September & October 2026
Our next open days are Sunday 6th September 2-4 pm and Sunday 4th October 2-4 pm. The Exhibition will be "Little Barford Village and the Alington Family" with a variety of papers, paintings, photographs and other ephemera on show, some never seen before. Also on show will be items associated with Tempsford Village and RAF Tempsford. Also the Bedfordshire Gardens Trust will be coming along to put on a display about the impact of changing landscapes on some of Bedfordshires Estate gardens, including the walled garden at Tempsford Hall.
RAF Tempsford
Many of Our Visitors and Supporters have a Particular interest in RAF Tempsford.
This may be Because of Family Connection to someone who served, Or through a Military or Historical Interest.
If You have an Question Related specifically to RAF Tempsford Please submit Your Enquiry Here by clicking on the Roundel Above
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Our Story
Tempsford Museum and Archive opened in July 2013. It houses a vast collection of memorabilia, artefacts, deeds, estate maps, newspaper articles, family papers, photographs, books and letters associated with the village of Tempsford, collected over more than 20 years by local amateur historian, Steve Cooney.
This combined with family papers and artefacts owned by the Gosling family whom have been in the village for over 400 years, means we have an extensive historical collection.
Together Steve Cooney and Carole Gosling came up with the idea that the collection needed to be entrusted to a group
of trustees to look after it for the long term future,
and so the Museum and Archive was born