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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 ...
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.
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.
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).
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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.
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.
The Counting House, part of the brewery complex in central Cork, Ireland. The Cork Porter Brewery was founded in 1791 by Beamish, Crawford, Barrett, and O’Brien. [7] [8] They purchased an existing brewery from Edward Allen (the son of Aylmer Allen who had run the brewery until his death in May 1791) on a site in Cramer's Lane that had been used for brewing since at least 1650 (and possibly ...