Day 14 - Beamish Museum

A genuine 19th century child mine worker

 Friday August 6th 2010

Yes folks in the last few posts on this blog we have taken you back to Roman Times, we have taken you back to a time of knights and dragons and now its time to get into our time machine and take you back to the 19th century. Yes thats right folks we have gone to the Beamish museum. Before we tell you about that, its only fair that we mention that the only cache we did today was right outside the museum....we don't mean literally on the middle of the floor on the road...but as close as you are going to get!

Simple things and all that...

 There are quite a few caches in the woods next to this museum, but thats for another day. The Beamish museum is brilliant. The official linky poo to the museum, check it out...or else. But while we are on the subject of similar museums check out the other websites below which are also great days out even if you have to travel a little further.
This one similar to the Beamish museum is in the Black Country.
This one tells the story of Irish people moving to America...cool.
This one is the swiss equivalent of all the other 3...superb.

Mrs Shiltonpig on the toilet 19th century style

Ok so now that all that blatent advertising has finished...we would like to point out that we are not getting commission for any of the above...however if someone would like to pay us commission then please feel free to contact us!!!! Beamish is split into different areas ...if you have never been to an open air museum then let us explain....the musuem takes genuine buildings, and other artefacts from that period of time and rebuilds them exactly as it was at that time. It makes for literally stepping back in time. Beamish is split into a coal mine village where you get to go into a real coal mine. Another area is a working farm, and you can see rural life at the turn

We want to drive one of these!

 of the 20th century. Another area they have recreated an entire town with loads of shops (including a sweetie shop....totally overpriced though!!!!) the town has trams and buses in full working order and you have to queue up for them. Of course everyone working in the museum is dressed up in period dress, and it is a strange experience as you feel you are the one dressed inappropriately! Finally the last bit of the museum takes you back further in time to the 18th century, there is a rural manor house and they have rebuilt one of the first steam trains ever invented at a top speed of 5 mph. For some reason this was Mr

Choo choo

Shiltonpigs favourite part as this was totally unique. However Mrs Shiltonpig and Josh clearly enjoyed the tram ride the most. It is not a cheap day to get in...£16 a person. However you will not run out of things to do in the day...having Josh meant we missed out on a lot, but if you are in this area check out the caches and check out the museum. These living museums need to be kept alive, as they record our history...(Mr Shiltonpig realises he has gone all serious on his readers!!!)

And so do the shilton kind...so watch out!