I thought the ‘Tolkien in Staffordshire’ touring exhibition had finished touring. But the Express & Star today brings news, URL-dated as 27th May 2019, that it’s just opened at Cannock Chase Visitor Centre. They’re not very clear on specifics though, and offer no finish-date.

Initially I wondered if this report was actually a press-release re-writer bot, erroneously re-writing a press-release from 2018? The website at staffordshiregreatwar.com has died and the Staffordshire Council events pages are giving me 404s, so no luck there in terms of discovering more.

But a recent press report on the biopic movie, in the neighbouring Shropshire Star, mentions the exhibitions and gives an inkling as to the current situation for the show…

“Part of that new exhibition has now found a new home at the Great War Hut at the Marquis Drive Visitor Centre [on Cannock Chase] where people will be able to visit every weekend, and Bank Holidays”

I suspect that that’s it, and that it’s now opened as a cut-down permanent exhibit, perhaps with the information boards in leaflet form.