VOLUNTEERS at Dawlish Museum have been hard at work behind the scene getting new displays ready for this year’s opening.

This year, one of the new features involves costume and the exhibition is called Dressed to Impress.

Set up in the main display room, the exhibition gives an insight into evening wear through the ages from the Victorian era almost to the present day.

A look back into the museum archive has given and insight into some of the fashions from bygone eras.

The museum, at The Knowle in Barton Terrace, officially opens for its 2023 season on May 31 and will remain open until September.

It has 11 rooms over three floors and is renowned for it’s display of Piper Bill Millin’s D-Day Bagpipes, given to the museum by Bill who lived in Dawlish for many years until his death.

Its vast archive contains 100s of rare historical photographs depicting life in the town, past and present.

Also featured is details of the notorious storm of February 2014 which breached the coastal railway line.