whats it like ? worth a visit, she wants a weekend away....

Hi Graeme, assuming you mean Beamish Museum just south of Newcastle it is well worth a visit , very realistic and you can easily lose a day there, very entertaining characters in role.
We liked the dentist who described to a [very attentive] group of little school children how his foot operated drill would take 20 minutes to drill for a filling. Some one asked if it hurt and he said " Aye like buggery!" the next question he bounced back saying "ask yer Mam!

There is a big sweet shop where you buy things in shillings and pence, working trams, old coal mine. miners cottage, proggy mat making etc cranes etc , something for everyone really, there wa s the last working pit pony living there, but he might have croaked by now,

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Mike

Yep been 2 with the familiy, its brill, needs a full day though really and some nice weather.

Rich

Its brill, most of it is very authentic, trams are rescued restored to running condition and the drift mine is real, as in it was a mine before the museum. Loverly old pub but 2009 prices not shillings and pennys!

The minors cottages are from the street my granny lived in from 1920 and I grew up there with mam and dad out at work.
The farm is working and the pigs stink! The farmhouse is dressed up 1880's style.

Look carefully and you will find a 1922 George Stephenson Hetton Colliery locomotive in one of the sheds next to the mine, from long before the Stockton Darlington

I'm looking out for a job there driving the trams!


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i took my mrs a few years ago, and we really enjoyed it. we made a weekend of it by stopping the night at Lumley Castle which is quite close by