The aim of the museum is to portray life in Northern England in both the 1820's and 1913. All of the exibits and buildings are seen in their everyday settings and characters will explain and display as well as use the exibits.
All of the buildings are original and many have been transported brick by brick from local towns and rebuilt at their new home at Beamish.
Below are just a few of the pictures, many more can be found by on my Facebook page.
Taken in the garage and is typical of pre- World War 1.
By the end of the 19th century growing towns required an effective transport system so from the late 1890's electric tramways were developed across the region
Taken walking towards The Town which once again represents a typical North East town from the early 1870's
The 2 pics above were taken in the Colliery Village. In 1913 over a quarter of a million boys and men produced over 56 million tons of coal annually from over 400 of the regions pits
Taken in the kitchen of a pit cottage. The school above was dismantled piece by piece and rebuilt. All together the Colliery village contains a row of cottages, a school, Methodist Chapel as well as a pit and engine house.
7 comments:
Good to see you are getting out and about Phil, we hope you are getting better.
We've never been up to Beamish, but always fancied it, so thanks for the pictures.
Hi Mick, its a great day out and the photo oportunities are fantastic. When we went they were doing an offer that you could get a year pass for the price of a day pass so we got it. Let me know if you fancy going as you are welcome to use it..I think its about 18 GBP each for adults, its open 7 days a week from 11 until 5 and to be honest you need the full 6hrs.
Now then Phil hope your feeling ok gadding about alover like you are lol.
I haven't been to Beamish since i was a kid(Heading for mid life crissis now!!!!)thanks for bringing back good memories.
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Hi Phil good to see you up and about. nice post keep it comeing.from bosshog aka Bob
Hi Phil good to see you up and about. nice post keep it comeing.from bosshog aka Bob
Thanks for the offer Phil
Monty, my boy, somewhere in the dim and distant past, I recall you mentioning some software you had for monitoring your HoS. Where did you get it, and was it any good?
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