Reculver

ARC are proud to announce the completion of the interpretive displays and signage for the Reculver Sustainability Centre. The new centre is now fully completed and open to the public. The new education room shown here with the sweet chestnut cladding is proving to be a great facility for local school groups.

Early history interpretation area

Mural with WWII history, wind farm info and 'Bigus Dickus' !

Education room

The team at ARC had a completely blank canvas with the new room and we got started with the murals which went right around the room, depicting the coastal erosion, World War II gun towers and Roman history. Once the base mural was complete the other painted features were created and fixed into position.

New shop area

The crab!

Meanwhile the rest of the team got stuck into the new shop area. All the timber used was locally sourced sweet chestnut from woods in Kent. We topped off the central section of the shop with our giant carved crab staring down menacingly at all the visitors. All the lettering had to be hand-carved and painted on-site and we felt it all added to the tactile aspect of the area.

Phil in full painting mode

Tom concentrating on a daisy

John and Jenny painting the coastal erosion area

The main room now houses all the new interpretation panels and interactive exhibits including a model of the bouncing bomb. This replica holds a screen inside showing archival film from the Imperial War Museum of the test runs made in the region by the bomber pilots. Further along we come to ‘Marcus’ the Roman legionnaire. We wanted to call him Bigus Dickus as we are all huge Monty Python fans here. His story is told using a wind-up audio unit mounted in his shield (and not in his nether regions as someone cheekily suggested).

Marcus the Legionnaire

Wind-up audio

Bouncing bomb movie

Outside work continued with the building of the new entrance signs. These were also in chestnut with stainless steel lettering.

The new entrance signs

Tom fitting lettering