Chorley Remembers Experience to close for refurbishment

The popular Chorley Remembers Experience exhibition in the Coach House on the Astley Hall complex in Chorley is to close for a five days from Monday 11th August to enable it to be refurbished and new displays and artefacts added.

The popular WW1 trench experience will see additional items, whilst glass display cabinets and drawers will feature new WW1 artefacts donated to the project over the last 12 months.

The exhibition will re-open at 11.00 am on on Sunday 17th August as part of the WW1 Day event which is happening on that day.

Opened in June 2013, the exhibition attracted over 17,000 visitors in its first year of opening.

Some of the World War 1 artefacts that will be added to the Chorley Remembers Experience exhibition

Some of the World War 1 artefacts that will be added to the Chorley Remembers Experience exhibition