Members of Pensioners Parliament visit the Museum l-r: ?, Keith Cox, ?, Sarah Peacock and Gill Hollis of the museum team, ?, Jean Fowell, Richard Coleman, Eric Fowell, ?, ?.

The Exhibition includes a mock-up of a WWI trench along with real smells and artefacts typical of those found at the time. Supporting the experience of the trench is a very carefully investigated and impressive display of photographs, features and a presentation of artefacts from war era. Many months of hard work have been put in by the small team from the museum to launch the display and to make provision for further work to update the exhibition. The President, Mr John Harley formally opened the exhibition on 3rd May.

The Rushden Museum is located next to the public car park at the rear of Rushden Hall. The museum currently opens on Saturday and Sunday afternoons.

The Pensioners' Parliament Members are mainly of an age where their fathers and grandfathers have passed down their experiences of WW1 by word of mouth. There are also those who received very little information as their forefathers found conditions during the many battles so horrific they would not reveal them.

The exhibition is intended to show the harshness of battle conditions and record what effect WWI had upon Rushden and how the town was organised in the 1914 era.