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Beamish is a large museum with a rich and varied range of exhibits reflecting life in northern England during the early 1800s and 1900s. Buildings from around the region have been dismantled, moved to Beamish, and rebuilt and furnished appropriately. The Town, Colliery Village, Farm and Railway Station are set in 1913. Pockerley Manor and Wagonway is set in the early 1800s and depicts the lifestyle of a Yeoman farming family.
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At Beamish you will not see any 'Don't Touch' labels. Objects are displayed in their appropriate settings - desks in the School, drills etc. in the Dentists, coal picks and shovels in the Drift Mine and cash machines in the Co-op Shops. This enables everyone to understand more about how things worked, who used them and how ordinary people lived. |
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Costumed demonstrators around the Museum will make the visit even more enjoyable, explaining the displays or demonstrating traditional crafts and pastimes. To get the most out of a visit you should talk to the costumed demonstrators, and ask questions ! They will explain, in detail, what life was like all those years ago! To get a glimpse of what it is like at Beamish why
not take a virtual tour around the museum - just follow the
links for a description of each of the main areas and a
selection of my photographs |
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It Takes You Back............
Back to the Start of the Tour and Site Map
Web Page Design by
Les
Carter 
- Please E-Mail me for further information
- or why not visit my own Home
Page.
- with some
"peek inside" links - identified by 
- which, when
followed, allow you to see inside various buildings. I have
purposefully kept the display of photographs to a minimum
(well over 100 available on the site) to speed up download
times and allows the visitor to only see the photographs
they are interested in. I am sure that this will whet your
appetite and entice you to visit Beamish and
experience the past yourself. So, enjoy my virtual tour,
remember to re-visit this site often, it is updated
regularly, particularly the Whats on When section - and
don't forget to sign my 