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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 ...
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.
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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Steam Elephant was recreated by Beamish Museum to work with passengers on its standard gauge "Pockerley Waggonway" in 2002, being assembled by Alan Keef. The replica was designed and built by engineers Ross Clavell, Jim Rees and Dave Potter, finished in 1998. Clavell also designed and built the famous weather vane atop the engine shed at Beamish.
Beamish Museum (23 October 2005) Manderston House (30 October 2005) Rochdale Town Hall ... 1635-1718 founded the 300-year dynasty of clock makers) £3,500
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.
English: Beamish Museum, County Durham, England. The view east from the west footbridge on the Town railway, showing the station, signal box, east footbridge & part of the goods shed & yard. Top right, just about visible, is the museum' 1913 Northern replica bus (reg. J 2007) at the west end of the main street in the Town itself. The coach on ...