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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 ...
[4] [5] Filming locations include the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne, [6] Common Room of the Great North, Ryhope Engines Museum, [7] Tanfield Railway and Beamish Museum. [8] Additional filming took place in Cologne, Germany. [5]
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.
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The museum's restored North Eastern Railway coach was moved to the Tanfield Railway, also nearby, but it returned to Beamish in 2012 for restoration and use. LNER 68088 at Beamish, 2011 Resident locomotives include NER Class C1 freight engine No. 876 (British Railways Class J21 No. 65033), built at Gateshead in 1889.
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.
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 .
Blue plaque commemorating Daisy Edis. Collections of photographs taken by Daisy and John Edis are held by Durham University and Beamish Museum. [4] [7] [8] Beamish also has a replica photography studio, JR & D Edis Photographers, which is based on the Edis' studio at 52 Saddler Street, Durham and includes objects from the original studio.