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SALUTE!

Where

Purfleet heritage and Military Centre, The Green, Purfleet-on-Thames, RM19 1QA

What

Community Events

When

17 Aug 2025

UNTIL Sunday 17 August

SALUTE!

SALUTE! 2025 – WW2 80th ANNIVERSARY

10am-5pm SUNDAY 17th AUGUST 2025

PURFLEET HERITAGE & HERITAGE CENTRE | THE GREEN, PURFLEET-ON-THAMES

Magazine No.5, Centurion Way, Purfleet-on-Thames, Essex RM19 1ZZ

SALUTE! is ostensibly the only WW2 80th festival marking the end of WW2 with a diversity edge. It is a free festival organised by Purfleet Heritage and Military Centre. The Centre is a 1760s Grade 1 listed building and Britain's royal gunpowder magazine for 200 years.

This inaugural festival incorporates the rich and colourful Gurkha Festival and vintage vehicle display, including a Gurkha ambulance.

In partnership with Film Thurrock, there will be a large outdoor cinema, screening shorts featuring different communities specially produced for SALUTE! They will reflect the internationalism of peoples from the Empire that joined forces with the Allies. There will be shorts about the Gurkhas featuring the only Gurkha Memorial in Essex in the Centre grounds; the D-Day Chinese; Caribbeans Beyond Windrush and an evocative film of found WW2 images. The Dam Busters is the popular people's feature choice as there were extras in it that are related to the local community.

A grand finale of the biggest WW2 singalong songs in Thurrock brings the day to a close.

With support of the BFI Film Audience Network, awarding funds from the National Lottery in order to bring this project to more audiences across the UK.

Website | https://purfleet-hmc.org/events

More Info | https://filmthurrock.uk/salute-2025

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