COMEDIAN and actor Eddie Izzard will return to his home town to open a museum’s new model railway as a memorial and tribute to his late father.
Eddie, 56, will unveil the railway at Bexhill Museum at 4pm on Friday.
The rail layout depicts Bexhill as Eddie’s father, Harold, would have remembered it over the snowy Christmas of December 1940. The 15ft by 7ft layout will form the centre-piece of the museum’s new Second World War II exhibition which is being created in readiness for the 80th anniversary next year of the outbreak of war.
Sidley-born Harold worked tirelessly for charities around Sidley and Bexhill throughout his life before his sad death aged 90 earlier this year.
The new ‘N’ gauge model railway represents Bexhill and Sidley during one of the area’s hardest winters.
Supported and designed by Eddie, who is a patron of the museum, the layout has been built by members of the Bexhill Model Railway Enthusiasts.
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