Americans React to Beamish Museum - The Living Museum of the North
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In this video we react to the Beamish Museum, also know as the living museum of the north. Located in County Durham, England, this open air museum takes you back in time and allows you to see first hand what life was like in northern England at time periods between the 1820's -1950's!
The Beamish Museum looks like an incredible way to explore UK history for both adults and kids. This looks like so much fun. The Beamish Museum is definitely going on our list of attractions for when we visit the north east of England.
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Places such as Beamish are a reason not to spend too long in London, which has it's own merits but as you can see there is so much more to see in the whole of the UK.
Could not agree more Yorkshire and North East ❤️❤️❤️ My city York and Durham are stunning
London shudder, now least British place in the UK.
@@jemmajames6719 yes not my capital city any more
London's a great city, no doubt about it. It's a shame that so many people feel the need to past petty comments on its population, had the original population not left London then it wouldn't be the way it is, Londoners or ex Londoners as they now are only have themselves to blame.
@@martinwebb1681 I am York born and bred , but London is still my Capital City I am also from England
They don't just replicate the buildings ... they MOVE the original!
Spain's Farm was taken down brick by brick and rebuilt at Beamish (originally from Weardale in Co. Durham)
They did something similar in my town. A shop closed because the owner retired. Over 25 years ago we were having a new street for shops built. Frank Woods Hat shop was taken down brick by brick and each one numbered. I think it was put into storage. But have heard it recently opened as a shop.
They moved all the old buildings in Coventry that were left after the Luftwaffe had given it a visit. They had just enough to make a short street.
Yeah, we caught that! That's pretty amazing
They moved a school near where I lived to there
My dad used to play in the train station they have before the moved it to beamish. It had been at the end of his road and he always said it took him home whenever we visited
You were right Steve. Every kid within an hour of Beamish will have had multiple school trips at various ages during their childhood
we would come down from morpeth middle schools on trips in 80s
Went to school just over in chester le street, had some great times going here on trips top tier
I live 10 minutes from their and have never been my school didn’t give a damn
We only went once from my school but it was more than an hours coach ride away for us kids in E.Yorks. I have been again a couple of times myself but it's nearly 10yrs ago since I was last there.
If it was pre ww1 then it is likely to be 1880s to 1914 when ww1 started
Hi Blackout at night means exactly that during the war you had to be in complete darkness and not showing a light heavy fine and even prison if you did, as most German planes would come in under cover of darkness and if they saw a light below they would know where to drop their bombs,
On the Moors in Yorkshire were lights looking like Blast Furnaces to fool the Luftwaffe into believing they were bombing the Steel City of Sheffield. This didn't work too well as we learned from an Ex Luftwaffe Bomber Pilot in the fifty's when asked how they managed to be so accurate by bombing half way down a street one night and starting from where they had left off the following might. He said " We had maps of the Sheffield Tram system and on moonlight nights we followed the rails with the Moon shining on them.
When the US entered the war, lots of convoys were sunk at first because German U-boats could come right next to US coastal cities and see the ships silhouetted against the city lights - the mayors etc refused to do blackout because they said it would be bad for tourism! Fortunately the US government cracked down on them after that.
@@BlameThandeI also read that the local population used to go to shore to watch the spectacle of convoy ships being sunk.
That makes sense! That's what we figured.
Trams run by the eletric pole on the top, & metal tracks.
Yup, those were overhead power lines.
Some British mainline trains are powered by overhead electric cables so I think the definition of a tram is that it runs on sunken rails down a city or town street that it shares with cars and bikes etc.
The electric pole is called the pantograph.
As a child in the 60s in my hometown of Ipswich, Suffolk trams were still in use. I loved putting my ear to the metal post to which the wire was attached to hear when the tram was getting close
And trolley buses run on overhead lines but no rails, just regular bus wheels on the road. :)
I used to take my son to Blists Hill at Ironbridge you could change your money in a old bank to old money ( before 1971 ) and spend the money in the shops, they showed you how things were made, old schools, horse and carts, blacksmiths, candle makers, sweet makers, basket weaving, etc, and we all loved the learning experience and felt like we were going back in time.
These villages are all around the UK and we have a 1960's street in Birmingham that had back to back house's furnished in that era, i live where there was a large mining area so we have mines that are Museum's that are working and have heritage, the Black Country Museum is another one.
All are very educational for children and most schools will do day trips to these places
All of the buildings and what's in them are original, the furniture, packets, bottles, tools, they source old items from around the country and have things donated
Also a Brummie (now in North Wales)
I remember being taken to Blists Hill and Black Country museum by school in the 80's.
Good times ☺
I've been to Beamish and you have to spend several days to get the best of it. I love Blists Hill. More compact and specialising in the Victorian era. I've been several times over the years and watched it grow, but for me the best part is changing my money at the bank and paying for everything in Lsd (I'm old enough to remember doing it for real).
I grew up with old money, when I went to Bliss Hill and changed my modern money I thought it would be a breeze, went to the fish and chip shop, after I while I held the money out like a foreigner 😂
Blists Hill is on my doorstep, well with a short trip
Definitely worth a visit
I live 10 minutes from Blist's Hill, been so many times, lots of other industrial revolution themed museums to see to as well as the Iron Bridge
The north east of england is well worth a visit, surrounding beamish museam you have beautiful beaches and coastline, amazing Norman castles and cathedrals, anglo saxon museum/farm, many roman fort museams and hadrians wall, two football obsessed cities, and glorious landscapes.
Well, that's the North East in a nutshell really ... well done !!!
From Whitby to Berwick there is tonnes of stuff to see and do. As a 'mackem' I'm heavily biased to the north east and love it when people are surprised at what we have up here....
Bring a big coat, even in summer😂
The Black Country museum is brilliant, go here regularly with my children
I was going to mention this too.
Yes, we're planning on checking that one out as well :)
I live 5 miles away from Beamish, the best thing is, you pay once and its free for the rest of the year, my kids practically live there during the summer
Yeah definitely best thing about it I live literally on the doorstep of it and love it so much
Hi Steve and Lindsay. All the buildings in our Living History Museums are not new builds copying the style of the era. They are actual buildings that have been taken down brick by brick then taken to a site here. Hence even the ambience and dare I say smell remains.
There are some new builds. For example, the stables in the village are a recreation of stables at High Spen. I drive past the original regularly. The 1950s town is new build recreations of original buildings. The attention to detail is phenomenal. The Daveys fish shop is named after the family run chip shop in Winlaton Mill, which donated their original fryer to Beamish.
Dab is a type of flatfish (like flounder or plaice), often eaten as an alternative to cod or haddock which is the traditional fish in fish and chips.
I'm English and didn't know this. Every day is a school day, cheers pal.
My old nan used to love skate (a type of fish) and chips from the chippy, and my dad always had Rock and chips. I don't think you get Rock fish these days but it used to be common in London back in the seventies.
@@martinwebb1681 .
Rock salmon disappeared when they could no longer call the fish salmon, since it wasn't. Dogfish, which is what rock salmon was, didn't appeal.
I love skate, don't see it much these days.
It was briefly repopularised as Dab in a bap as a more fish stock friendly alternative by hugh fearnley whittingstall about a decade ago. Along with a brief time where battered mackerel was around.
@@martinwebb1681 Rock Salmon, Dogfish is a Shark and no longer allowed to be legally caught and landed. The Common Skate, a Ray also on the endangered list with a very small quota, as a large fish just 3 can put a vessel over quota. Often now only caught and landed to order.
The Beamish living museum was the concept of one man who had been saving historic household and garden stuff from the 1950's before ut was destroyed , it was European Museum of the year for many years & it's amazing , it was the first concept museum ever, the rest are copies .
The hairdresser I go to is in a 1950's build but still in use. The museum experts came to it over & over, measured, took photos & left their plans for us all to see...they searched till they found a similar one in Durham about to be pulled down. I go once a year usually &, once bought the tickets last a whole year 🎉❤
Beamish is fantabulous. I love it. But it wasn't the first. As briefly said in the video this concept originated in Scandanavia with Oslo's Folk museum on brygdog (well worth a visit, the stave church is a marvel) opening in the 1890s. Here in the UK I can say for sure that weald and Downland in sussex opened in the 60s beating beamish by a few years. So Beamish, while not oldest, will simply have to settle for being the absolute best open air museum around.
"Not today, marra" - Marra is a word found in north-eastern dialects and means mate (friend).
The sign on the pit cottage said" not today marra," meaning not today friend.
And would have been message to the "knocker upper" not to wake him up
Ah, okay!
@@reactingtomyroots just incase your wandering what a knocker upper is, before alarm clocks a person with a long stick would be paid to walk down the normally terraced streets bangin there stick on the bedroom windows to wake the workers up so they wouldn't be late for work, this happened mainly in the industrial mill towns in the north of England were nearly everyone who lived there would be employed in the same textile mill or colliery
Usually those blackboards just have a time which would when the knocker upper was required to do his thing. The building it is on is the outside toilet with a hatch where the "night soil men" would draw out the full bucket and replace it with a fresh one in the early hours.
It's actually a play on words and abit of a joke around allotments a marra is a word for friend and a marra is also a courgette or marrow. We say it the same way.
I live a 5 minute drive from Beamish Museum, I take my dogs there all the time for a walk around, it is literally a place you will never get bored of xx ❤️
@graemeknox let’s go today :)
Me too. Live between Sunniside and whickham. Takes like 5 mins to blast through.
@@frankdux5693I worked in the Bay Horse in whickham, years ago. My Mam worked in the garage on front street too. Lovely place.
@@Howay.Man.Angelica don't get in there much. I get in the harry clasper more than anywhere on whickham front street.
@frankdux5693 one of my roots come from Wickham, the Spoors.
Can’t believe they didn’t get a pint. The pub is always a must when we go there. Also for older history the north east has some amazing castles (see Bamburgh castle.) and oh yeah Hadrians wall.
A lot of the furnishings for the pub, came from a pub called the Blue Lion in East Witton. When the old lady died, Beamish were given the original features. I remember going to the original pub before old lady died and talking to her, she was a real traditional Dales woman, who suffered no fools and told you straight.
I visited Beamish about 40 years ago, when it was much less extensive than now. I went underground in the drift mine and met a retired coal miner who talked visitors through the dirty, dangerous and laborious process of mining coal by dynamite, pick and shovel. The whole place was fascinating then and it looks even more so now.
The drift mine was closed last i went but i went when it first opened and you went down in coal carts on a track. Might be hard for them to find a real miner these days to tell you about it.
just to let you know, guys, every building you see is original, they were dismantled and rebuilt, nothing is modern to make it look good,
as i said its my part of the world, i live in a mining village, i will comment what we have and why
In addition ,all the old products displayed are real not modern copies - even the old Garage smells of Caster Oil.
Most, if not all the buildings in the 1950s area are reconstructions. Some of the interiors in the 1950 area are original though.
I live in the village where the Co-operative building used to be, the Co-op built a new store opposite to the old one (which is now a Tesco) which incidentally was built on the site of the former railway station that got thatchered out of existence, and the old building, or at least one part of it (as there was a lot more frontage to it than what is currently in Beamish), was transplanted to the museum and restored to its' original appearance as it would have looked in the early 1900s... :)
Pockerly Manor is on it's original site and I think the 1940s farm, the rest are transplants.
@@twocvblokethe Co op was just down the road from my school-I went to Greencroft- and remember it being dismantled to go down to Beamish.
St Fagans National History Museum,
Cardiff, Wales,
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St Fagans has a special place in the hearts of the people of Wales. It first opened its gates to the public on 1 July 1948. This was the UK’s first national open air museum. It was radical in its day because it reflected the everyday lives of ordinary people. Since then, it has become Wales’ most popular heritage visitor attraction.
fabulous place
Absolutely - a brilliant place.
Does that include the castle? Before the war it belonged to the Earl and Countess of Plymouth. My mum worked for them as a nursery maid and spent many happy times at St. Fagans.
@@angelawhitehouse8066 Wow what memories you must have.
Yes it includes the castle. The Plymouth family donated the land and existing buildings then many more buildings have been moved there from across Wales.
You can spend the whole day there and not see it all.
Also it is Free to enter. You only pay for what you chose to buy while there.
My friend lives near Caerphilly but I live in Lincolnshire.
I just screen shotted your comment. I'm going when the weather picks up.
A dab is a delicious small flat fish. If you are in the south, the Weald and Downland Museum is worth a visit - lots of buildings from different eras which were scheduled for demolition but taken down and rebuilt at the museum. Also, not far from there, is Little Woodham which is a Stuart village reanactment. This is run by volunteers and only open on certain days so you'd need to look it up before visiting.
Museum of Welsh Life in St Fagans near Cardiff in South Wales. Goes back to medieval cottages. All buildings are original but they have been moved stone by stone, brick by brick and timber by timber.
Iron Bridge is a town that was were the first Iron Bridge was made from cast iron. The pole on the tram is the pickup for the electric supply to the motor.
I forgot about Iron bridge. We stayed there before visiting the black country museum and bliss hill
Ironbridge, Coalbrookdale and neighbouring villages were the cradle of the Industrial Revolution.
Do you still get the certificate for walking across the bridge? I still have mine from the late 80s
One of the largest and longest established museums of this type is the Welsh National Folk Museum outside Cardiff (Amgueddfa Werin Cymru). In addition to the indoor displays at St Fagan's Castle, almost 50 buildings have been reconstructed in the grounds. There are chapels, mills, farmhouses, streets, old shopes, from all over the nation, some as old as 500-600 yrs.
Thanks for the info. I Didn't know it existed.will definitely check it out when in the area.
Latest one to be moved (brick by brick) to St Fagans is the Vulcan Pub from Newtown in Cardiff. Will be restored to how it was in the 1920s - they have just advertised for a manager and staff to run it as a working pub @@Carl_Raybould
If you have seen the Dr Who story Human Nature/The Family of Blood then you have seen some of St Fagans where it stood in for the village close to the school where most of the action was set.
There's also the Weald And Downland Museum in Sussex in the South East Of England. It has rescued and rebuilt rural buildings from the area. Most are from older periods, back to medieval and Tudor times, so maybe not your preference, but they similarly have staff doing historical crafts etc.
There a living museum in the Black Country in the West Midlands you should check it out . Love your channel Guys
This is certainly a place to watch a video on, as it’s a great place to see how Great Britain’s industrial age roots began.
Oh yeah check out Black Country museum! Pesky blinders was filmed there
I’ll always remember visiting the Black Country Museum with school. It’s a really cool place, and the best fish and chips I ever remember having!
Black Country Museum is well worth a visit. They have lots of events like the 1940s weekends where most visitors also dress up, we didn’t and wished we had. You can also “leg it” through the Dudley canal tunnels there, buy fish & chips, have a pint of beer, go down the coal mine and lots more.
The west midlands is a great place for a family like you to spend a vacation if you like this sort of thing ....
You have the c
Black Country living museum (very similar in nature to beamish)
You also have the Severn valley railway (tourist steam railway that has some fantastic views)
And west midlands safari park.
You have Birmingham city centre for a fairly typical non London british city including the think tank museum which is definitely worth taking Sophia to (it's a science and technology museum)
And you are close to various other places nearby in the east Midlands (1-2 hours drive) such as the Space centre in Leicester. The great central railway (very similar to the Severn valley but the only major double track heritage railway)
Crich tramway village in Derbyshire
The heights of Abraham (you get a cable car to get up the hill)
And huge amounts of industrial history (thy part of Derbyshire was super key in the spinning and weaving trade)
Theres a living museum in Scotland called the Highland Folk Museum. Shows what highland life was like from 1700s-1950s. Same as Beamish in the sense the buildings were saved and moved to the site to preserve them😊
That's pretty awesome! Love this concept.
Been there many times, as it's only around 15 miles from where I live...it truly is a fantastic day out
Peaky blinders was partly filmed there black country museum awesome love it there
Some parts were also filmed at the Inland Waterways museum Ellesmere Port along with other tv shows and films.
Beamish is local to me and I've been there more than a few times. It's constantly growing by adding new areas (as in places from history). The place is huge! It'll take you more than a day to see all of it in detail.
Got a picture sent to me today on messenger from.someome who works at Beamish. It was of a wooden beach spade with my name and childhood address on it. It was originally my mother's.and then she gave it to me in the 70s. She donated it to the museum about 40 years ago. It's going to be used as an exhibit in the new 1950s toy shop. I'd forgotten all about this until I saw the picture. Sadly my mother passed away in 2017 and won't get to see the exhibit but it's lovely to know that something that belonged to her and myself will be on display for the world to see in the near future.
This makes me feel so old! My nana and grandad lived in the pit cottages - Francis Street is the one re-built in Beamish museum, but my grandparents were in Caroline Street, just a minute walk away. They were all exactly the same - built by the mine owners for their workers and their families. All of the toilets were outside, beside the coal-sheds. The coal was delivered through the hatch on the outside wall - the sign was "nothing today marra" - a note to say they didn't need a coal delivery. "Marra" just means friend - its still used here in the northeast, the word being derived from "pitmatic" - many words which developed around pit-working men. The cottages were demolished, I think I remember, around 1980. The bungalow my grandparents moved into provided them (for the first time) with an inside toilet and a 'proper' inside kitchen.
My dad and grandad worked at the colliery there - Eppleton Colliery, in Hetton-le-Hole. In the video they just call it 'Hetton', as the locals still do. Dad worked at that mine until it was closed in 1987, when I was 14 years old. He started work at that colliery when he was just 14.
Its just weird to think I was running through those cottages as a child and for it to be called "history". 😄 Living history, I suppose. Those outside toilets were very, very cold in the winter - I can remember breaking the ice when we visited. No toilet paper, just cut up squares of newspaper on a piece of string, hooked over a nail in the wall!
I now live in the city of Durham, so still close by. My mother now lives in the nearby town of Houghton-Le-Spring. Dad died just two and a half years ago now. He would be 82 years old now. His generation are the last of the coal miners - we no longer have any deep coal mines hereabouts.
The 1950's area is open now at Beamish. I definitely recommend Beamish. If you visit, make sure you're there the whole day - even with a whole day, there'll be parts of the museum you won't see.
You reminded me of my childhood living in an old terraced house with an outside toilet. You're right it was absolutely freezing in winter and I remember my Dad having to dig it out when it snowed.
Love to see Steve, Sophie and Linsey visit GB and Ireland. The tram runs on rails AND electric cables. Blackout time refers to wartime bombing raids at night by the Luftwaffe as it was a 1940s section of town. All street lamps were put out and heavy curtains were drawn in the houses to prevent lights from guiding the German bombers to theirtargets. I would recommend Linsey take an umbrella 🌂 not just for the possibility of rain, but to hit Steve over the head if he starts talking too much 😂😂
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St Fagans in Wales has houses, shops, and schools brought in from all over Wales, hundreds of years of history that you can walk around and experience for the price of parking your car. It's set in a great big outdoor site, they do have some shops that sell stuff, and a gift shop, also cafe and bakery, but a picnic is much more convenient and cheaper. Summer - watch out for the wasps! Some things vary when you go, but the buildings are all available all year, depending on maintenance work. They're all furnished in the period they were built. Usually in peak periods, school holidays etc, they have special events, where you can get involved. My favourite was a reenactment of The Battle of St Fagans, which was so much fun, and so interesting. It sounds very similar to this one, we bring the buildings here the same way. I've been going there for years. Very interactive.
Went there as a kid.
I lived a couple of miles away in St Fagans Road and spent many days there in the summer holidays. A beautiful place.
So does beamish..🤷♀️
America has their open air museums as well. Winston Salem, Jamestown, Williamsburg and Plimoth Museum. As a tourist from the UK they were all wonderful and as well as informative and thoroughly enjoyed by me and my husband. Yes they were different from Beamish, the Black Country Musuem, Blist Hill and many others throughout the UK, but, still worth a visit
Yes, the Winston Salem one is the one I used to go to in school :)
I've travelled on those trams in my childhood. Finished in early 50's. (Note: The trams had seats where the backs tilted from one side to the other, because, as trams cannot turn round, the seat backs tilt to allow the passengers keep facing forwards. They can be driven from either end for the same reason.
Some cities are reintroducing modern trams because they're so efficient and comparitively green but you also have the old trams still in service at blackpool
Trouble is, the tracks are fixed in the middle of the road, and there is a risk to passengers alighting from the trams, and walking into undertaking traffic. @@theotherside8258
"Blackout Time" is when you would have to close all your curtains and make sure no light was being shown from your property (street lamps would also be turned off). this was because the Luftwaffe could use your location on their bombing raids. Air Raid Wardens would knock on your door and inform you if any light was being shown, which you could be fined for or even arrested as a Spy if caught doing it more than once.
Went on school trips here as a kid. Of course, I loved the old fashioned sweet shop!
Was down at Beamish for their Christmas event last December. Snow on the ground, people in costume, carol singers, steam buses, market stalls set up in the High Street area. Everyone was friendly and having a good time. Class.
What wasn't mentioned in the 1900's town is that there's a pub and you can enjoy a beer or two and a pork pie. There's also several other homes and even a dentist in there. A Dab is a sliced potato , battered and deep fried.. Here in Lancashire we call them fritters. They grown there own crops there too. Using traditional horse drawn plough to harvest potato's etc.
Dabs a flat fish why would you have battered potatoe with chips,
It's both. In parts of Lancashire a Dab is what he said it was and is available from fish and chip shops, most commonly eaten as a Shad Dab, which is the previously described battered potato slice inside a buttered bread roll/bun(called a barm cake) with mushy peas and/or brown gravy, and/or ketchup/brown sauce. Replace the Dab with a meat pie, and you have a Pie Barm, also known as a Wigan Kebab.
In Manchester these battered potato slices are called Scallops.
@@sjbict .... 😂😂.... Yes, very true. Dab is a type of flat fish.
I’m in Lancashire (and have been all my life) and know that style of potato as a scallop.
There is a similar museum to this near me (The Black Country Museum) where they film some of Peaky Blinders. Think it was a regular for school field trips for most kids who grew up in the midlands. Amazing how they move the building brick-by-brick from their original locations.
I love Beamish, it’s such a wonderful place. However my first experience of a living museum (back in 1985!🫣) was the Ulster Folk Museum in Northern Ireland and it’s also worth a visit. Like Beamish, all the buildings were rescued and relocated brick by brick. Different parts of the U.K. lived very differently in the past, and each area has a uniqueness and history all its own.
The Ulster American folk museum in NI is also worth a visit, it shows the cultural differences between the different parts of the UK and the US. The Ulster Folk and Transport museum is one of the best examples I have ever visited though booking is required nowadays.
There used to be the Ulster History museum in Northern Ireland too it was across from the folk museum, but unfortunately it is closed now. I am glad I got to visit it before it closed.
I love Beamish - first went on a school trip about 30 years ago and it’s been nice to see it grow and develop. They have a tram there that my Grandad drove when it was in normal service.
Tram - runs on rails in the road surface. Trolley bus has wheels with tyres, like a normal bus. Both powered by electric motors supplied by overhead lines.
I was born in the north east of England. Very close to Newcastle. I love Beamish. Oh and I have a picture of my Mam and Dad in the costumes.
All of the buildings in Beamish have been brought from elsewhere. They're dismantled brick by brick, and rebuilt the same way, everything is numbered. The coal mine, is just very dark. You have to wear a helmet, and there are lamps all along the way. They switch them off when you get down, but only for a minute, just to show you how the men, women and children worked in near darkness. Makes you think when you realise there were tiny bairns working there. Usually around the age of eight, but some as young as five were working shifts in there. My grandad William worked down the mines, and like a lot of people it destroyed his lungs.
Did you know there were pit villages? You were rented a cottage by the mine owner, and you could live there, as long as you had someone working in the mine. The only thing is, if you were a couple, with a young family and the man was down the mines, and was killed or long term injured, you had around three days to leave the cottage. Imagine your husband has just died, and you and your kids are homeless. Just like that.
Beamish museum county Durham, it was placed on another site, all the buildings, bricks where moved from the original houses etc, it's great to see, it's a 2.5 hours drive from Carlisle Cumbria England.
They have a dentist, sweet shop. School, mine
I live nearby and for me It is worth going to listen in on the old grandmas and grandads that actually visited the buildings when they were in their original location and some work there talking about times gone by, if you can pull off a cheeky Chappie Geordie accent when you go around the old houses there are sometimes women who work there and blokes in the clothing of the period cooking in the old fire oven usually just scones and the like.
I stood at the door watching and said "Oh it smells lovely in here it's like being back at Nan's when she baked how I miss it, I used to love her scones when they came out of the oven warm and she would put butter on" the lady cut into a scone and put butter on and walked over and give it to me.
I said oh that's very kind of you I wasn't hinting just saying and she looked at me and said yeah right, I said I'm telling the truth but it's a kind gesture all the same this looked just like Nan made the only difference was she used to make me a cup of tea to go with it and the lady said can I ask you a question? yes fire away I said and with a glint in her eye, she asked did Nan ever give you a thick ear for being cheeky? my luck had run out I was rumbled.
I thanked her for the scone and said Nan couldn't catch me to give me a thick ear, I was a lot younger then but I reckon I can still outrun you lol.
This isn't far from me! I love it! There aren't actors but all the staff dress in period clothing, carry period backets or bags, wear period hats and shoes and drive period vehicles around the museum to get their jobs done. The different parts of the museum mainly date from the 1900s town to the 1950s town ❤ Also, the food market isn't always there, that would be an event day to plan for 😊
Hi Steve - you must visit Beamish in County Durham - try and come when they have a car or motorcycle rally on - nearby is a lot of things Yanks like - Washington old hall where George Washington's family lived and the bi-centennial memorial Jimmy Carter opened in 1976 - the area is full of history - your family will love it - Coll
Thats exactly what they are, at the Black Country Museum, all buildings have been rescued and re-built brick by brick. You can drink in the fully working pub, or eat fish and chips (the best we have ever had) from the chippie, or look at boats on the canal, witness chain making or tea and cakes in the town hall. Trolley buses run around. All sorts of houses, shops, and industry including a coal mine. Well worth a visit (Found in Dudley, near Birmingham). Trams run from overhead power lines but run on rails, trolley buses use overhead power, but run on tires.
I remeber going there when I was a kid visiting family on Newcastle.
I am half Norwegian and half British, growing up in Norway but visiting family in the UK a couple of times a year.
It was so much fun going there as a kid.
We were there yesterday. We will be going back not just because we didn't see it all but because it is incredible.
Apparently and we hope it's true.... they are planning accommodation on the site so you can stay over in museum. The pub is superb and "incredible" is an understatement on the whole experience.
Simon and Isabelle ❤
Loved going there has a kid. It's only 40ish miles away.
They missed the steam engine Locomotive, it is based on the Darlington and Stockton railway 1825. The first railway in the world
Locomotion, and it's worth checking the website if you want to ride behind it (you do!) as it doesn't run every day.
@@user-pf3ye6yi9n been on it a few times
Many of the buildings at the Black Country museum were moved brick by brick from their original location and rebuilt back at the museum.
Beamish is absolutely lovely. We live in the North East but are not originally from there so it was nice for us to visit to learn about the past in our new part of the country. One thing that seems to not have been there when the video you watched was created was the old funfair. Theres an old carousel, helter skelter, sideshows etc. I'm not sure though if it is only seasonal. It is such a lovely place to go to.
The beamish museum is amazing! I loved jumping on and off the trams exploring the whole 1800's town, 1900's town, bought sweets a cakes from the sweet shop and bakery, and soaps in the chemist, went into a tea room, fairground and all the staff walk around in period costume! I visited the farm and air raid shelter, so interesting and so fun!
I live an hour away from Beamish and regularly visit with the kids. They’ve just added a few new 1950s era areas.
The best thing about Beamish is the Pub, it is a real working pub but the amount of people who don’t realise is very entertaining, they wander in look around and wandering out. I always make sure I have a pint while my wife and kids are in the queue for the sweet shop.
I live about 30 mins from Beamish and lived in the North East since 1983, only visited last year. The experience is outstanding. highly recommend the visit. You, your wife and daughter will love it.
My family's old grocery shop was taken down brick by brick and rebuilt in the Black Country Museum.
I live around 6 miles from Beamish museum. In my last year at school i went on placement to Beamish and painted the Bandstand among other duties. Later i worked for Durham County Council doing building work and maintenance. I have not been back for a few years now and i know its developed a lot further than when i was last there. Looking forward to visiting it once again. Some of the buildings there were transferred from my immediate local area and i recall them standing in their original places in villages and towns nearby.
two more sites - Blists Hill in ironbridge which is the location of the worlds first iron bridge, they have a similar arrangement and have working candle makers, iron furnace, candle makers etc. and The Black Country Museum where you can walk a canal boat out of the tunnel.
I liked the way you interact with staff dressed in costume of the day and you get a breakdown of its history. Spoke with a lady who was in the dentist and was fascinated with the conversation. Been down the coal mine, awesome.
Electric trams were everywhere in the UK in 1900. The Blackpool Tramway opened in 1885 and is still operating today. Electric trams were only really overtaken by the motor bus in the 1950s. Most UK cities had extensive tram networks which regrettably were nearly all ripped out, however some cities like Manchester, Edinburgh etc are starting to rebuild their's.
Yes, trams once again are becoming popular, especially since the year 2,000. Many cities like Nottingham, Sheffield, Birmingham, Greater Manchester, and even part of London, now have Tram systems. Blackpool of course have had a tram system for ages since 1885.
Blackpool has modernised their trams, the vintage Trams run on special events.
I live about 10 mile away from Beamish and 4 miles away from Durham City, check out our Cathedral and castle.
We go to Beamish about once a month and every time we go we find something new to see.
The 1950s houses and miners homes are now open and i just feel i am in a friends house. My house was built around 1945 so the similarities are there.
My dad was a miner in the local pit, so the cottages are like my grandparents houses. There is also a fairground with rides and stalls,and a train station. Unfortunately the train no longer runs along the track.
Its definitely worth a visit.
They've just finished building a 1950's cinema. The smells as you walk around are amazing. You definitely will be exhausted after a full day of exploring but you'll be so happy you actually done it. A little piece of advice is - take a pushchair (stroller) with you for Sophia , it's a long day for little legs.... 🤗🇬🇧
No, forget the pushchair, Steve can give Sophia a piggy back. ..... 😂
The 50s cinema won't be open to summer this year
I have visited Beamish around 8 times. The first time I visited I was 8 years old. I am now 53. My mum worked beside a colleague who's parents house was transported brick by brick. Her father and grandfather were miners. I took my friend on holiday to my Nana's who lived in County Durham, when we were aged 10 or 11. We went on the tram, the steam railway, we went down the drift mine and we saw the mine ponies. We went in all the shops. There was a dentist. When I was around 22, my parents and I got our photo taken in traditional dress. The costumes were fronts only and tied at the back. My father's friend took a video of us and was so funny as we swearing shorts and t-shirts.
Worth a visit is the Royal Armouries museums at Leeds.
Needs more than a day to see everything .
A Dab is a flat fish.
There's an amazing open air museum in Scotland similar to Beamish. I visited once when I was a kid and loved it. I believe it's called The Highland folk museum.
We have something similar in Wales, its the Welsh Folk Museum, St Fagans,near Cardiff.
It features such things as old farm buildings, chapels, a blacksmith forge, miners cottages, and the latest addition is a working pub dating back to the 1830s and restored just before the first world war.
They remove these buildings stone by stone and rebuild them.
I live in beautiful Durham so have visited Beamish so many times. We are lucky to have so much on our doorstep including Beamish.
There's quite a lot of living history museums in the UK. For those interested in periods further back, there's the Highland Folk Museum near Inverness that goes back to the 1700s, I remember Morwellham Quay in Devon being really interesting but I haven't been there for well over 25 years. Stratford-upon-Avon (where Shakespeare was from) has a Tudor living history tour, but similarly it's been a long time since I went (at least 30 years). There are museums that have living history aspects (not quite as fully realized as e.g. Beamish) that cover periods right back to the Roman period and even the Iron Age.
I live 10 minutes from there. It's set in lovely countryside with great little pubs just waiting to be discovered. I first went there in the early 1970's when it was just a traditional one building museum and it's just exploded from there. Most of the buildings have been saved from demolition and rebuilt on the site as they were. The trams are great, just hop on and off when you want and they save some of the leg work. The original train station and steam locomotives are tremendous fun. I love the real early locomotives like the 'Puffing Billy' and 'Steam Elephant'. It's definitely worth at least one full day visit if not several full days!!
Aye its spot on like. Im from Durham City so seen it a lot.
I have been with my family to beamish it’s a fantastic day out l live in Scotland but it took just about two hours to get there well worth it ❤
I was born and raised near Hetton and raised in a pitman's (miner's) corrage with a coal fired range and outside lavatory - in the 1950s. I now live nearby in Weardale. A Dab is a kind of fish. Black out time was when the special heavy curtains (drapes) had to be closed to stop any light leaking out and acting as a guide for German bombers in WW2.
The Black Country Museum is fantastic! So many interesting things to see and do. 👍
Beamish is just incredible. It feels like you have stepped back in time, and if your a person who feels inside you nostalgia for that time then its hard to actually leave! There is also a pub there again pertaining to the particular time, just wonderful!! That sign said Marra not mama. Marra is a north eastern english slang for friend or partner.
A DAB is a flat fish .The usual fish used in fish and chips is COD, HADDOCK or PLAICE.
You will be able to get fish and chips ANYWHERE in the UK.
There's nothing better for kids than " hands on history" . They remember things better this way.
BLACKOUT. During WW2 all the windows in the house had to be " blacked out" so that enemy aircraft couldn't see the lights of towns from above.
I live 3 miles from Beamish and have watched this museum grow since it opened. It really is like walking back in time and well worth a visit. And in Durham itself, you have to visit Durham cathedral, a magnificent cathedral where Saint Cuthbert is entombed as well as the Venerable Bede.
We moved to England 5 years ago and live near here. It is absolutely one of our favourite places to visit and we like to go regularly to check out what's new. This video still missed several things because like she said, 1 day is just not enough.
Hi guys, I live about 40 minutes away from Beamish and you really should visit if you ever come over here, you’ll need at least 2 days to fully see the whole place properly. I’d go just for the fish n chips as they amazing, (cooked in beef dripping on a coal fired range as back in the day) dab n chips is just old slang for small fish n chips, you go into the cottages at the colliery and they have cooking days and you can try some if you want to (yummy) it’s really is a great place to visit and is getting more added every year. Like I said put aside at least 2 days to see it properly.
If you like this you’d love Ironbridge in Shropshire.
Known as the ‘Birthplace of the Industrial Revolution’ it has the world's first iron bridge, which was erected over the River Severn in 1779, and is home to the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust which consists of 10 museums throughout the Ironbridge Gorge UNESCO World Heritage Site. They collectively tell the story of the Industrial Revolution.
It is definitely worth a visit and because of its location you could combine it with a visit to the Welsh rainforest!
The blackout at night sign 13:29 was in a war time area where all lights were to be off in the night to be invisable to planes overhead dropping bombs.
I never felt old untill we went to Beamish and in one of the houses we're things I remember from my youth and also things we had in our first house in the 1960s.
Don't worry, I'm not that old (I still get ID'd when buying alcohol in the supermarket) and I grew up in a barely modernized 50s council house and the exhibit looked more modern than the house I grew up in!
We live near Beamish and my kids went 3 or 4 times a year. They still love it. We still go often. The seasonal events are great too. They have nearly finished the 1950s village and you will soon be able to stay overnight. The farm is still a working farm too
So the trams being 'attached' to the wire - it's just like a brush that contacts the cable to pickup electricity. The modern design is called a pantograph and is found on electrified trains. This is different from cablecars, where the cable is actually moving, and the tram moves by gripping the cable. (or furniculars, where the cable is actually attached - a cablecar stops by letting go of the cable, a furnicular stops by stopping the cable)
I lived in Co Durham for 12 years. Beamish is fantastic, I had an annual pass. A lot of elderly neighbours had donated old china, clocks, cabinets etc to Beamish when it was created. Nothing was built brand new, it's totally authentic.Beamish was used for filming period films, in particular Catherine Cookstown stories. Those are trams btw
I've been to the Black Country Museum. I live near Beamish - it is one of our favourite places. Both museums are amazing, but they are very different - the Black Country Museum includes a complete canal port (there were never any canals in the North East) and industries typical of the Midlands in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. It has an amazing collection of motor cars and motorcycles, and a short tramway. It had a fish and chip shop long before Beamish did! Beamish is on a much bigger site - the tramline is nearly two miles long. Beamish includes a working farm so you will see sheep, cattle, pigs and poultry at Home Farm and Pockerley. There is a fine collection of horse drawn vehicles in the yard behind the town ... and the horses to pull them live in the stables next door. Best of all: both museums have a pub and a period fairground.
I live in the North East its just s short drive away. I was at school in 1970's and had school visits there. My grandchildren now visit
Personally I’ve been to beamish hundreds of times and it never changes I always feel excited and it never bores me, I love it.
Hi from the UK. YES, we have been to Beamish it is a love day out.
We also have similar museum's all over the country, set in many different time periods. There is so much more in the UK than just London. Visitors don't realise how much they are missing.
I visited the living museum at Ironbridge. Basically, its how people used to live in Victorian era England. Although with Ironbridge, its a little further back in time as its during the Industrial Revolution. So you have coal, steel, steam, canals, revolutionising the way that farms were changed, railways (this came about during the Victorian era). Ironbridge is so named because of the iron bridge which was the first of its kind in the world. No other metal bridge had ever been built before. Please don't me feel old. I was born and raised on a 1950s housing estate. Back in those days, majority of large manufacturing firms actually provided rental housing for some of the employees. My dad, who'd served in the Royal Navy during WW2, when demobbed, got a job with Petrochemicals (later becoming Shell Chemicals). A couple of years later, he married and had a son (my older brother), he was provided a house in 1951. My mum died aged 95 two years ago, and she still lived in the same house. Many fond memories I have in those days. The first time I visited the US, we'd gone to Wisconsin. There's a similar place callded "House on the Rock". It has lots to see, and one of the sets was "Street of Yesterday". It was all brilliant to see. The trams where the camera is upstairs, is very interesting. The wooden backrests of the seating are flipped forward, so you always travel forwards, never backwards, and the pole that attaches to the electric cable, giving power for the tram to work, is swung round by the conductor, who uses a long pole with a hook, before travelling back along the track. Its only recently that Blackpool used to use these types of trams, although they had turning circles at the end of each terminal, so, again, always travelling forward. Looking at the village school, is the same as the one I went to, with open fires in each classroom. Regarding the numbers on the church to take down and rebuild, the same method was done to London Bridge when it was all taken down, and rebuilt in Arizona, all the stonework had to be numbered. Blackout Notice is the time that you do not show any lights from your property during wartime. You may, more than likely, have an enemy bomb hit it😉. You were given blackout curtains that didn't let out any light at all. There were ARP Wardens that would walk around places to make sure everything was in darkness. (Best tv series to watch to see this is "Dad's Army") It was an offence, even down to lighting up a match for a cigarette
The vehicle going from the old town was a tram, connected to the overhead cables. During WWII blackouts were enforced. This meant that windows were fitted with thick, black curtains so that no lights would show after dark, and street lights were off, because any lights would have facilitated the night time bombers to locate targets. Air Raid Wardens would patrol the streets to make sure the blackout was being observed, and knock on the door of any house where a light was visible.
I've been going to Beamish since I was very small, back when they only had the pit village. I think it's amazing that they're still adding new parts to it to this day.
I was in Beamish last year and have made regular visits on my pass. It is so big that I haven't seen all of it yet despite the number of visits. The nineteen fifties town is coming along, and the houses are open to visit. They brought back many memories for me. The Pockerly Hall is fascinating, and you could spend many hours exploring that alone. Now, they're starting to collect things from the nineteen eighties ready for the construction of a town from that period. There's a lot of land there, so I would imagine that it will become massive eventually.
I live very near to Beamish, we try to go at least once a month. It’s great for getting exercise, there’s lots of places to eat and things to see. It’s impossible to see everything in one day, there’s the Pockerley Waggonway which features replicas of the earliest steam trains including Stephensons Rocket pulling carriages which you have a ride on. The chip shop fry traditional style in beef dripping (taste amazing) we always try and get cakes from the bakery and go to the sweet shop for cherry drops or rhubarb and custards. The garage in 1900s town was used for filming for Downton Abbey. The ice creams between the 1900s town and fairground/train station are to die for.
The trams take electrical power from the overhead cable. Double decker trams still run in places like Blackpool.
Yes, they run at Blackpool at weekends and on bank holidays and when the illuminations are on, weekdays the newer modern single deck trams are used. Double decker trams are very rare now, Blackpool being the only operator of them in the UK. the only other double deck trams in operation are those operating for the Hong Kong tramway and some in Alexandria Egypt. Hong Kong is the last full time fully operational double deck tramway left operating in the world.
I live in Beamish! Not the museum but the area around it.
During winter and Christmas it's just magical.
Such a great place!
I live in East Yorkshire and have visited Beamish twice, using a pre-booked bus trip, which meant not having to queue for tickets and could walk straight in. I've been down the mine, visited all the shops and houses, took a train ride - and it's best to ride on the top of the 'electric' powered tram for the best outdoor views. I can see from your video that there are some new buildings since my last visit so thanks for sharing.
I went last year, I drove up from Kent. It was brilliant we stayed an extra day so we could do the drift mine and other bits we couldn’t squeeze in. I loved it all, the 50’s village was unexpectedly amazing to me because my childhood home was exactly like the council style houses at beamish but brand spanking new just as my grandmother would have seen it in 1951. The fish n chips are fantastic by the way, all cooked in beef dripping the old way. Fabulous place all round
If you do find yourself in birmingham at the black country museum it's worth going into the city centre to visit the back to backs. Three houses which are set in different time periods but the special thing about them is that they were two up two down houses which were split in half. The last remaining in the city the museum tells the story of poverty and normalcy spanning hundreds of years and the tour is brilliant.
Me and my wife live 15 minutes walk away from beamish, we take our dogs every weekend and it is amazing, you find something new every time you go, come over to England and we will be your tour guide lol
One of our favourite places ❤
Being from the North East, I’ve been to Beamish on numerous occasions during my life. It’s great. The staff are in costume, but I wouldn’t really describe them as actors as such. They’re not playing particular characters and are more interacting/informative/educational. One thing the video didn’t cover is the railway station. It’s worth a look around but the train ride is very short - only a few hundred metres! However Tanfield Railway is literally a 5-10 minute drive from Beamish where you can ride on steam trains. I remember as a kid there was talk of linking Tanfield up to Beamish, but it never happened.