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Beamish, previously named "Pit Hill", is a village in County Durham, England, situated to the north east of Stanley. The entrance to Beamish Museum. The village is contained within Hell Hole Wood and is home to Beamish Museum, an open-air museum seeking to replicate a northern town of the early 20th century. Its principal public house is the ...
Beamish Museum is the first regional open-air museum, in England, [2] located at Beamish, near the town of Stanley, in County Durham, England. Beamish pioneered the concept of a living museum. [3] By displaying duplicates or replaceable items, it was also an early example of the now commonplace practice of museums allowing visitors to touch ...
Beamish Hall is a mid-18th-century country house, now converted to a hotel, which stands in 24 acres (97,000 m 2) of grounds near the town of Stanley, County Durham. It is a Grade II* listed building .
Beamish was a railway station which served the village of Beamish in County Durham, North East England, from 1894 to 1953. The station was built by the North Eastern Railway on the Beamish Deviation Line off of the earlier Stanhope and Tyne Railway .
Dr Frank Atkinson CBE (13 April 1924 – 30 December 2014) was a British museum director and curator. Atkinson is best known for creating the Beamish Museum near Stanley, County Durham, an open-air 'living' museum on the history of the north of England with a focus on the changes brought to both urban and rural life by the industrialisation of the early 20th century.
Sign for Co-operative Villas and No Place. No Place is a small village near the town of Stanley in County Durham, England, east of Stanley and west of Beamish.Situated to the south of the A693, it is home to an award-winning real ale pub, the Beamish Mary Inn (dating from 1897 and originally known as the Red Robin), and lies near the Beamish Mary coal pit. [1]
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The Beamish replica was completed in 1975 for the 150th anniversary of the S&DR. The original survives as a static exhibit, having eventually become part of the National Collection held by the National Railway Museum , who have placed it on long-term loan to Head of Steam (a museum on the route of the S&DR).