasn’t very busy when I was there, a handful of other people, but even that did result in a bit of a gridlock near the very end. It is a very impressive collection and even though I took my time I’m sure I missed some details just because there’s so much on offer.
It’s a really interesting place to visit particularly if you want a local Welsh history perspective on the impact of WWII.
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