Beamish, The Living Museum of the North. Photos.
Beamish Museum is a great place to visit. Its near Durham right up North. No, even further North than Sheffield!! It a huge site split into different zones showing how we use to live. There is the High Street which has all the old shops like the bakery, sweet shop, garage and bank. As well other tradespeople houses like the dentist and undertaker. You can go in and look round all of these. There is the train station which you can have a steam train ride. The farm. The colliery pit and school. They also have a fish and chip shop which uses traditional methods. Just a word of warning we tried to go there and there was about 30 people queuing and they said it would be an hour and half wait! So we gave up. There is so much more than that. Connecting it all is a tram line and cherabangs connecting it all. All the staff are in period dress and happy to show you how things work. Its a really great place to visit and really different to see history working and let you go back in time and experience it for yourself rather than just seeing cold dead items in a museum. Your ticket lets you come back as often as you want for a year and you need it as we took two visits to see everything we wanted to see and still didn't see everything. Once you pay everything else is pretty much included. You can spend all day riding around on the trams if you wanted to. It also is wheelchair accessible. They even have a replica of a vintage bus that can take wheelchairs. Dogs are allowed on leads but not in the buildings. They have an old open Blackpool Tram as well as more local single double decker trams. Photos below and link to find out more below the photos.
