Beamish
Beamish, The North of England Open Air Museum is an open-air museum located at Beamish, near the town of Stanley, County Durham, England. The museum's guiding principle is to preserve an example of everyday life in urban and rural North East England at the climax of industrialisation in the early 20th century.
Much of the restoration and interpretation is specific to the late Victorian and Edwardian eras, together with portions of countryside under the influence of industrial revolution in 1825. On its 300 acres (120 ha) estate it utilises a mixture of translocated, original and replica buildings; a huge collection of artifacts, working vehicles and equipment; as well as livestock and costumed interpreters.
No recreation of the history of North East England would be complete without a colliery and the people who worked and lived around it. The Pit Village at Beamish is built around a typical colliery as it would have been in the early 1900s. Villages grew up around the mines; houses and coal were provided free in exchange for labour.
Pit communities were close knit and life revolved around the village. Francis Street is a row of pit cottages brought to Beamish from Hetton-le-Hole. They show the homes of a Methodist family, an Irish immigrant family and a miner's widow.
Beamish
Beamish, The North of England Open Air Museum is an open-air museum located at Beamish, near the town of Stanley, County Durham, England. The museum's guiding principle is to preserve an example of everyday life in urban and rural North East England at the climax of industrialisation in the early 20th century.
Much of the restoration and interpretation is specific to the late Victorian and Edwardian eras, together with portions of countryside under the influence of industrial revolution in 1825. On its 300 acres (120 ha) estate it utilises a mixture of translocated, original and replica buildings; a huge collection of artifacts, working vehicles and equipment; as well as livestock and costumed interpreters.
No recreation of the history of North East England would be complete without a colliery and the people who worked and lived around it. The Pit Village at Beamish is built around a typical colliery as it would have been in the early 1900s. Villages grew up around the mines; houses and coal were provided free in exchange for labour.
Pit communities were close knit and life revolved around the village. Francis Street is a row of pit cottages brought to Beamish from Hetton-le-Hole. They show the homes of a Methodist family, an Irish immigrant family and a miner's widow.