A WEEKEND to remember and enjoy has been had at a museum.

Milestones Museum, at Basingstoke Leisure Park, held an old-fashioned family summer fete over the weekend, with traditional games including hook-a-duck and a coconut shy, a fairground organ, vintage tea tent, face painter, craft stalls and much more to enjoy.

The event doubled up as something of a D-Day 75th anniversary memorial as on Saturday, the Drive To Remember convoy arrived at the site.

On Saturday, the convoy of classic military vehicles travelled 50 miles, replicating the journey taken by General Eisenhower on June 5, 1944, to visit troops based at the American airfield at Greenham Common, across Hampshire and Berkshire.

The convoy was welcomed to the museum by the mayor of Basingstoke and Deane, Councillor Diane Taylor, before it travelled on to Greenham Common.

Elsewhere at the event on Saturday, the Spitfire Sisters performed Andrews Sisters-style harmonies, swinging classics and old takes on new tunes, while members of the Test Valley Brass Band provided entertainment on Sunday.

The Second World War theme will continue at Milestones this summer, with a new family experience and exhibition, We’ll Meet Again…, which will tell the story of life on the home front in Hampshire from the Blitz through to VE Day, opening on July 23.

We’ll Meet Again… will give visitors a taste of what it was like to live through evacuation, rationing and the blackout, and will include recreations of cooking demonstrations from the Ministry of Food and an air raid in a public shelter during the Blitz.