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Beamish Museum What was it like in 1825 or 1913? No modern conveniences like microwaves or the internet or televisions - not even a supermarket. How did they keep the food fresh without a fridge? How did they travel from place to place? Beamish Museum is a living, working experience of life as it was in the Great North in the early 1800's and 1900's, and costumed interpreters welcome visitors and demonstrate the past way of life. The C2C route is only a few minutes from the museum which is set in over 300 acres of beautiful countryside. You can;
Coalmining was the central part of life in the north of England for many, many years, and places like nearby Stanley and all the surrounding, still well-populated area is a direct result of coal mining. Families, often relocating from as far afield as Cornwall, traveled to find work here and established themselves in this rural part of Durham. Times have moved on and the next generations are on the move again, but this is Beamish Museum and a reminder of how it was, with its own colliery and portrayals of the people who worked and lived here for many years.
The Town is an award-winning recreation of a typical market town street of the early 1900s, and a popular part of Beamish Museum. Buildings from the region, such as the Co-op building in nearby Annfield Plain, have been brought here brick by brick and rebuilt and furnished. The Museum recreates life in the North of England, and if you haven't visited yet, then it's well worth the one mile detour - downhill. Photographs Beamish Museum |
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