Beamish Museum - Co Durham

Beamish

Cultural Attraction
in/near Beamish, Durham,
England North East

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Review added: 22/11/2009 01:05
By: durhamgirl (£67.00 earned from reviews) Earn £££'s

"Beamish Museum is quite possibly one of the largest open air museums in the UK. Located in Beamish, just outside Cherster le Street in County Durham it recreates life in the North East of England in the 1800s and 1900s.

Beamish is home to a large variety of different period shops, homes and more! At over 300 acres, there is lots of things to see and do and it's a lovely place to walk around on a sunny day. We are however in the North East and sunny days are a bit of a rare feature here! Just aswell that Beamish run an original vintage tram and bus to get you around.

The museum is split into 7 different sections;
- The Town. This is based on a North East town just before the First World War. Shops include a dentists, solicitors, Newspaper office, a garage and a sweet shop. All of the shops are fully kitted out with period items and you can even buy sweets in the sweet shop! For adults there is the local pub, licensed to serve alcohol. All of the buildings here are real period buildings that have been transported from their original home brick by brick.
- Home Farm. Modeled on a prosperous farm of the early 1900s. Includes stables, bulls pen and a blacksmith's forge.
- Colliery Village. Larn how the lamps were cleaned, maintained and lit before going underground for a tour of the mine.
- The Railway Station. Although it doesn't have any moving trains, it's still well worth a look round.
- Pockerley Manor. The Manor represents the home of a wealthy farming family in the 1800s. It sits on the top of a hill and a form of the house has done so ever since the 1100s. Look round the whole house.
- Pockerley Waggonway. Ride on one of 3 replica locomotives on a 1km trip through the valley around Pockerley Manor.
- Georgian Landscape. This is the land surrounding Pockerley Manor and the Waggonway. It's been fully restored to show what it might have been like in the 1820s.

Although pretty pricey, during the summer tickets are £16 for an adult and £10 for a child, Beamish is well worth a visit. It easily takes up all day as there is so much to see. Take a picnic and have fun!"

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