Become a time traveller this half term as Flambards in Helston opens its undercover exhibitions from next Tuesday until Thursday February 14-16.

Enjoy authentic history and heritage as you begin your adventure through Britain’s beguiling past. Discover Britain in the Blitz, The War Gallery and Aviation Experience and an entire Victorian Village.

Step back in time to the 1800s and the reign of Queen Victoria into the unique Victorian Village.

With an atmosphere of bustling streets and alleyways, hidden nooks and crannies, the village is an incredible all round sensory experience – think sights, smells and real cobble stone roads.

Wander through the life-size village and discover over 50 scenes. Gaze through shop windows, step inside the local pub, visit the green grocers, ironmongers, butchers, shoemakers and even the apothecary – everything from a schoolroom and blacksmiths to the fire station is authentically recreated with thousands of genuine artefacts.

Discover the world of William White, a pharmacist who lived and worked in Somerset. When he died in 1909, the shop was boarded up by his son who wasn’t qualified to dispense drugs, the shop remained untouched for more than 80 years. The walls are lined with medicine bottles, apothecary jars, quartz carboys, demijohns, pill dispensers and mortars and pestles. This whole shop was carefully installed to Flambards as it was – lock, stock and cobweb.

The Britain in the Blitz exhibition is a life-size re-creation of daily life during the war. Hear the air raid sirens and literally feel the floor shake as another bomb hits its target. A visit will illustrate what life was like on the Home Front. Peep in to a wartime kitchen, a classroom and an evocative railway platform scene showing children evacuating. There are a series of fascinating letters to home sent from children evacuated to Cornwall in order to escape the threat of bombs.