Great video Ladies! I'm from Durham and Beamish has been part of my childhood and adulthood since forever.. It can't be overstated just how huge beamish is, every exhibit, from the buildings to the artifacts are all orignal. Buildings are taken from their locations and rebuilt brick by brick. The accent is very hard to understand, so dont worry. Even folk from other parts of the UK have difficulty in understanding our accent up here. The North of England has so many treasures. Beamish, Castles, Cathedrals, Churches, Roman forts, villages.... its a beautiful place. The locals are very very friendly too. I'd love for the two of you to visit us one day. :) x
That sort of Mine is called a drift. I started my working life as a miner and started on the what was called the screens where stones where picked out of the coal. I am 83 years old
Coming from Middlesbrough I understood everything he was talking about down the mine 😂 I have been to Beamish about 14 times in my lifetime (60) Rainy Day's and sunny days and school holiday days as well. & coming from Teesside. The ultimate pass is brilliant value 🏴 .
We took my grandad to Beamish. He's was ex miner born in the 30s. He stood in the mining village with a stunned look on his face, he said it was it had taken him back to being a child (70 years) he really loved it! It's not just the buildings with Beamish, it's the smell and sounds, the accents- it's incredible.
When we went the thing that struck me most was the smell of coal; I grew up with coal fires (born 1958) and that smell took me right back to my childhood.
I worked in a drift mine for 7 years the pub I used to have a pint in there waiting for the bus to take me to visit my family at stanley the pub was near the bus station at bishop aukland I'm 87 now it's a fantastic museum 😂
Thank you for highlighting Beamish. It shows that there is so much more to the UK than London. Beamish is still expanding, a 1950’s area has just opened. The garage was featured in Downton Abbey, as was some of the 1900's town. While there, go a bit farther north and see Alnwick castle and the Alnwick Gardens, with the new Lillidorei play park for children.
London is just an overpriced city..full of everyone rushing around! I do love London because of its history etc but it's become so expensive! The uk has amazing citys far more beautiful than London ....Edinburgh, Glasgow , Manchester they are city's I would visit over London ..unfortunately so many foreign visitors think London is England and they don't venture out of it ...these videos made by Natasha and Debbie are excellent and give incite of the uk out side of just London ! ..❤❤
@@samanthaobertelle4966 Blists Hill is another great museum. You change your modern money for Victorian pennies and shillings so you can but things in the Victorian shops.There are candle makers, bakers, sweet shops and more. It is near the Ironbridge Gorge' where the world's first iron bridge still stands. If you Google both, you can see what both are like. York Castle Museum is another, similar museum, with old streets exactly as they were. There is also Dick Turpin's jail cell, the Railway Museum and the Minster itself. Of course, The Shambles is well worth seeing too in York. Scotland has Duncarron Medieval Village and fort, as well as the Skara Brae real neolithic village on Orkney.
I’m from Newcastle and have been to Beamish countless times over the years since I was a kid. It’s great. The 1950s village is now open. Re the bloke in the mine, I did find it hard to hear what he was saying but I think it’s more down to the audio as his accent like my own is a North Eastern one (albeit more of a Mackem accent rather than my Geordie accent). The railway at Beamish is disappointingly very short, but there’s actually a longer steam railway really close by about 10 minutes away called Tanfield Railway. I remember there being talk when I was a kid of linking the two together but it’s never quite happened. But it’s worth a visit if you want to experience a ride on a steam railway whilst in the area.
We think we have found the neatest, most interesting, museum EVER! Beamish in County Durham is UNBELIEVABLE! We are completely in love and cannot wait to go visit!! This video shows A LOT! What an amazing place full of so much to see and do! This is now on our top list of attractions when we come to the United Kingdom! Let us know if you have been. We know you will enjoy this episode! We had SO MUCH FUN watching & learning. Thank you SO much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button.
I enjoyed the beamish video you reaction I have actually been to beamish with my partner and both of our carers as we have disability and your channel is incredible
Hey ladies, I went to Beamish on a school outing to learn about history when I was 9, and even then some 40 years ago it was very interesting too see. It’s a day outing, alittle expensive in the gift shop and cafe there but well worth a visit. I think you would also appreciate the castles in Northumberland and a trip to Alnwick gardens.
Hi ladies, I live about 30 mins away from Beamish along the County Durham coast and I take my family there about once a month. The 1950's town is all up and running now, which is fantastic. It was the miners dialect, which is known as pitmatic and the people who speak it are known colloquially as pityackers. ( most people unfamiliar with the region can't distinguish it to much from Geordie) my dad has the same 'accent' and it's still really strong. I get so much enjoyment watching him and my husband, (who is from Seattle) try and work out what each other are saying. Married 10 years and I still have to translate. Durham and the north east have so much to offer. Another place you should really check out is Vindolanda Roman Fort and Hadrians wall.
The museum has grown since this video, yes a ticket still lasts a year. The fifties part is now open with a hair dressers where Debbie could work. They have started on a sixties area. Most of the buildings in the museum are from my local area and you see the buildings taken down brick by brick each numbered so the building can be completely rebuilt exactly.
It's the Durham dialect, In the pit areas in the northeast of England the dialect is very strong if you speak to the man in the mine or anyone who has a strong dialect as he had he will realize you don't understand him he will slow his speech down a little to make it more understandable for you, we all do it,😂 I don't live far from Bemish but in a large town, I do understand him but do not speak quite the same, it's still a form of his dialect. You will find the North East people very friendly, chatty, and welcoming in nature. Beamish is a wonderful example of the old northeast of England, many of the cottages come from the old villages around the area, they would take them down brick by brick and rebuild them exactly the same in the museum. Fish and Chips are great there, and there is an old-fashioned sweet shop selling confectionaries of the time. I have to say I was unable to go all the way down the pit shaft either, I'm more than uncomfortable in very small places.
I don't think it is mentioned but EVERY BUILDING on the Beamish site was painstakingly taken down from it's original site and transported and rebuilt brick by brick in the museum!! So much to see on site you need a full day to enjoy it all!
Daveys fried fish used to be my local chip shop. Literally!! The museum took the coal fired range from Daveys chip shop in Winlaton Mill and moved it to use at beamish museum. Fish and chips cooked in beef dripping are so so much tastier than those cooked in vegetable oils 😊
I have to agree about fish and chips in beef dripping. As a local lad I know exactly where the range came from, just up the street from Land of Oak and Iron, right?. I would encourage any visitors to the UK to get out of London and explore what the North East has to offer.
Went to Beamish as a Kid Back in 1980's, best bit was the shop with the money shuttle system, that was insanely cool and ingenious! Also found some coal at the mineshaft with Fools gold embedded that I have in a box still almost 35 years later :) Edit: I forgot.. the Blacksmith that was there shoeing a horse was told he worked fast by a girl in my class, he said "Wait there for me, I'll make you something.." Grabs a bar from the fire split it, twisted the split ends and shaped a head and neck then cut the whole thing off the end of the bar into a bucket of oil too cool it. Lifted it from the bucket washed it and handed her an AMAZING Rams head in blackened steel. Amazing place to visit :)
As I grew up about 10 miles away from Beamish I remember it from the early days. A lot of demolition and modernisation was going on in the 70’s and people were concerned about the amount of old buildings etc being pulled down so the idea of Beamish was created. I remember the original farm house and tour included seeing a working bee hive through panes of glass in the old house along with old costumes from farming. A lot of development has continued in the museum and years later I took my husband to see it and was amazed how so much improvement was continuing. It won a world heritage award. If you go to the sweet shop you need to get some “Black bullets” large round mint sweets a tradition of the North East. Workmen liked them strong to take away the dust and air pollution from heavy industry in the mines shipyards and engineering works. It’s a must going to the North East 👍👍
yeah black bullet sweets were also popular with old miner i once new over in the north west, also a coal mining & iron ore & lead mining area, but even though it allways said black bullets on the sweet jar label. the old ex-miner,s allways called them mint balls, bought in a qauter which is 4oz
I went to beamish open air museum many years ago. When I went I saw a horse getting shoed, saw how the original post office worked, saw hard candy being made, had a meal & learned about the origins of surnames. It’s DEFINITELY a great day out for adults or families.
If you do come over to see and see the Black Country Museum, take drive to Ironbridge in Shropshire. This is the home of the world’s first ironbridge which still stands today. The Industrial Revolution started right there and there’s a museum there to. Also worth doing the Severn Valley Steam train Railway.
County Durham itself is well recommended. Lots of things there. A castle, a grand museum with art and antiques, a deer park and a cathedral to name a few things
I visited Beamish last year and it is as splendid as everyone says. It is not "museumized" with barriers and labels and information boards - you actually feel as if you are wandering into genuine homes and shops etc. And once or twice, when in a quiet spot away from other people, I had the sudden magical feeling of being transported back in time. Once was walking up from the railway station when I heard the fairground organ music drifting across the fields. The tune was that popular one of around 1900 "The Soldiers of the Queen". The only things missing were the smells of the period: town gas, coal smoke, horse dung and black twist tobacco!
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thank goodness someone has highlighted something outside of London as the UK as a whole has so much more to offer and many people will and do miss out on.
Hey! Glad you enjoyed the video. I actually live in the village of Beamish 10 mins from the museum. If you're ever over in the UK you are welcome to stay over and visit the museum.
I can remember the pit ponies in the fields every summer in the early 1960s we used to go and feed them carrots and apples and pet them they were so sweet and gentle the Pit men looked after them really well and they had their eyes covered when they first came up into the light. It’s a long time ago now but this is what I remember x
Interesting recollections, glad the pit ponies got to see the outside world again. Sadly, up here in Cheshire, up to the 1920's, the pit ponies working in the salt mines never returned to the surface. The mine shafts were very narrow and the ponies were taken down as foals. They were well looked after, and it was a very safe and clean environment, but once fully grown a return to the surface was impossible. Sad but true.
@@andycap6786 oh that’s sad never seeing the sun I hated it when they went down again, they were brought up because the mine closed for two weeks every august for holidays so no one to look after them.
Beamish is a fantastic place to visit, the 1950's area is now open. The Theatre used to be about 1 mile away from my house, I think it's due for completion next year. Durham City is about 8 miles from Beamish and well worth a visit, it's a beautiful city with some very old buildings. Not a lot of Americans know about these places in fact the whole of the North East is often overlooked and it's a shame as there is a lot of history up here.
@@SiobhanHfuhruhurr-qe1ul Exactly. It happens here too. Edinburgh is overcrowded with tourists who think if they do the Royal Mile, they cover the castle and Holyroodhouse, and that's it! Glasgow is a Beautiful City too- home to the Burrell Collection and a wonderful museum of Transport. I'm a bit biased there, as a number of ships connected with my Grampa are there -in model form! Perth, Inverness, Fort William, Skye, -the East Neuk of Fife, and many other places are all worth visiting.
I live not too far from Beamish so have visited several times over the years and I can vouch for it being a great day(s) out no matter how many times you go. I first went with my school in the early 1970's when it was just starting out. There wasn't much there apart from the main hall which was used as a traditional museum and some old farm buildings and lots of open space. Just about everything you see now has been built from scratch. Whenever an old building was due for demolition in the North East, Beamish would swoop in and have it dismantled brick by brick and re-erected at Beamish just as it would have been back in it's heyday! It's a brilliant testament to the insight, planning and determination of it's guardians over the years.
Another place in the UK you'd probably love to visit is Cragside; *massive* Victorian mansion, former home of William Armstrong (of Armstrong & Whitworth fame), and the first house in the world to be lit by electricity.
Cragside is an amazing place, however, it was the first house in the world to be lit by hydroelectric electricity, from turbines installed by Lord Armstrong. Back in the days when Tyneside was effectively the World's Silicon Valley, driving engineering and innovation.
I love Beamish and I was recently there, couple of months ago and they have part of the 1950 village built there is a fish and chip, shop barber/hairdresser, cafe/soda shop, house and community centre. They are in the process of building a cinema. I will be going back to beamish later in the year to see how they got on with the 1950s village. Also I have videos up on my channel from beamish
👋 girls. As an Aussie I can say that Beamish was one of the most cool days out in the UK. Loved that it was a “living” museum with guides and people wearing period costumes and we got to check out the inside of cottages, ride on the various vehicles, and wander around the shops with children in period clothes. We loved Beamish and the day out with six of my husband’s British relatives. The dialects 🤣🤣🤣 my husband after 50+ years in Australia can’t understand everything he hears and has to ask me … because of course I have been listening to him every day for over 50 years and it sounds normal to me 😂😂😂 You should also check out a barge tour of the Thames from Redding down river past Windsor and back again over a 6 day period going navigating the lochs. It was the most memorable holiday EVER with our British relatives. We actually puttered alongside the University rowing races at Henley with toffs strolling and sailing in huge private yachts, tiny steam powered two man wooden boats, and an abundance of males and females in white linen trousers, straw hats and blazers. An unexpected bonus to our trip was a fully manned New Zealand Māori war boat coming around a bend chanting as they stroked … the sight of this landed us on a sand bank and my son had to go overboard to push us off. Love your arm chair touring. ❤️
There are a number of 'Living Museums' in the UK. They cover pretty much all eras from Anglo Saxon to modern day. Plenty oy of Steam Train Museums all over. North York Moors being one of the most known. It has a 25 mile single track with a umber of stations. Runs from Pickering to Whitby, where it intersects with the modern rail network.
Yep! I remember going on a school trip to a Roman living museum in year 3! It was my favourite school trip that we went on as we got to dress up as little romans with these fake spears 😊😆 Loved it!
Another incredible place to visit is the Weald and Downland museum. They have medieval and tudor houses, a market building, shops, workshops...its incredible. You can go into houses built in the 14th and 15th centuries. They save these buildings and move them brick by brick to the museum. We were there for hours and still didn't see everything. Its also where they film 'The repair shop' tv programme if youve ever heard of it
Agreed. Amberley working museum near Arundel, and not too far from the Weald and Downland, is also worth a visit especially for it’s working buses and trains.
I live within 20 miles from Beamish museum and have visited it many times over the years. It is known as a living museum and shows life as it was in different time periods in history. An amazing place to visit and very accessible to all. I worked for a major food retailer in this area (North East Co-operative Society) and one of our largest stores in Annfield Plain, County Durham was due to be replaced by a larger more modern store. Beamish museum approached the Co-operative the owner of the store with a proposal to dismantle the store and rebuild it brick by brick into Beamish. It now features as the Co-op store in the town from the 1920s.
As I understand it, the buildings are dismantled piece by piece/brick by brick in their original location, then rebuilt brick by brick when it gets to Beamish. All I can say is, it's worth all the hard work. Hat well and truly off to the boys and girls who do all the dismantling and rebuilding.
That's exactly what they do, all are genuine old buildings meticulously disassembled then rebuilt at beamish. I can remember some from the local towns being done.
If you look closely at the school, you will find numbers on the bricks/stone from when it was broken down and moved. It was like a kit, and some of the bricks were put in facing the wrong way.
You are right most of the buildings were moved brick by brick but not all thre outsides are totally accurate the pub in the old 1900 village was in the town of Bishop Auckland, I used to go into the side entrance for pop (soda) and crisps as a young child and there was no stables as now I think the rest is correct it was also next to the courthouse.
We’ve just spent Sunday Father’s Day with my 96 year old mother in law at the pit village watching the brass band competition we took a picnic and had an amazing day as a family …
There are films of pit ponies during their 2 weeks holiday running around and pleasure doesn’t begin to describe it. The miners loved them, and the canaries they used to detect poison gas
All the buildings you see here are original buildings, pulled down brick by brick, stone by stone and rebuilt at Beamish. About 4 years ago a house just outside my village was moved to Beamish, that one was called Spains Farm and it is overlooking the Pit Village. The 1950's Village is now open but they are currently adding to it. EVERYTHING you see is original, not made to look original. It is an amazing place, I have been many times and never get tired of it. It is best to get there at the latest 10am because there is so much to see.
I visited a couple of times, it was amazing. My dad was born in Easington, in County Durham. He went into the mines when he left school. I think some of the pits went under the North Sea. In early times I think the miners had to pay for their own candles and to have their picks sharpened. It was a really hard life. My dad and his brothers went home covered in coal dust and had to share a tin bath, the first one in was lucky, the water was still clean. Thanks girls for a great video. I love nostalgia.
My mum's family were from the same area. The mines did run under the sea. The waste coal, (slack), was taken out to sea and dumped, it then washed up on the beach and was gathered up, dried and used in the home. Beamish museum is only a few miles from Washington CD, ( County Durham).
Yes your right , I lived in Easington and worked down the mine ,the mine tunnels are miles out at sea ,we use to travel in the locomotive train for a half hour to get to coal faces.
Jam and coconut sponge is typical school dinner 'afters' from my youth: 1960s and early 1970s.. That and 'gypsy tart'. Hard to find the recipe for that on the internet, for some reason... ;-)
You're welcome to visit. We live around 18 miles from Beamish and have taken the family a few times, I can say honestly say you will love it but do it over a couple days as there's so much to see and do.
Many, many years ago I was on school trip to Beamish when they were setting up the exhibits in the Pit Head. It wasn't actually open yet but the ex miner who was helping set it up let about 8 of us and our Maths teacher in and spent a couple of hours explaining everything. It was the highlight of the whole trip and something I've never forgotten. Being told what things were really like, by someone who lived it is the best learning experience you can have.
Beamish is the best place on the planet. Me and my mam have the annual pass and we honestly go about once a month, there's too much to get round in a day. The best bit is it's all local history so the trams and busses that you see going round are ones that would actually have run in the local area. A lot of the buildings are original too and have been dismantled and rebuilt brick for brick at the museum. I'm pretty sure some of them have photos in of the actual people who lived there. I could write you an essay about all the amazing things there. They're also constantly switching stuff around so it's never 100% the same each time we go.
When I was a little boy, dad and I would go to Woolworth's on Saturday mornings, and he would buy a big bag of broken biscuits. You never knew what you would get but sometimes you would get jammy ones or creamy ones and even some chocolate covered ones.🙂
Beamish is too, too much to do in a day. It is, I think, more of a holiday destination in itself! Thanks for showing, and commenting, on the video. The company I used to work for had a staff welfare section, they organised events of all kinds fir the workforce and their families. We used to go from Edinburgh to Beamish on tour coaches, about every three years; sadly that company no longer trades, but my memories live on. This video really, really took me back to happy times.
We have done it in a day but my advice to you as you are unable to visit all the time is a two day ting at least. There are loads of things in Durham and surrounding area
Totally agree I live close to Beamish and have been many times since the mid 70's. Anybody going for the first time would struggle to see everything and appreciate the place in one day
I live in Newcastle and I remember visiting when Beamish first opened. We have taken our kids and now they take theirs. I’ve seen the museum grow over the decades and looking forward to seeing the 1950s section. Don’t be put off the fish and chips cooked in beef fat are delicious, that’s how I remember them as a child, completely different taste and a 100% better than the way they cook fish and chips now. Hope you get a chance to visit you won’t be disappointed
The 1950s town is open, I've just came back from there about 2hrs ago, I live like 10mins away from it, they are in development of a Cinema. We played mini golf aswell, you can if you want to play bowls aswell, and there is a park there for kids aswell
I'm from Devon, England, UK. The Jam and coconut sponge I had these in our School dinners one day a week,at our Infant/Primary School years reception then years 1- 6 ages 5-11 in the mid 1990s until the early 2000s for dessert. It was always served with custard. we also had pineapple crumble with custard and chocolate concrete a shortbread with cocoa powder was added to the mix and it was dusted on the top with with caster sugar. It was always served with either strawberry, raspberry or chocolate custard which were all made from blancmange mix packets served as custard. They all tasted amazing!
Ironbridge Gorge open air museum (Blists Hill) in Shropshire is well worth a visit. For some reason I went about 4 times as a kid (we lived in Norfolk and then London 🤷🏻♀️🤣) and it left me with a lifelong obsession with the Victorians. It's a fascinating and beautiful place.
Some of my favourite memories as a kid were made at Beamish. My dad is from Newcastle so I used to spend summers and school holidays there, I lost count how many times I went to Beamish, it never gets old
Thank you for a most informative and interesting video. I had vaguely heard of Beamish, but that's about all. I schooled in England for six years and have visited dozens of times, have three sons currently studying or working in the UK. None of us put Beamish on our respective bucket lists - until now!! Thanks.
This reminds me of St. Fagans National Museum of History in Cardiff and a short drive outside Cardiff is the Big Pit National Coal Museum, I like this kind of museum and have fond memories from school trips
he was speaking a mixture of Pitmatic and Geordie as I said I live 15 mins away from this Museum and sometimes I still have problems understanding some of the older Actors in the Museum as they speak in a broader accent than the younger ones, The Open Cast Mine went deeper when I was younger but the deeper levels have been walled off for safety after the tunnels started to flood and get weaker over time
Wow, iv bin watching your vids for ages and its quite surreal you're looking into Beamish: a place iv been every year for 36years and puts NorthEast England on the map. Thank you for loving Britain!
This place is really fantastic: everything is authentic brought hera and rebuil. The pub is actually from my home town" the Sun inn. Sometimes there are school visits where all the kids are ib period costumes. I hear the 50's town is open and you can actually get a 50's haircut/style at the barber's shop. There is a really cool fish and chip there too. It is worth a trip. For many British people it iis going back to how their parents, grandparents lived. I remember the first time I went I remember loads of people saying things like "we or grandma had one of those/ I remember those. I hope you can make it there and tje north east in general. 😀
I had to smile at the firt thing we saw, a tram advertising Rington's Tea. My mother grew up in County Durham and once told me that her first boyfriend worked as a delivery man for Rington's Tea. :) I've never been to the museum my self. It looks amazing. So many memories for me. My grandfather worked with pit ponies., in the coal mines. He lost an eye and his hearing down the mines. The Geordie/North East accent is not easy. I grew up with it so know it well. Steam engines were invented in that area. I should point out that 1950s Britian was nothing like 1950s in the US. For us it was post-war living, a lot of poverty and shortages. No modern buildings, bombed area were still evident; I grew up i the 40s and 50s and it wasn't a lot of fun. Oh I remember buying broken biscuits cheap! Now you get them broken but no cheaper. Modern packaging! Oh! and I've used a printing press, when I did a print making course at college. :) Lived on a small farm like that too when I was small.
we used to have a proper coffee shop in Bromley high street - they didn't make coffee they roasted and ground their own for sale. The smell of that still lingers with me and it's been probably 30 plus years since they went out of business
I live near Beamish and used to work in TV and it always amused/irritated us when location managers from out of the area - usually London - told us about Beamish as if it was something they had just discovered. 😂
Anyone who loved the Catherine Cookson TV adaptations will recognise Beamish. I remember Claire Skinner in the The Wingless Bird. Her character had a sweetshop.
I'm from a Pit village Inn the North East I was born here & 55 Years later still live here, I always say I'm proud to have Pit Blood in my body because all my family, Ancesters both sides have been Pit Men. When they stopt using Pit Ponys down the Mines most of the Ponys were blind or had light sensitive eyes when the brought them all up from under ground for good . All the Ponys were sent to farms or people with land to live out the restnof there lives. Also I don't know who knows this, many many many years ago more pre war they took caged Canereys down the mine to detect gas. It was so cruel because as we know gas is called the silent killer because it's low or no smell so whenmthey took those poor Canerys down the Mines ( pits ) if the Canerys died it ment there was gas present so they could get the pit men out. Thank God for Animal Charitys like the .R.S.P.C.A. or .P.D.S.A. that I think helped stop this Barbarick act
Loved seeing this. I live about a 30 minute drive from Beamish and go back every few years as it's always evolving. The 1st time I visited as a kid there was probably a quarter of what's there now, you parked in a field and the had a portacabin at the entry...I won't say how long ago that was 😂 The pub in the main town was taken down brick by brick from my home town and rebuilt there, and you can still buy a pint in it. If you go I'd advise starting early in the town. You'll get in the shops easier and the sweet shop does demonstrations (you can always circle back to see the rest of it later). You can then spread out around the site. Definitely need a minimum of a full day. It's also very close to Durham, the old cathedral city, which I think you've seen on another video. You could spend your whole stay in the North East and not get board, Alnwick, Raby Castle, Bowes Museum, Sea Houses, Bamburgh, Holy Island, Hexham, the list goes on.
Loved this video. I haven't been for ages. The coop. The shop my dad remembers it when he was little. They moved it brick by brick to the museum and he loves going back. Such a lovely place and I am lucky to live so close .
Just up the road from us, two things dismantled in my home town of Hetton Le Hole was the miners houses formally Francis Street and the Band Hall from South Market street. Both dismantled brick by brick and rebuilt on site at Beamish
The UK has a bunch of great industrial/heritage museums. The national railway museum got mentioned in this video, would highly recommend, that and the Ffestiniog/Welsh highland railways
St Fagans open air museum, on the outskirts of Cardiff 🏴, and Big Pit Museum in Blaenavon are both great, and being wales, are both free (parking is charged, but is extremely reasonable/normal parking prices for the UK).
It's really quite amazing how many historically interesting things there are in the UK. For example we visited Cruachan power station - you wouldn't expect that to be interesting just from the sound of it, but learning about things like how it's one of 7 power stations around the UK that can be used to kick start the national grid in the event of a complete UK wide outage, or how it's one of several that are used specifically to provide extra power to the grid for ad breaks in Corrie when it's known people will go and boil their kettles. Fascinating stuff.
I took my Grandson who was 10 years old at the time, and told him we were travelling back in a time machine to when my grandad was a kid, and he was not looking forward to spending a day at a museum, He came away from the place amazed at how people lived a hundred years ago and actually thanked me for the trip and how much he had enjoyed looking back in history. Winner!
The coolest thing about Beamish is that the buildings are not reproductions, they are actual buildings from that period that have been dismantled and moved to Beamish and reassembled in situ. That's why they are so accurate, they are the real thing!
We visited this week after many years,the 50's town is partially complete..hair salon and chip shop. They're building a toy shop from my town of middlesbrough:)
I remember going to Beamish on a school trip in the early 1970’s. The museum has grown immensely. I also attended a concert at the hall around the same time.
I grew up in the north east of England and Beamish was somewhere that as a family we visited at least twice a year. There is so many wonderful and interesting places up north.
Beamish is quite close to Newcastle, so they have Geordie accents, which might explain why you can't understand the accent! Great video. Beamish was/is a prime location for school trips in the region so it was a staple of my childhood. Glad to see it's still so popular
What a brilliant Museum, so many interesting things to check out! It reminds me very much of a place here in Christchurch, New Zealand called Ferrymead Heritage Park. Thanks so much, I really enjoyed this! Love to you both ❤
My first visit to Beamish was in 1979 been there a few times since would to see the 1950s as that was my era met my husband in 1955 married 1957 This area of uk is beautiful Alnwick & Bamburgh Castles in same area Enjoy girlsx
I'm from North Durham and Beamish is on my doorstep.. its a great representation of old England i went there as a child and the classroom part was interactive and i got a taste of how it was back then (really strict) my grandmother told me a story of how they wanted everyone to be right handed back in her day, but she was left handed so they made her sit on her left hand to make her write right handed
There's several living museums in the UK. A VERY popular UK show "The Repair Shop" is filmed at the Weald and Downland Living Museum . Theres a 24 minute video on here by the MemorySeekers "Rural Village Life in England - Weald & Downland Living Museum"
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow meh that's lame. You promoting their videos is hardly any different to the whole concept of sharing videos! Seems silly. Unfortunately the other videos on here of that place are either small clips or way too long walkarounds
Beamish is incredible. Was lucky enough to grow up nearby and I've been back many times over the years. Keeps getting bigger and better. Amazing place.
I visited this place a number of years ago with my late mother and we both really enjoyed our day but it’s amazing how much they have added during those years …. I really want to go back for another visit as it looks like an incredible experience 😊
Thanks for bringing some attention to Beamish! I live a 2 minute drive down the road, it's somewhere I've visited since I was young and still enjoy today.
You two are wonderful. I love your videos. I am originally from London; living in Suffolk since 2007. But, I just moved to live with my partner, Eric, in Strasbourg, France! My cousin lives in Hartlepool and she just visited this museum. The 1950's town is now up and running and she absolutely LOVED it. So, do go! Natasha, you will get your 1950's fix. :-) Love to you both and best wishes. Deano, now in France.
We visited this museum last year, there is so much to do, our favourite place was the place where you could get lunch, Fish & Chips done in the real kitchen of the day, it was the colliery, with small houses and a full coal mine, all these houses and items in the houses, were transported, a whole shop taken brick by brick and rebuilt at the Beamish Museum, its a fantastic place to visit. Many of the staff dress in the period and will advise you of their daily tasks, its a fab place.
Great video Ladies! I'm from Durham and Beamish has been part of my childhood and adulthood since forever.. It can't be overstated just how huge beamish is, every exhibit, from the buildings to the artifacts are all orignal. Buildings are taken from their locations and rebuilt brick by brick. The accent is very hard to understand, so dont worry. Even folk from other parts of the UK have difficulty in understanding our accent up here. The North of England has so many treasures. Beamish, Castles, Cathedrals, Churches, Roman forts, villages.... its a beautiful place. The locals are very very friendly too. I'd love for the two of you to visit us one day. :) x
That sort of Mine is called a drift. I started my working life as a miner and started on the what was called the screens where stones where picked out of the coal. I am 83 years old
Coming from Middlesbrough
I understood everything he was talking about down the mine 😂
I have been to Beamish about 14 times in my lifetime (60)
Rainy Day's and sunny days and school holiday days as well. & coming from Teesside. The ultimate pass is brilliant value 🏴 .
We took my grandad to Beamish. He's was ex miner born in the 30s. He stood in the mining village with a stunned look on his face, he said it was it had taken him back to being a child (70 years) he really loved it!
It's not just the buildings with Beamish, it's the smell and sounds, the accents- it's incredible.
When we went the thing that struck me most was the smell of coal; I grew up with coal fires (born 1958) and that smell took me right back to my childhood.
I worked in a drift mine for 7 years the pub I used to have a pint in there waiting for the bus to take me to visit my family at stanley the pub was near the bus station at bishop aukland I'm 87 now it's a fantastic museum 😂
Thank you for highlighting Beamish. It shows that there is so much more to the UK than London. Beamish is still expanding, a 1950’s area has just opened. The garage was featured in Downton Abbey, as was some of the 1900's town. While there, go a bit farther north and see Alnwick castle and the Alnwick Gardens, with the new Lillidorei play park for children.
Lilidorei not just for children. My nearly 7O yr old husband had a great time on the play structure
Alnwick Castle is well worth a visit. I loved the cascade, & the Poison Garden
London is just an overpriced city..full of everyone rushing around! I do love London because of its history etc but it's become so expensive! The uk has amazing citys far more beautiful than London ....Edinburgh, Glasgow , Manchester they are city's I would visit over London ..unfortunately so many foreign visitors think London is England and they don't venture out of it ...these videos made by Natasha and Debbie are excellent and give incite of the uk out side of just London ! ..❤❤
@@samanthaobertelle4966 Blists Hill is another great museum. You change your modern money for Victorian pennies and shillings so you can but things in the Victorian shops.There are candle makers, bakers, sweet shops and more. It is near the Ironbridge Gorge' where the world's first iron bridge still stands. If you Google both, you can see what both are like. York Castle Museum is another, similar museum, with old streets exactly as they were. There is also Dick Turpin's jail cell, the Railway Museum and the Minster itself. Of course, The Shambles is well worth seeing too in York. Scotland has Duncarron Medieval Village and fort, as well as the Skara Brae real neolithic village on Orkney.
I’m from Newcastle and have been to Beamish countless times over the years since I was a kid. It’s great. The 1950s village is now open. Re the bloke in the mine, I did find it hard to hear what he was saying but I think it’s more down to the audio as his accent like my own is a North Eastern one (albeit more of a Mackem accent rather than my Geordie accent).
The railway at Beamish is disappointingly very short, but there’s actually a longer steam railway really close by about 10 minutes away called Tanfield Railway. I remember there being talk when I was a kid of linking the two together but it’s never quite happened. But it’s worth a visit if you want to experience a ride on a steam railway whilst in the area.
We think we have found the neatest, most interesting, museum EVER! Beamish in County Durham is UNBELIEVABLE! We are completely in love and cannot wait to go visit!! This video shows A LOT! What an amazing place full of so much to see and do! This is now on our top list of attractions when we come to the United Kingdom! Let us know if you have been. We know you will enjoy this episode! We had SO MUCH FUN watching & learning. Thank you SO much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button.
I went there about 40 years ago. It was a grand day out. It's bigger and better than ever now. X
I enjoyed the beamish video you reaction I have actually been to beamish with my partner and both of our carers as we have disability and your channel is incredible
I have been subscribed to your channel since February this year and I have enjoyed watching every content you put out so thank you natasha and Debbie
Hey ladies, I went to Beamish on a school outing to learn about history when I was 9, and even then some 40 years ago it was very interesting too see. It’s a day outing, alittle expensive in the gift shop and cafe there but well worth a visit. I think you would also appreciate the castles in Northumberland and a trip to Alnwick gardens.
Hi ladies, I live about 30 mins away from Beamish along the County Durham coast and I take my family there about once a month. The 1950's town is all up and running now, which is fantastic. It was the miners dialect, which is known as pitmatic and the people who speak it are known colloquially as pityackers. ( most people unfamiliar with the region can't distinguish it to much from Geordie) my dad has the same 'accent' and it's still really strong. I get so much enjoyment watching him and my husband, (who is from Seattle) try and work out what each other are saying. Married 10 years and I still have to translate. Durham and the north east have so much to offer. Another place you should really check out is Vindolanda Roman Fort and Hadrians wall.
The museum has grown since this video, yes a ticket still lasts a year. The fifties part is now open with a hair dressers where Debbie could work. They have started on a sixties area. Most of the buildings in the museum are from my local area and you see the buildings taken down brick by brick each numbered so the building can be completely rebuilt exactly.
It's the Durham dialect, In the pit areas in the northeast of England the dialect is very strong if you speak to the man in the mine or anyone who has a strong dialect as he had he will realize you don't understand him he will slow his speech down a little to make it more understandable for you, we all do it,😂 I don't live far from Bemish but in a large town, I do understand him but do not speak quite the same, it's still a form of his dialect. You will find the North East people very friendly, chatty, and welcoming in nature. Beamish is a wonderful example of the old northeast of England, many of the cottages come from the old villages around the area, they would take them down brick by brick and rebuild them exactly the same in the museum. Fish and Chips are great there, and there is an old-fashioned sweet shop selling confectionaries of the time. I have to say I was unable to go all the way down the pit shaft either, I'm more than uncomfortable in very small places.
I don't think it is mentioned but EVERY BUILDING on the Beamish site was painstakingly taken down from it's original site and transported and rebuilt brick by brick in the museum!! So much to see on site you need a full day to enjoy it all!
I'm from Bishop Auckland where the pub there came from xxx
When my American friends visited England a few years ago, I took them to see Beamish and they absolutely loved it . . . highly recommended.
Daveys fried fish used to be my local chip shop. Literally!! The museum took the coal fired range from Daveys chip shop in Winlaton Mill and moved it to use at beamish museum. Fish and chips cooked in beef dripping are so so much tastier than those cooked in vegetable oils 😊
I have to agree about fish and chips in beef dripping. As a local lad I know exactly where the range came from, just up the street from Land of Oak and Iron, right?. I would encourage any visitors to the UK to get out of London and explore what the North East has to offer.
A visit to Beamish, Newcastle, Durham and Northumberland is a must! The North east is a gem often missed by distraction to London.
Going to the UK in October (provided my wife stays well) and you have just found for me an absolute must place to visit!!! WOW ! JUST WOW!
Hope you manage to visit and your wife stays well. You will love it"
As I originated in the Black Country but lived in Newcastle for 6 years, I have been able to visit both museums. We are very lucky to have them.
Went to Beamish as a Kid Back in 1980's, best bit was the shop with the money shuttle system, that was insanely cool and ingenious!
Also found some coal at the mineshaft with Fools gold embedded that I have in a box still almost 35 years later :)
Edit: I forgot.. the Blacksmith that was there shoeing a horse was told he worked fast by a girl in my class, he said "Wait there for me, I'll make you something.."
Grabs a bar from the fire split it, twisted the split ends and shaped a head and neck then cut the whole thing off the end of the bar into a bucket of oil too cool it.
Lifted it from the bucket washed it and handed her an AMAZING Rams head in blackened steel.
Amazing place to visit :)
As I grew up about 10 miles away from Beamish I remember it from the early days. A lot of demolition and modernisation was going on in the 70’s and people were concerned about the amount of old buildings etc being pulled down so the idea of Beamish was created. I remember the original farm house and tour included seeing a working bee hive through panes of glass in the old house along with old costumes from farming. A lot of development has continued in the museum and years later I took my husband to see it and was amazed how so much improvement was continuing. It won a world heritage award. If you go to the sweet shop you need to get some “Black bullets” large round mint sweets a tradition of the North East. Workmen liked them strong to take away the dust and air pollution from heavy industry in the mines shipyards and engineering works. It’s a must going to the North East 👍👍
yeah black bullet sweets were also popular with old miner i once new over in the north west, also a coal mining & iron ore & lead mining area, but even though it allways said black bullets on the sweet jar label. the old ex-miner,s allways called them mint balls, bought in a qauter which is 4oz
I went to beamish open air museum many years ago. When I went I saw a horse getting shoed, saw how the original post office worked, saw hard candy being made, had a meal & learned about the origins of surnames. It’s DEFINITELY a great day out for adults or families.
If you do come over to see and see the Black Country Museum, take drive to Ironbridge in Shropshire. This is the home of the world’s first ironbridge which still stands today. The Industrial Revolution started right there and there’s a museum there to. Also worth doing the Severn Valley Steam train Railway.
All must do things.
Ironbridge is beautiful to visit!
@@petebartlett2229 it is Pete. A very picturesque part of Shropshire.
+ Ironbridge (birthplace of industrial revolution) has a living Victorian Town on Blists Hill, where you can also buy proper 'beef fat' chips 🤤
Plus if you are near Birmingham and the back county you would enjoy the Severn Valley railway.
County Durham itself is well recommended. Lots of things there. A castle, a grand museum with art and antiques, a deer park and a cathedral to name a few things
Going to the castle early July. I can’t wait
That's just in Durham city
Its a great County but then again I am biased as its my home county. It had lots of castles not just one.
@@peterosullivan9942 totally agree but i am a local lad as well so just a little bit bias.
I visited Beamish last year and it is as splendid as everyone says. It is not "museumized" with barriers and labels and information boards - you actually feel as if you are wandering into genuine homes and shops etc. And once or twice, when in a quiet spot away from other people, I had the sudden magical feeling of being transported back in time. Once was walking up from the railway station when I heard the fairground organ music drifting across the fields. The tune was that popular one of around 1900 "The Soldiers of the Queen". The only things missing were the smells of the period: town gas, coal smoke, horse dung and black twist tobacco!
thank goodness someone has highlighted something outside of London as the UK as a whole has so much more to offer and many people will and do miss out on.
Hey! Glad you enjoyed the video. I actually live in the village of Beamish 10 mins from the museum. If you're ever over in the UK you are welcome to stay over and visit the museum.
I can remember the pit ponies in the fields every summer in the early 1960s we used to go and feed them carrots and apples and pet them they were so sweet and gentle the Pit men looked after them really well and they had their eyes covered when they first came up into the light. It’s a long time ago now but this is what I remember x
Interesting recollections, glad the pit ponies got to see the outside world again. Sadly, up here in Cheshire, up to the 1920's, the pit ponies working in the salt mines never returned to the surface. The mine shafts were very narrow and the ponies were taken down as foals. They were well looked after, and it was a very safe and clean environment, but once fully grown a return to the surface was impossible. Sad but true.
@@andycap6786 oh that’s sad never seeing the sun I hated it when they went down again, they were brought up because the mine closed for two weeks every august for holidays so no one to look after them.
Beamish is a fantastic place to visit, the 1950's area is now open. The Theatre used to be about 1 mile away from my house, I think it's due for completion next year. Durham City is about 8 miles from Beamish and well worth a visit, it's a beautiful city with some very old buildings. Not a lot of Americans know about these places in fact the whole of the North East is often overlooked and it's a shame as there is a lot of history up here.
Or they go to Newcastle and neglect the rest
@@SiobhanHfuhruhurr-qe1ul Exactly. It happens here too. Edinburgh is overcrowded with tourists who think if they do the Royal Mile, they cover the castle and Holyroodhouse, and that's it! Glasgow is a Beautiful City too- home to the Burrell Collection and a wonderful museum of Transport. I'm a bit biased there, as a number of ships connected with my Grampa are there -in model form! Perth, Inverness, Fort William, Skye, -the East Neuk of Fife, and many other places are all worth visiting.
The theatre is from Ryhope in Sunderland.
Yes it is from Ryhope I live about 1 mile away
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WOW small world. I grew up there.
But that was a long time ago.
If you go to Beamish, just up the road from me, then also go to Cragside in Northumberland further north to the first house that had electricity.
I live not too far from Beamish so have visited several times over the years and I can vouch for it being a great day(s) out no matter how many times you go. I first went with my school in the early 1970's when it was just starting out. There wasn't much there apart from the main hall which was used as a traditional museum and some old farm buildings and lots of open space. Just about everything you see now has been built from scratch. Whenever an old building was due for demolition in the North East, Beamish would swoop in and have it dismantled brick by brick and re-erected at Beamish just as it would have been back in it's heyday! It's a brilliant testament to the insight, planning and determination of it's guardians over the years.
We were there last weekend. Not all the 1950s is open but you have houses, pavilion, hairdressers and cafe. As well as normal fish and chips shop.
Another place in the UK you'd probably love to visit is Cragside; *massive* Victorian mansion, former home of William Armstrong (of Armstrong & Whitworth fame), and the first house in the world to be lit by electricity.
Cragside is an amazing place, however, it was the first house in the world to be lit by hydroelectric electricity, from turbines installed by Lord Armstrong. Back in the days when Tyneside was effectively the World's Silicon Valley, driving engineering and innovation.
I love Beamish and I was recently there, couple of months ago and they have part of the 1950 village built there is a fish and chip, shop barber/hairdresser, cafe/soda shop, house and community centre. They are in the process of building a cinema. I will be going back to beamish later in the year to see how they got on with the 1950s village. Also I have videos up on my channel from beamish
Sounds PERFECT!
👋 girls. As an Aussie I can say that Beamish was one of the most cool days out in the UK. Loved that it was a “living” museum with guides and people wearing period costumes and we got to check out the inside of cottages, ride on the various vehicles, and wander around the shops with children in period clothes. We loved Beamish and the day out with six of my husband’s British relatives.
The dialects 🤣🤣🤣 my husband after 50+ years in Australia can’t understand everything he hears and has to ask me … because of course I have been listening to him every day for over 50 years and it sounds normal to me 😂😂😂
You should also check out a barge tour of the Thames from Redding down river past Windsor and back again over a 6 day period going navigating the lochs. It was the most memorable holiday EVER with our British relatives. We actually puttered alongside the University rowing races at Henley with toffs strolling and sailing in huge private yachts, tiny steam powered two man wooden boats, and an abundance of males and females in white linen trousers, straw hats and blazers. An unexpected bonus to our trip was a fully manned New Zealand Māori war boat coming around a bend chanting as they stroked … the sight of this landed us on a sand bank and my son had to go overboard to push us off. Love your arm chair touring. ❤️
There are a number of 'Living Museums' in the UK. They cover pretty much all eras from Anglo Saxon to modern day. Plenty oy of Steam Train Museums all over. North York Moors being one of the most known. It has a 25 mile single track with a umber of stations. Runs from Pickering to Whitby, where it intersects with the modern rail network.
Yep! I remember going on a school trip to a Roman living museum in year 3! It was my favourite school trip that we went on as we got to dress up as little romans with these fake spears 😊😆 Loved it!
Eden Camp went with school trip was very interesting
Another incredible place to visit is the Weald and Downland museum. They have medieval and tudor houses, a market building, shops, workshops...its incredible. You can go into houses built in the 14th and 15th centuries. They save these buildings and move them brick by brick to the museum. We were there for hours and still didn't see everything. Its also where they film 'The repair shop' tv programme if youve ever heard of it
Yes, I love Weald and Downland Museum, not too far from where I live too!
Agreed. Amberley working museum near Arundel, and not too far from the Weald and Downland, is also worth a visit especially for it’s working buses and trains.
I live within 20 miles from Beamish museum and have visited it many times over the years. It is known as a living museum and shows life as it was in different time periods in history. An amazing place to visit and very accessible to all. I worked for a major food retailer in this area (North East Co-operative Society) and one of our largest stores in Annfield Plain, County Durham was due to be replaced by a larger more modern store. Beamish museum approached the Co-operative the owner of the store with a proposal to dismantle the store and rebuild it brick by brick into Beamish. It now features as the Co-op store in the town from the 1920s.
As I understand it, the buildings are dismantled piece by piece/brick by brick in their original location, then rebuilt brick by brick when it gets to Beamish. All I can say is, it's worth all the hard work. Hat well and truly off to the boys and girls who do all the dismantling and rebuilding.
That's exactly what they do, all are genuine old buildings meticulously disassembled then rebuilt at beamish. I can remember some from the local towns being done.
I went in the 70s. One of the miner's cottages had previously been the home of one of my classmate's grandparents.
If you look closely at the school, you will find numbers on the bricks/stone from when it was broken down and moved. It was like a kit, and some of the bricks were put in facing the wrong way.
@michaelstamper5604 ... You answered the question I was about to ask about the buildings here, thank you.
You are right most of the buildings were moved brick by brick but not all thre outsides are totally accurate the pub in the old 1900 village was in the town of Bishop Auckland, I used to go into the side entrance for pop (soda) and crisps as a young child and there was no stables as now I think the rest is correct it was also next to the courthouse.
I visited Beamish many years ago when it was covered in snow and only had a few visitors. It was absolutely brilliant!
The fresh bread from Herrons is AMAZING! Usually start eating chunks of it while walking around Beamish, especially when it’s still warm 😂
Great place. Also, 10 minutes away is the town of Washington- the ancestral home of George Washington.
You have to see the open days when everyone dresses up and brings their own vintage vehicles and drive around all day .👌
Yesssss!!!
We’ve just spent Sunday Father’s Day with my 96 year old mother in law at the pit village watching the brass band competition we took a picnic and had an amazing day as a family …
There are films of pit ponies during their 2 weeks holiday running around and pleasure doesn’t begin to describe it. The miners loved them, and the canaries they used to detect poison gas
Loved Beamish! We spent about 7 hours there, walked over 6 miles and will definitely go back to see the 50s village.
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All the buildings you see here are original buildings, pulled down brick by brick, stone by stone and rebuilt at Beamish. About 4 years ago a house just outside my village was moved to Beamish, that one was called Spains Farm and it is overlooking the Pit Village. The 1950's Village is now open but they are currently adding to it. EVERYTHING you see is original, not made to look original. It is an amazing place, I have been many times and never get tired of it. It is best to get there at the latest 10am because there is so much to see.
I visited a couple of times, it was amazing. My dad was born in Easington, in County Durham. He went into the mines when he left school. I think some of the pits went under the North Sea. In early times I think the miners had to pay for their own candles and to have their picks sharpened. It was a really hard life. My dad and his brothers went home covered in coal dust and had to share a tin bath, the first one in was lucky, the water was still clean. Thanks girls for a great video. I love nostalgia.
My mum's family were from the same area. The mines did run under the sea. The waste coal, (slack), was taken out to sea and dumped, it then washed up on the beach and was gathered up, dried and used in the home.
Beamish museum is only a few miles from Washington CD, ( County Durham).
Yes your right , I lived in Easington and worked down the mine ,the mine tunnels are miles out at sea ,we use to travel in the locomotive train for a half hour to get to coal faces.
😂 the bleating back, I do that too. I love watching you too. You're so down to earth and just wonderful
You two gals are amazing. Thank you for taking such an incredible interest in our country , culture and history, when u come over , have a great time
Thank you so much!
Jam and coconut sponge is typical school dinner 'afters' from my youth: 1960s and early 1970s..
That and 'gypsy tart'.
Hard to find the recipe for that on the internet, for some reason... ;-)
My brother volunteers there; he’s also in the Christmas choir that entertains visitors in December.
You're welcome to visit. We live around 18 miles from Beamish and have taken the family a few times, I can say honestly say you will love it but do it over a couple days as there's so much to see and do.
Many, many years ago I was on school trip to Beamish when they were setting up the exhibits in the Pit Head. It wasn't actually open yet but the ex miner who was helping set it up let about 8 of us and our Maths teacher in and spent a couple of hours explaining everything. It was the highlight of the whole trip and something I've never forgotten. Being told what things were really like, by someone who lived it is the best learning experience you can have.
Beamish is the best place on the planet. Me and my mam have the annual pass and we honestly go about once a month, there's too much to get round in a day. The best bit is it's all local history so the trams and busses that you see going round are ones that would actually have run in the local area. A lot of the buildings are original too and have been dismantled and rebuilt brick for brick at the museum. I'm pretty sure some of them have photos in of the actual people who lived there. I could write you an essay about all the amazing things there. They're also constantly switching stuff around so it's never 100% the same each time we go.
When I was a little boy, dad and I would go to Woolworth's on Saturday mornings, and he would buy a big bag of broken biscuits. You never knew what you would get but sometimes you would get jammy ones or creamy ones and even some chocolate covered ones.🙂
Beamish is too, too much to do in a day. It is, I think, more of a holiday destination in itself! Thanks for showing, and commenting, on the video. The company I used to work for had a staff welfare section, they organised events of all kinds fir the workforce and their families. We used to go from Edinburgh to Beamish on tour coaches, about every three years; sadly that company no longer trades, but my memories live on. This video really, really took me back to happy times.
So happy to hear that!!
We have done it in a day but my advice to you as you are unable to visit all the time is a two day ting at least. There are loads of things in Durham and surrounding area
They are planning to open some holiday let’s there for people to stay at the museum over night
Totally agree I live close to Beamish and have been many times since the mid 70's. Anybody going for the first time would struggle to see everything and appreciate the place in one day
I live in Newcastle and I remember visiting when Beamish first opened. We have taken our kids and now they take theirs. I’ve seen the museum grow over the decades and looking forward to seeing the 1950s section. Don’t be put off the fish and chips cooked in beef fat are delicious, that’s how I remember them as a child, completely different taste and a 100% better than the way they cook fish and chips now. Hope you get a chance to visit you won’t be disappointed
Good Lord It Has To Be Almost 40 Years Since I Went To Beamish Open Air Museum . Its A Fantastic Place To Visit .
Great place and always changing and adding things. 1950 town now partly open,. As far as I know admission is still the same
The 1950s town is open, I've just came back from there about 2hrs ago, I live like 10mins away from it, they are in development of a Cinema. We played mini golf aswell, you can if you want to play bowls aswell, and there is a park there for kids aswell
Thanks girls!This isn't far from me,it's an amazing place!Co Durham is beautiful xx
So interesting, to peek into days gone by. Thank you for taking us along. Loved the little jig Joerg did at the 50's town!😅 You two are the best!❤❤
Im a cockney, but mum was from Durham. So everything that chap in the pit said was perfectly clear to me. X
I'm from Devon, England, UK. The Jam and coconut sponge I had these in our School dinners one day a week,at our Infant/Primary School years reception then years 1- 6 ages 5-11 in the mid 1990s until the early 2000s for dessert. It was always served with custard. we also had pineapple crumble with custard and chocolate concrete a shortbread with cocoa powder was added to the mix and it was dusted on the top with with caster sugar. It was always served with either strawberry, raspberry or chocolate custard which were all made from blancmange mix packets served as custard. They all tasted amazing!
Ironbridge Gorge open air museum (Blists Hill) in Shropshire is well worth a visit. For some reason I went about 4 times as a kid (we lived in Norfolk and then London 🤷🏻♀️🤣) and it left me with a lifelong obsession with the Victorians. It's a fascinating and beautiful place.
The Ironbridge, the gorge and all the sites/ museums are a World Heritage site. Tickets last a year too.
@@sjbictyes, the "passport" for all the museums is really good value.
Some of my favourite memories as a kid were made at Beamish. My dad is from Newcastle so I used to spend summers and school holidays there, I lost count how many times I went to Beamish, it never gets old
I live near Beamish and have a yearly ticket, so so much to see and the Pork Pies are amazing!!
Thank you for a most informative and interesting video. I had vaguely heard of Beamish, but that's about all. I schooled in England for six years and have visited dozens of times, have three sons currently studying or working in the UK. None of us put Beamish on our respective bucket lists - until now!! Thanks.
This reminds me of St. Fagans National Museum of History in Cardiff and a short drive outside Cardiff is the Big Pit National Coal Museum, I like this kind of museum and have fond memories from school trips
he was speaking a mixture of Pitmatic and Geordie as I said I live 15 mins away from this Museum and sometimes I still have problems understanding some of the older Actors in the Museum as they speak in a broader accent than the younger ones, The Open Cast Mine went deeper when I was younger but the deeper levels have been walled off for safety after the tunnels started to flood and get weaker over time
Wow, iv bin watching your vids for ages and its quite surreal you're looking into Beamish: a place iv been every year for 36years and puts NorthEast England on the map. Thank you for loving Britain!
This place is really fantastic: everything is authentic brought hera and rebuil. The pub is actually from my home town" the Sun inn. Sometimes there are school visits where all the kids are ib period costumes. I hear the 50's town is open and you can actually get a 50's haircut/style at the barber's shop. There is a really cool fish and chip there too. It is worth a trip. For many British people it iis going back to how their parents, grandparents lived. I remember the first time I went I remember loads of people saying things like "we or grandma had one of those/ I remember those. I hope you can make it there and tje north east in general. 😀
I had to smile at the firt thing we saw, a tram advertising Rington's Tea. My mother grew up in County Durham and once told me that her first boyfriend worked as a delivery man for Rington's Tea. :) I've never been to the museum my self. It looks amazing. So many memories for me. My grandfather worked with pit ponies., in the coal mines. He lost an eye and his hearing down the mines. The Geordie/North East accent is not easy. I grew up with it so know it well. Steam engines were invented in that area. I should point out that 1950s Britian was nothing like 1950s in the US. For us it was post-war living, a lot of poverty and shortages. No modern buildings, bombed area were still evident; I grew up i the 40s and 50s and it wasn't a lot of fun. Oh I remember buying broken biscuits cheap! Now you get them broken but no cheaper. Modern packaging! Oh! and I've used a printing press, when I did a print making course at college. :) Lived on a small farm like that too when I was small.
I love broken biscuits. You never quite know what biscuits are going to be inside the box
It’s like playing Russian roulette, but with biscuits 😊
we used to have a proper coffee shop in Bromley high street - they didn't make coffee they roasted and ground their own for sale. The smell of that still lingers with me and it's been probably 30 plus years since they went out of business
so did Beckenham High ST, oh and a cheese shop. I used to hold my breath past the cheeses, yet breathe deeply at the coffee house, lol
I'm in County Durham and I've been countless times. It's sort of a right of passage in the North East 😂
I live near Beamish and used to work in TV and it always amused/irritated us when location managers from out of the area - usually London - told us about Beamish as if it was something they had just discovered. 😂
Anyone who loved the Catherine Cookson TV adaptations will recognise Beamish. I remember Claire Skinner in the The Wingless Bird. Her character had a sweetshop.
I'm from a Pit village Inn the North East I was born here & 55 Years later still live here, I always say I'm proud to have Pit Blood in my body because all my family, Ancesters both sides have been Pit Men. When they stopt using Pit Ponys down the Mines most of the Ponys were blind or had light sensitive eyes when the brought them all up from under ground for good . All the Ponys were sent to farms or people with land to live out the restnof there lives. Also I don't know who knows this, many many many years ago more pre war they took caged Canereys down the mine to detect gas. It was so cruel because as we know gas is called the silent killer because it's low or no smell so whenmthey took those poor Canerys down the Mines ( pits ) if the Canerys died it ment there was gas present so they could get the pit men out. Thank God for Animal Charitys like the .R.S.P.C.A. or .P.D.S.A. that I think helped stop this Barbarick act
Loved seeing this. I live about a 30 minute drive from Beamish and go back every few years as it's always evolving. The 1st time I visited as a kid there was probably a quarter of what's there now, you parked in a field and the had a portacabin at the entry...I won't say how long ago that was 😂 The pub in the main town was taken down brick by brick from my home town and rebuilt there, and you can still buy a pint in it. If you go I'd advise starting early in the town. You'll get in the shops easier and the sweet shop does demonstrations (you can always circle back to see the rest of it later). You can then spread out around the site. Definitely need a minimum of a full day. It's also very close to Durham, the old cathedral city, which I think you've seen on another video. You could spend your whole stay in the North East and not get board, Alnwick, Raby Castle, Bowes Museum, Sea Houses, Bamburgh, Holy Island, Hexham, the list goes on.
Loved this video. I haven't been for ages. The coop. The shop my dad remembers it when he was little. They moved it brick by brick to the museum and he loves going back. Such a lovely place and I am lucky to live so close .
Beamish is a lovely place, especially the bakery and sweetshop
Just up the road from us, two things dismantled in my home town of Hetton Le Hole was the miners houses formally Francis Street and the Band Hall from South Market street.
Both dismantled brick by brick and rebuilt on site at Beamish
The UK has a bunch of great industrial/heritage museums. The national railway museum got mentioned in this video, would highly recommend, that and the Ffestiniog/Welsh highland railways
St Fagans open air museum, on the outskirts of Cardiff 🏴, and Big Pit Museum in Blaenavon are both great, and being wales, are both free (parking is charged, but is extremely reasonable/normal parking prices for the UK).
It's really quite amazing how many historically interesting things there are in the UK. For example we visited Cruachan power station - you wouldn't expect that to be interesting just from the sound of it, but learning about things like how it's one of 7 power stations around the UK that can be used to kick start the national grid in the event of a complete UK wide outage, or how it's one of several that are used specifically to provide extra power to the grid for ad breaks in Corrie when it's known people will go and boil their kettles. Fascinating stuff.
I took my Grandson who was 10 years old at the time, and told him we were travelling back in a time machine to when my grandad was a kid, and he was not looking forward to spending a day at a museum, He came away from the place amazed at how people lived a hundred years ago and actually thanked me for the trip and how much he had enjoyed looking back in history.
Winner!
The coolest thing about Beamish is that the buildings are not reproductions, they are actual buildings from that period that have been dismantled and moved to Beamish and reassembled in situ. That's why they are so accurate, they are the real thing!
We visited this week after many years,the 50's town is partially complete..hair salon and chip shop. They're building a toy shop from my town of middlesbrough:)
Thank you Natasha & Debbie. Great video as always 👌👍❤️❤️
Glad you enjoyed it!
I remember going to Beamish on a school trip in the early 1970’s. The museum has grown immensely. I also attended a concert at the hall around the same time.
That was absolutely fantastic! I never knew about this place before! I will certainly be visiting!
You should!
I grew up in the north east of England and Beamish was somewhere that as a family we visited at least twice a year. There is so many wonderful and interesting places up north.
Beamish is quite close to Newcastle, so they have Geordie accents, which might explain why you can't understand the accent! Great video. Beamish was/is a prime location for school trips in the region so it was a staple of my childhood. Glad to see it's still so popular
He sounds like a old miner
I absolutely love Beamish. So much to see and do. I find something new each time i go there.
What a brilliant Museum, so many interesting things to check out! It reminds me very much of a place here in Christchurch, New Zealand called Ferrymead Heritage Park. Thanks so much, I really enjoyed this! Love to you both ❤
My first visit to Beamish was in 1979 been there a few times since would to see the 1950s as that was my era met my husband in 1955 married 1957 This area of uk is beautiful Alnwick & Bamburgh Castles in same area Enjoy girlsx
Bamburgh Castle is beautiful
I'm from North Durham and Beamish is on my doorstep.. its a great representation of old England i went there as a child and the classroom part was interactive and i got a taste of how it was back then (really strict) my grandmother told me a story of how they wanted everyone to be right handed back in her day, but she was left handed so they made her sit on her left hand to make her write right handed
There's several living museums in the UK. A VERY popular UK show "The Repair Shop" is filmed at the Weald and Downland Living Museum . Theres a 24 minute video on here by the MemorySeekers "Rural Village Life in England - Weald & Downland Living Museum"
ruclips.net/video/4roqpS3t5PA/видео.html
Memory Seekers denied our request to react to their videos sadly
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow meh that's lame. You promoting their videos is hardly any different to the whole concept of sharing videos! Seems silly. Unfortunately the other videos on here of that place are either small clips or way too long walkarounds
@wildwine6400 couldn't agree more. Technically we could, legally speaking as it's fair use. But we did ask and they gave a no. So, oh well.
Beamish is incredible. Was lucky enough to grow up nearby and I've been back many times over the years. Keeps getting bigger and better. Amazing place.
I visited this place a number of years ago with my late mother and we both really enjoyed our day but it’s amazing how much they have added during those years …. I really want to go back for another visit as it looks like an incredible experience 😊
I've been here, quite a few years ago now, from what I can remember it's a good day out and definitely worth going to if your into this sort of thing
Thanks for bringing some attention to Beamish!
I live a 2 minute drive down the road, it's somewhere I've visited since I was young and still enjoy today.
I'm a yearly pass member, it's only a 30 minute drive from where I live, love going there 😊
You two are wonderful. I love your videos. I am originally from London; living in Suffolk since 2007. But, I just moved to live with my partner, Eric, in Strasbourg, France! My cousin lives in Hartlepool and she just visited this museum. The 1950's town is now up and running and she absolutely LOVED it. So, do go! Natasha, you will get your 1950's fix. :-) Love to you both and best wishes. Deano, now in France.
We visited this museum last year, there is so much to do, our favourite place was the place where you could get lunch, Fish & Chips done in the real kitchen of the day, it was the colliery, with small houses and a full coal mine, all these houses and items in the houses, were transported, a whole shop taken brick by brick and rebuilt at the Beamish Museum, its a fantastic place to visit. Many of the staff dress in the period and will advise you of their daily tasks, its a fab place.
Beamish is only 12 miles from me. I love it!
I live a 20 minute drive from Beamish and visit regularly. I love it
I spent the day at Beamish about 4 years ago- well worth the visit, highly recommended. Comfortable shoes , and expect to walk a great deal.