Beamish Museum: North East England’s Living Museum
A 1900s sweet shop, a tram ride through a pit village and a 1950s hair salon, all in one day. I’m joined by Samantha Shotton, Chief Operating Officer and Deputy CEO of Beamish, The Living Museum of the North, in County Durham.
The 1820s landscape: Pockerley, the waggonway and the new tavern
The 1900s pit village and town: drift mine, school, sweet shop and dentist
The 1940s farm and the 1950s town, cinema and hairdresser’s
Talking to the costumed staff and volunteers
Why Beamish is one to visit if your family came from the North East
What to eat: the sweet shop, the bakery and coal-fired fish…
The skinny
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