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Beamish Museum, County Durham, August 2001 - page 2
Staying near Newcastle, we went to Beamish, the North of England Open
Air Museum in County Durham on the second day of our short break holiday.
This is page two of two.
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In a mock-up of a 1913 classroom, Mike and Bob acted like misbehaving
school kids and got told off by a 1913 teacher! The school was part
of the 1913 colliery village at Beamish, complete with realistic actors
playing the part.
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This lady is the character in an early 20th century kitchen at Beamish
Open Air Museum, chatting to all the visitors and making everyone feel
like they'd just walked into a time warp. Not that we remember, of
course... well, except Mike!
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Mike tries to show how they dried their clothes in the olden days, but the
mangle won in the end. It's enough to turn your hair white!
The excellent Beamish Open Air Museum website is is well worth a look, see
our UK tourist links page.
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Here we have one of the old trams that takes visitors around the various
areas at Beamish Museum. There are also old buses running too.
As you can see, the weather wasn't any better in County Durham than in
Scotland the previous day.
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This is the award-winning recreation of a typical northern market town
street, complete with 1913 shops, bank, offices, doctors, garage, dentist,
pub, etc. We had lunch in the 1913 café, but they charged 2001
prices (though it was very reasonable).
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Here's the 1913 sweet shop at Beamish, with jars of sweeties behind the
assistants in period costume, old scales and till to the right
foreground. You could view them making the sweets and sample them
too in the small shop factory adjoining.
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A shot of the 1913 northern town at Beamish from the other direction, the
old car is heading for the 1913 railway station. This is perhaps an
early version of Mike's car - no air conditioning or sports/economy switch
though!
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The garage man here explained the workings of the 1913 garage at
Beamish. This place was interesting, with lots of old motor signs,
vehicle bits and so on. Notice the van in the back loaded up with
stuff. Now, where's the gift shop?
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This statue is called 'The Angle of the North' and it's situated just off
the A1(M) highway. It's supposed to signify your arrival in the far
north of England. Notice the people at its base, that gives an idea
of the size.
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The Gateshead hotel we stayed in was very comfortable. Here's a shot
of us enjoying a drink in the bar before going in to dinner while Mike
embarrassed everyone by running around videoing everything. Video
clips on our videos page.
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We ventured north again to the Highlands
of Scotland in 2004.
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