The Royal Logistic Corps Museum

Two soldiers in civvies working in a very 1990s style British Forces Post Office. This was absolutely essential work to keep soliders connected to their families. The RLC take on this role today. Of particular interest is the British Forces version of the Post Office sign which is on display in the background.

New blog in honour of #WorldPostDay - bit.ly/4ocidsL

The British Army postal service - 600 years in the mailing 😎

Can't help but feel that the poor lion should be given a more dignified position...or maybe some warm pants 🩲

At the front of the museum is a big glass building which is the first thing visitors see on arrival. Our Collections Crew have put a concrete lion in there, temporarily, whilst they arrange his next move. This is fine. However, they have positioned the fella so that his bumhole (I'm sorry, there's no delicate way of phrasing that) is facing visitors. The first thing you see on visiting our museum, is a lion's bumhole. The photo is of said bumhole, proudly on display.

Might have a word with the Collections Team about how they store their recent acquisitions whilst waiting for conservation... (check the alt text for a detailed synopsis of this situation)

A museum display case with a model of Dougal the dog from the Magic Roundabout in it. For anyone who hasn't seen the fever dream that was the Magic Roundabout, Dougal is turbo cute and is basically a tube, with long, flowing, strawberry blonde hair, a big black nose and a red nose.

Love a hovercraft. Meet Dougal, on display in our museum because he was the mascot of 200 Hovercraft Squadron, Royal Corps of Transport. They adopted him because he glides along the ground, much like a hovercraft 😍

And whilst we're here - on #NationalSportingHeritageDay2025 we are delighted to announce that our next feature exhibition, which launches on Tuesday, will be 'From Front Lines to the Finish Lines: The RLC and its predecessors at the Olympic Games'. Plan a visit now - entrance is free ⚽

A blue and white advert for an event. The event is Sam Jolley's talk 'What does this lever do? ASC tank drivers in the Great War' The talk is being delivered at The Great War Group conference which is in Bristol from 17th to 19th October.

Our Collections Manager Sam is doing a thing at a place - get your tickets now 🎉

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Oh this looks really good ;)

The picture really has very little to do with the post but if you don't have a picture, no one will look. It shows our black Rolls Royce (Monty's Rolls from D-Day) on the grass outside the museum. Our WW2 DUKW is in a glass building in the background. We're put the Heritage Open Days bunting and branding on it. Sky is blue, grass is green, it's a fine photo.

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Just a load of ties. I have no idea why we have so many ties. They all have a meaning. On the left are RLC ones (RLC ties, RLC association ties, RLC officers club ties...) and then on the right are Royal Corps of Transport ties and out of shot are RASC, RAOC, RPC and ACC ties... honestly we have an actual tie guide book so we all know what we are looking at and what we are selling. It is awesome.

Need any ties? We gotchoo fam 😎

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A picture of our museum in which we look AWESOME. Like seriously very very cool. There are two, count them, two rainbows over the building, the sky is brooding, the sun is catching the badge on the museum and our iconic black box of a building looks super slay. Legit.

#Icon #Rainbow #That'sACrowNotAMarkOnTheCameraLens

A black and white photo of a tank and an elephant. The elephant has two riders, one in military uniform. At least four people in uniform are watching the elephant from the tank (which is behind the elephant) and other soldiers are watching in the background.

It's #InternationalElephantDay 🐘 This picture is in our digital archive without caption so I can only go by what I am seeing...but I assume this is a photo of a very slow race. My money is on the elephant.

🌞 This is a public service announcement from the RLC Museum 🌞

We have free entry and aircon.

That is all.

#FeelingHotHotHot #4thHeatwaveoftheYear #BritishSummer

A stone lion dog from Singapore or Malaysia on a green plinth. He has one paws raised.

A note detailing the donation of the stone dog to the museum, alongside other items.

A photograph of the stone lion dog before it was transferred to England. There are two in the photo - a matching pair - and they are looking at each other.

Congratulations to the #Lionesses ⚽ #Euro2025

Here's a #lion from our collections - donated when the Royal Army Ordnance Corps 221 Base Vehicle Depot closed in 1969.

Wonder what happened to his little friend?

A First World War steam powered tractor with caterpillar tracks that is in an unforunate predicament, having crashed into a ditch. This thing can roll over barges, but has buried itself nose deep. Several Army chaps are stood on or near it in poses suggesting that they are all mentally scratching their heads about how to a) explain and b) fix this one. It is a mess...much like our craft area. lol.

An artist's impression of what our children's craft area looks like after two full days of the #summerholiday 😂

We wouldn't have it any other way 😍

A yellow taxidermy dog in a museum display case. His nose looks...odd. Squashed in from the sides perhaps. It looks more like a pointy snoot with a black hole at the end, than a normal dog face.

Tinie? Are you alright pet? It's just that you appear to have lost your actual nose 😬

(Through a quirk of digital capture, if you hit the correct spot on our virtual tour...our dog looks proper weird. Promise, in real life, he's super cute. Visit the tour here - rlcmuseum.com/visit/virtua...)

*shudders* the horror

A poster advertising Thursday night talks at the RLC Museum. The talks are about military history and are held once a month. 11th September - Vice Admiral Peter Wilkinson CB, CVO, on The Battle of Jutland. 16th October - Lieutenant Colonel Derek Armitage AMA on the Battle of Rorke’s Drift. 13th November- Lieutenant Colonel Mike Tickner on Victory in Burma. 4th December - Lieutenant Colonel Chris Barrington Brown on the Logistic build up to D-Day

We're doing a thing! Tickets are on sale via our website now for a BRILLIANT series of #military #history talks held this #autumn in the #museum.

Please hop over to @barnsleymuseums.bsky.social and set them an #emojiday challenge

Oh Barnsley, you've set yourself a challenge!

Have you got anything in your collection...that looks like.... this 👧?

*braces self for impact and apologises to everyone not yet familiar with how creepy Barnsley is*

Gawjus

😂

You can almost hear the engine straining, can't you?

An army landrover in some very heavy terrain, travelling uphill and looking a bit like it is having a hard time and/or is completely stuck. It has L plates and we know exactly how the driver feels.

Just us trying to get through a #Wednesday 😎😂

A museum display in the centre of which is a real old school 8 inch floppy disc. I am old enough to remember these and now I feel bad. Please don't tell the people that I work with, I have pretending to be cool for some time and I think this might blow my cover.

If you know what this is, you might be old. Wear it as a badge of honour 😎

And if you don't recognise it, this is an eight inch floppy disc that was used with military computers to track supplies and distribution. This one could store a whole 80 kilobytes of data.

We've come a long way baby 🎉

Soliders crouching and ccovering their eyes as a chinook lands on sandy ground behind them. You can almost hear the 'Whacka-whacka' of the chinook blades in the photo.

Sharing this excellent representation of us when one of our trustees pops in with a 'good idea' for #BlueSkyMonday 😉😂

The photo was actually taken in Afghanistan (not in the Museum office) during Op HERRICK.

A military badge showing a stylised yellow lion on a black background. In front of the lion is a shape not dissimilar to the 'poop' emoji but is in actual fact a little stylised pagoda.

It is a miniature pagoda...it is not what you think it is.

This is the badge of the Chindit units who were active in Burma in the Second World War. On the left is a 'Chinthe' (Burmese for 'lion') from which the units took their name, and on the right is a little pagoda.

Soldiers in modern civilian sport clothing doing tug of war at a fun day. There is a bouncy castle in the background.

A vintage black and white photo of soldiers doing tug of war

#ThenandNow - Tug of War still very popular in the British Army 😂

Black and white photo of an absolutely banging big truck...actually it's a modified Land Rover Defender...but it is still pretty cool. It's got massive chunky off road wheels, and a spare mounted on the front.

I like big trucks and I cannot lie 😎

(this one is from the Falklands)

A photo of blue, sky, bluer sea, and a little iceberg bobbing on the horizon. The photo is taken from a ship which is visible in the foreground and there are two soldiers doing...I'm not sure but I am going to say 'soldier things' on the ship. Looks a bit chilly.

Feeling #hot, wish we were here 🧊

Where was this wonderful #iceberg photo taken you ask? This shot was taken onboard the QE2, during the voyage to the #Falklands in 1982. The ship's carpets were protected with 2,000 sheets of hardboard and soldiers were asked to wear civilian shoes whilst on board.

20th June: World Productivity Day

With displays from Agincourt to today, this fascinating museum gives an insight into how the British Army was moved, supplied & sustained over centuries.

Visit the Royal Logistic Corps Museum nr Winchester - royallogisticcorps.co.uk/museum/

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