Much of the collection is viewable online and the arts of quilting, rug making and cookery in the local traditions are demonstrated at the museum. The site has been used as the backdrop for many film and television productions, particularly Catherine Cookson dramas produced by Tyne Tees Television.
The unselective collecting policy created a lasting bond between museum and community and the supporting Friends organisation was established in before the Beamish site had been occupied. Visitor numbers rose rapidly to around , p. It was designated by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council in as a museum with outstanding collections, and was Living Museum of the Year in The following year it was awarded the bronze prize in the same category at the VisitEngland awards.
A former director has written: "As individuals and communities we have a deep need and desire to understand ourselves in time. Beamish was influential on the Black Country Living Museum, Blists Hill Victorian Town and, in the view of museologist Kenneth Hudson, more widely in the museum community and is a significant educational resource locally. Opening and operating times and details of special events are given on the museum website.
Related Pages. Beamish Colliery Airey Houses, Kibblesworth. Annfield Plain. Victorian Era. Frank Atkinson - Beamish Village. St Helen's Church formerly of Eston. Urpeth Civil Parish. Opened in it was the first regional open-air museum in England.
The concept was proposed by Frank Atkinson with the aim of preserving an example of everyday life in urban and rural North East England at the height of industrialisation. DH9 0RG. History Beamish is the first English museum to be financed and administered by a consortium of County Councils Cleveland, Durham, Northumberland and Tyne and Wear and it was the first regional open-air museum in England.
Railway station A typical North Eastern Railway station is reconstructed on the edge of the town. Colliery village In view of the impact that coal mining has had on its region, the museum has major collections related to this industry. Home Farm This farm complex, preserved in situ, was rebuilt in the mid-nineteenth century as a model farm incorporating a horse mill and a steam-powered threshing mill. The Georgian North The eastern side of the museum site is based around the original Pockerley Manor farm, a 15th-century foundation with a domestic wing of c.
The replica of built Puffing Billy first ran at Pockerley Waggonway. Work is progressing on the Remaking Beamish project, which includes The s Town, a s Farm and expansion of the Georgian area, including an inn where visitors can stay overnight.
We are always increasing and developing our learning opportunities for schools. Enter your details below to subscribe to our termly e-newsletter and ensure you don't miss out on all the latest news, offers and activities. In a trade directory seems to show that Pit Hill was still the preferred name for Beamish village, but that year a railway station opened in the village called Beamish Station and this will have encouraged the adoption of the name.
The station was operational until and closed to goods in It has now gone and should not be confused with the railway station at Beamish Museum that has a quite different history. The new branch line on which the station was built served the Consett iron works and linked it to both Tyneside and Teesside. Following closure the line was uprooted and now serves as part of a long distance footpath and cycle path that runs east to west through the Beamish area.
On the section of the path near Beamish are rather intriguing sculptures of cows made from old JCB parts. Known as the Beamish Shorthorns they were designed by an artist called Sally Matthews. There are many unusual sculptures of this kind at various points along the cycleway that stretches from Sunderland to the coast of Cumbria, though it should be noted that the Stanhope and Tyne Railway never stretched that far. One view is that the houses stood on a boundary between parishes and that neither parish would accept responsibility for them.
This could be true as No Place was historically situated on the boundary of the old parish of Chester-le-Street. In signs were erected renaming the hamlet Co-operative Villas but the angry No Placers protested and it soon regained the old name on the signpost, though Co-operative Villas still remains on signposts as well.
In truth Co-operative Villas was a separate place that appeared later in the nineteenth century and it consisted of a long terrace just to the north of No Place. By the s three further terraces were added to Co-operative Villas and by the s No Place was demolished but Co-operative Villas lived on.
The pub has only been known by this name since and was previously called the Red Robin. As well as mining other industrial activity associated with the Beamish area in past times included paper making at nearby Urpeth, a flint mill and a number of iron forges.
These industries were all clustered around the Beamish Burn or Urpeth Burn as it also appears to have been known to the south of Beamish. There was housing associated with this industry nearby, including a street called Hammer Square. All of these sites were on the southern or eastern banks of the burn where it forms a prominent meander that loops around Ousbrough Wood at the foot of Ousbrough Hill. In around 76 people are known to have worked amongst the woods here when it was a great hive of activity.
It seems to have been so since the late s and by a plan was even formulated that considered linking the Beamish Burn to the River Tyne by means of a canal. The forge industry lasted until when a milldam was swept away in a flood and the forges were dismantled. A watercourse called a leat — a kind of millrace was built alongside the burn to supply water to High Forge. Low Forge, the most southerly of the three forges was probably the oldest and was situated on a tiny stream that joins the Urpeth Burn on its south side in the woods just north of Beamish village.
Forges in this area were operated for many decades by the Gateshead firm of Hawks and Co. Incidentally William Hawks, the founder of the firm had also operated a forge on the Lumley Park Burn near Lumley Castle from to Toggle navigation. Best of Britain. Beamish open-air Museum. Pockerley Farmhouse. Veteran automobiles in the s Town.
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