beamish museum : 8 results priced between £2.00 and £150.00

At Beamish, County Durham : it Is Now Part of the Open-Air Museum - - Giclee Print from Art.co.uk

Classic Photography art print, poster (39 x 50 cm)

Foreground is a reddish grey roadway. Behind the Penny farthing and the visitors at half height can be seen a band of low simple fencing behind which a strip of grass. Directly behind the man and woman stands a thin tall green tree. Further back is a band of green rolling hills which are tree topped. It the far distance a horizontal band of cloudless pale blue sky. TEXT.

Nice clean copy of this used book (minimal wear to cover, internally a very clean, sound copy).

Main street in Beamish open air museum in the Northeast part of the UK

Although, like Home Farm and Pockerley Old Hall, the Mahogany Drift Mine (worked between 1855 and 1958) is original to the site, the other mine buildings have been moved brick by brick and cog by cog to the museum. The Colliery Heapstead building came to Beamish in 1874. This is where cages containing coal tubs were pulled up from the shaft beneath. Once the contents were weighed and recorded they were emptied into chauldron wagons below. The cages were also used to carry men and ponies to and from...

The second volume in this series focuses upon the relationship between a museum service and its community, viewed from a range of national and international perspectives, and concentrating upon new work and new political parameters. The papers include a substantial analysis of museum operations from an economic standpoint, drawing upon research into the report of the North of England Open Air Museum at Beamish on the local economy. Further papers consider the influence of recent legislation, the...

The North of England Open Air Museum at Beamish, County Durham, operates in two time zones, 1825 and 1913, to relive the achievements of the North East in an enjoyable but historically accurate way. The museum is now 40 years old and the continued development of the rail transport collections is celebrated as a Great Railway Era.