Beamish is a museum based on rural life from 1820 to a 1940's war time farm. It shows the transformation of the farming countryside to a coal mining area and the industry that was required to support the mines. It covers a huge area, so this visit we restricted ourselves to the town site and the Colliery.
The displays are a mixture of everything from old cars, tractors, trains etc and the mundane things of every day life, which are very interesting, comparing the modern day stuff with things from a hundred years ago.
An old trolley bus used to move the people around the sight.
A bit of Northren England here - dry stone walling.
Another old trolley bus.
Some old publicity signs.
These old signs I find very interesting.
These two old buses in the repair shop for abit of tlc.
One of the best things about this place is that they use the machines they have refurbished. This Fordson tractor being used cart away wood.
All the houses in the various village's are heated by coal fires as they would have been in the old days, this horse and cart take all the coal to the houses.
A display of old Hoover cleaners
This is what it was old about, the main driver of the industrial revolution- coal.
The old bus we travelled on back to the car park.
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