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Beamish Museum is the first regional open-air museum, in England, located at Beamish, near the town of Stanley, in County Durham, England. Beamish pioneered the concept of a living museum. By displaying duplicates or replaceable items, it was also an early example of the now commonplace practice of museums allowing visitors to touch objects.
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 from 1825. On its 350 acres (140 ha) estate it uses a mixture of translocated, original and replica buildings, a large collection of artefacts, working vehicles and equipment, as well as livestock and costumed interpreters.
The museum has received a number of awards since it opened to visitors in 1972 and has influenced other living museums.[citation needed] It is an educational resource, and also helps to preserve some traditional and rare north-country livestock breeds.
In 1958, days after starting as director of the Bowes Museum, inspired by Scandinavian folk museums, and realising the North East's traditional industries and communities were disappearing, Frank Atkinson presented a report to Durham County Council urging that a collection of items of everyday history on a large scale should begin as soon as possible, so that eventually an open air museum could be established. As well as objects, Atkinson was also aiming to preserve the region's customs and dialect. He stated the new museum should "attempt to make the history of the region live" and illustrate the way of life of ordinary people. He hoped the museum would be run by, be about and exist for the local populace, desiring them to see the museum as theirs, featuring items collected from them.
Fearing it was now almost too late, Atkinson adopted a policy of "unselective collecting" — "you offer it to us and we will collect it." Donations ranged in size from small items to locomotives and shops, and Atkinson initially took advantage of a surplus of space available in the 19th-century French chateau-style building housing the Bowes Museum to store items donated for the open air museum. With this space soon filled, a former British Army tank depot at Brancepeth was taken over, although in just a short time its entire complement of 22 huts and hangars had been filled, too.
In 1966, a working party was established to set up a museum "for the purpose of studying, collecting, preserving and exhibiting buildings, machinery, objects and information illustrating the development of industry and the way of life of the north of England", and it selected Beamish Hall, having been vacated by the National Coal Board, as a suitable location.
In August 1970, with Atkinson appointed as its first full-time director together with three staff members, the museum was first established by moving some of the collections into the hall. In 1971, an introductory exhibition, "Museum in the Making" opened at the hall.
The museum was opened to visitors on its current site for the first time in 1972, with the first translocated buildings (the railway station and colliery winding engine) being erected the following year. The first trams began operating on a short demonstration line in 1973. The Town station was formally opened in 1976, the same year the reconstruction of the colliery winding engine house was completed, and the miners' cottages were relocated. Opening of the drift mine as an exhibit followed in 1979.
In 1975 the museum was visited by the Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, and by Anne, Princess Royal, in 2002. In 2006, as the Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England, The Duke of Kent visited, to open the town masonic lodge.
With the Co-op having opened in 1984, the town area was officially opened in 1985. The pub had opened in the same year, with Ravensworth Terrace having been reconstructed from 1980 to 1985. The newspaper branch office had also been built in the mid-1980s. Elsewhere, the farm on the west side of the site (which became Home Farm) opened in 1983. The present arrangement of visitors entering from the south was introduced in 1986.
At the beginning of the 1990s, further developments in the Pit Village were opened, the chapel in 1990, and the board school in 1992. The whole tram circle was in operation by 1993. Further additions to the Town came in 1994 with the opening of the sweet shop and motor garage,Beamish Museum 2014 followed by the bank in 1999. The first Georgian component of the museum arrived when Pockerley Old Hall opened in 1995, followed by the Pockerley Waggonway in 2001.
In the early 2000s two large modern buildings were added, to augment the museum's operations and storage capacity - the Regional Resource Centre on the west side opened in 2001, followed by the Regional Museums Store next to the railway station in 2002. Due to its proximity, the latter has been cosmetically presented as Beamish Waggon and Iron Works. Additions to display areas came in the form of the Masonic lodge (2006) and the Lamp Cabin in the Colliery (2009). In 2010, the entrance building and tea rooms were refurbished.
Into the 2010s, further buildings were added - the fish and chip shop (opened 2011) band hall (opened 2013) and pit pony stables (built 2013/14) in the Pit Village, plus a bakery (opened 2013) and chemist and photographers (opened 2016) being added to the town. St Helen's Church, in the Georgian landscape, opened in November 2015.
At Batu Caves, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Batu Caves (Tamil: பத்து மலை), is a limestone hill, which has a series of caves and cave temples, located in Gombak district, 13 kilometres (8 mi) north of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It takes its name from the Sungai Batu or Batu River, which flows past the hill. Batu Caves is also the name of the nearby village.The cave is one of the most popular Hindu shrines outside India, dedicated to Lord Murugan. It is the focal point of Hindu festival of Thaipusam in Malaysia.
Daimler Fleetline XBU17S (8017) and Leyland Fleetline GNF16V (8141) both products of Northern Counties, are seen as static exhibits at an event at Guide Bridge station.
9th September 2023
The guides are fully trained through the New Zealand Mountain Guides association and have thorough knowledge of the glacier and the surrounding mountains.
Guide Bridge Stabling Point: locos of classes 08, 37, 40 & 76 on SP 10/10/1982.
This is my only colour shot of Cl 76 which were by this time all withdrawn due to closure of the Woodhead Route.
I didn't make a list of the numbers here but from the scan can ID the 08 as 08399 & the first 76 is 76024. The 40 is 40155 as I took a separate shot of it.
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Remarkable 16th century botanical calligraphic artwork by two masters of the past: Georg Bocskay (1510–1575), court secretary to Ferdinand I, and Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601). First created by Georg Bocskay to demonstrated the different styles of calligraphy of the era, the book was later ornamented with intricate fruits, flowers, and insects by Joris Hoefnagel and commissioned by Emperor Rudolph II, Ferdinand’s grandson. This unusual artistic collaboration between scribe and painter disrupted the history of manuscript illumination and gave us one of the most fascinating and beautifully crafted manuscripts of all time. Complement your designs, posters, and wallpapers with these enchanting CC0 illustrations from the past. We have digitally enhanced these spellbound hand-drawn calligraphy into high resolution printable quality. They are free to download under the CC0 license.
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One cold, clear winter night at Penmon in Anglesey, looking over Puffin Island. I liked how it looks like the lighthouse is projecting the light of the moon onto the star filled sky.
For Miffymoo2......nearing the light, the journey is nearly over...
Pedestrian tunnel under the river Thames, Greenwich, London UK
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Part of the Roosevelt battlegroup, leaving San Diego for a Pacific deployment. Hamilton is part of DesRon23.
Left to right - Drivers Terry King and Sid Jackson, guards Arnie Furniss (me) and Stan Lee, Drivers Tommy Abbot (with his back to camera) and Ted Lathwood. Only me and Tommy Abbot are still extant out of this group! Terry, always had a story, always cheerful. Sid, a dry sense of humour, great bloke, Ted, sad demise, travelling back to Guide Bridge from Manchester Victoria, felt unwell, sat on a bench at Victoria and keeled over. Never worked with their like before or since.
"We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be," Jane Austen. Seattle, Wash. iPhone 3Gs.
Went out tonight for a coffee and a short drive with my lovely wife and we found ourselves down at Port Dover taking in the wonderful light coming from the full moon. Somethings about winter can still be enjoyed, I do really look forward to the warmer weather to hopefully come soon?
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A guide at the buried city of Plymouth on southern Montserrat Island, Eastern Caribbean, recounts the city's 1995 destruction by Soufrière Hills Volcano.
Guide to the whales, porpoises, and dolphins (order Cetacea)
London :Printed by order of the Trustees [by W. Clowes and Sons, Limited],1909.
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He is a Japanese guide who has been in Paris among thirty years. So he is an expert at all of Paris. He could teach informations of Paris to taxi driver who is a Parisian.
The hall of mirrors in Château de Versailles
Paris 5/August/2015
JOJO’S BIZARRE ADVENTURE : SS GUIDE – New Medals – 2016/03/16
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Poppy is one of my guide dogs in training. Her puppy walkers say "Poppy has developed a funny habit which makes us laugh, if one of us call out to each other in the house, she will go and sit in front of the person as if to ensure they do what they are told!"
A guided group at the rock scramble above the hanging valley, making its way to the Höllentalferner now.
This photograph is part of the trip report Zugspitze Valley of Hell.
Is the brick I found special?
Partnumbers 3001old, 3001 and 3001special as used on BrickLink (but excluding the 3001oldf1 and 3001f1 variants).
Tour guides have a tough job making sure that we don't confuse buses, making sure that we stay together and that we know at what time we are to return etc. This takes a lot of ingenuity when you are competing with half a dozen others shouting out similar instructions. This guide found a method of using a disused cup as a megaphone!!