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	Beamish Museum
		Beamish is the first English museum to be financed and administered by a consortium of County Councils and it is the first regional open air museum in England.
		Beamish is a partner in the North East Regional Museums Hub, part of the Renaissance programme.
		Beamish is thus fulfilling the dual function of education and entertainment.
	www.beamish.org.uk /about.html (1189 words)

	Beamish Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Beamish, The North of England Open Air Museum is an open air museum located in the town of Stanley, County Durham, England.
		It 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.
		The museum was established in the 1970s under director Frank Atkinson.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beamish_Museum (450 words)

	Cork City Council > Our Services: Architects: Cork Public Museum
		This two-storied house was built by Charles Beamish, a brewer c1845 at the cost of £4,000.00 on land he had purchased from the Duke of Devonshire.
		Beamish had the grounds (destined to become Fitzgerald's Park) laid out with a variety of shrubs and trees, and due to their density the grounds became known as "The Strawberries" and the house "The Shrubbery".
		The present museum owes its origin to the interest aroused in the city when a "Historical Exhibition" was organised in March 1942 at 97 Patrick Street.
	www.corkcorp.ie /ourservices/architects/museum.shtml (1404 words)

	Beamish Museum tramway
		There are three passing loops at the tram stops and a section of double track through the re-created town street.
		The tramway operates every day that the museum is open - a normal summer service uses three cars, providing a tram every 10 minutes in one direction and every 20 in the other.
		Beamish 196, a short single deck car rebuilt from Oporto 196.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /andrew.burchell/Beamish/home.html (302 words)

	Museums & Galleries Northumberland Northumbria England UK GB (page 103)
		The Museum vividly recreates life in the North in the early part of this century with genuine buildings often moved brick by brick to the site; and where visitors are welcomed by authentically costumed staff.
		Beamish, Britain's favourite open air museum, is set in over 300 acres of beautiful countryside and is the winner of both the British Museum of the Year and European Museum of the Year Awards.
		Wylam Railway Museum was opened in 1981, the bicentenary of the birth of “The Father of Railways” George Stephenson who was born in Wylam, to commemorate Wylam’s unique contribution to railway history.
	www.northumberland.gov.uk /vg/hismuseums.html (3567 words)

	Beamish Museum
		Beamish Museum is in County Durham in North East England.
		Beamish Museum is a great day out, a unique experience not to be missed and not to be confused with boring museums.
		The museum has two replica buses which are used between the town centre and the colliery village during the summer season.
	www.afundit.co.uk /beamishmuseum1.htm (2423 words)

	24 HM Student Journalist Beats The Beamish Tram! - 24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK museums, galleries, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		When I first heard about Beamish, the North of England Open Air Museum, issuing a challenge to anyone brave enough to race one of its trams, I was curious.
		Beamish recreates life in the north east as it was at two crucial points in the region's history, 1825 and 1913.
		Renaissance is the groundbreaking initiative to transform England's regional museums, led by MLA, the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council.
	www.24hourmuseum.org.uk /nwh_gfx_en/ART29214.html (1271 words)

	What´s on North East - Venues
		Beamish, The North of England Open Air Museum, where the past comes to life, is unique.
		Beamish, set in over 300 acres of beautiful countryside, vividly recreates life in the North of England in the early 1800s and 1900s.
		Beamish is able to provide free admission for the assistant to a disabled visitor – please contact the Museum for details.
	www.whatsonnortheast.com /venues.php?venue=174 (487 words)

	English Living Museums - Beamish Museum
		Situated near Durham, Beamish is a living museum that has set out to preserve the now largely declined industrial heritage of the north-east of England.
		Beamish Museum concentrates on the industrial history from two main periods, with Pockerely Manor and Pockerley Waggonway dating from 1825, whilst Home Farm, The Colliery Village, The Town and The Station are features from the later date of 1913.
		Beamish Museum is famous for the regular demonstrations of traditional crafts, such as sweet making, and everyone is offered delightful 'tasters' of the finished products.
	www.theheritagetrail.co.uk /industrial/beamish.htm (544 words)

	Services to Business
		Beamish, the North of England Open Air Museum, is set in more than 400 acres of beautiful countryside in north east England.
		The museum recreates life in the region in the early 1800s and 1900s and has won both the British Museum of the Year and European Museum of the Year Awards.
		Beamish has participated in this scheme for a number of years, with students gaining valuable experience in the museum, and making significant contributions to support the staff and their work.
	www.le.ac.uk /business/case_beamish.html (366 words)

	Beamish Open Air Museum, near Newcastle - UK, United Kingdom
		Because Beamish Open Air Museum is an amazing world, winner of the "European Museum of the Year" title.
		Beamish is a real town where visitors can see how people in the North of England lived and worked at the beginning of the 19th and 20th centuries.
		Beamish is to 19th century daily life what Pompeii is to the daily life of the Romans, but better, since everything is in working order:
	www.group-trotter.net /uk/places/beamish/beamish.html (432 words)

	Otherworld North East Forums > Beamish Museum Revamp- North East England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The row of cottages at Beamish are spotlessly clean, as were the original ones in mining communities.
		Beamish director Miriam Harte last night said: "This is a chance for us to step back and look at where we are and what we can do better.
		While I think it may be possible for Beamish to expand to represent the NorthEast as more than JUST a mining community and bring in other aspects of it, I think that modernising it would ruin what is there.
	www.otherworldne.org.uk /forums/lofiversion/index.php?t937.html (1436 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| Wear \| Mystery surrounds museum legacy
		Beamish head of fundraising Anne Burton said she received a phone call from a solicitor out of the blue 18 months ago to say the money had been left.
		The money from Mr Berry has been used on two of the museum's big projects - a 1913 Masonic temple and a replica of the Puffing Billy steam locomotive, which are both due to open to visitors at Easter, as well as a range of different projects.
		Beamish usually gets donations totalling £100,000 a year and legacies tend to be artefacts being left to the museum.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/wear/4133858.stm (545 words)

	The Beamish Museum – Frozen in times
		This account of how the common man lived in England is based on a museum called Beamish museum located in the Northeast of England in a little town called Stanley in the Durham County.
		Let’s begin our journey into the open-air museum at the tram station, which is near the car park.
		Of course one would expect big cities like London to have had a more sophisticated standard of living but by and large, the life of a commoner was pretty much the same all across England.
	www.travellady.com /Issues/October05/1898BeamishMuseum.htm (1183 words)

	Beamish Open
		The large Open Air Museum in the county of Durham is one of the finest in the country.
		Since established in 1970, the museum has continued to gain strength, as new exhibits are regularly introduced such as the replica of The Steam Elephant; a locomotive built in 1815.
		At Beamish there is a branch of Barclays, complete with brass grills at the counters and strong rooms in the basement.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /eileenmaud/beamish_open.htm (1283 words)

	Beamish Museum
		Welcome to Beamish, The North of England Open Air Museum, where the past comes to life.
		We're no ordinary museum but a living, working experience of life as it was in the Great North in the early 1800s and 1900s.
		Beamish, Britain's favourite open air museum, set in over 300 acres of beautiful countryside, vividly recreates life in the North of England in the early 1800s and 1900s.
	www.beamish.org.uk (163 words)

	Coach Trips to Beamish Museum (Coach Hire)
		It’s no ordinary museum but a living, working experience of life as it was in the Great North.
		's favourite open air museum, set in over 300 acres of beautiful countryside, vividly recreates life in the North of England in the early 1800s and 1900s.
		Winner of both the British Museum of the Year and European Museum of the Year Awards, it demonstrates the recent history of the region in a "living" way and provides entertainment and education for visitors of all ages and interests.
	www.coach-hire.com /5/beamish-museum.shtml (155 words)

	UK Fundraising \| Blogs \| UK Fundraising Newswire \| Beamish Museum
		Beamish, the North of England Open Air Museum in Co Durham, has launched an Adopt a Tram scheme for its collection of heritage trams.
		The scheme follows a successful tram sponsorship campaign where companies with long histories in the region were invited to have period advertisements painted on the trams.
		Anne Burton, Head of Fundraising, said, “The Beamish tramway is one of the most extensively used in the country with over a million passenger journeys a year.
	www.fundraising.co.uk /blogs/newswire/author/beamish-museum (291 words)

	Timothy Hackworth Victorian & Railway Museum-Entrance
		From a rostrum alongside the entrance, she declared the museum open, and posed for photographers at the entrance, before going inside for a tour of the museum.
		After unveiling the plaque to commemorate her visit and the opening of the museum, Her Majesty presented the museum with a signed portrait of herself which can be seen in the entrance of the museum.
		Beamish Museum was the final stop of the Queen Mother's tour of County Durham, to mark the 150th anniversary of the Stockton and Darlington Railway.
	www.railcentre.co.uk /museum/royalopening.htm (283 words)

	Beamish, The North of England Open Air Museum on AboutBritain.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Beamish is no ordinary museum but a living, working experience of life as it was in the Great North in the early 1800s and 1900s.
		The museum believes that the reality of human beings is better than technological virtual reality.
		Beamish is well signposted from the A1M, Junction 63.
	www.aboutbritain.com /BeamishOpenAirMuseum.htm (631 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| Pit museum plans £30m expansion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Beamish museum, which already brings in more than 300,000 visitors a year, recreates Victorian life.
		Beamish Director Miriam Harte said the plan to make the museum a "two-day experience" was not a new concept.
		She said: "We have no intention to alter the museum but to deepen and broaden the experience and the idea of the hotel is to make Beamish a destination, and this is a tried and tested idea if you look at some of the museums in the USA.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/3928951.stm (285 words)

	Beamish, The North of England Open Air Museum,
		This summer (2001) I went to Beamish, The North of England Open Air Museum.
		I have been to Beamish Museum a couple of times before this latest visit, and each time there's been something new to see.
		The Museum is set in over 300 acres of beautiful countryside.
	www.pitwork.net /beamish.htm (194 words)

	BBC - Tyne Days out - Beamish open air museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Beamish Open Air Museum is an extraordinary day out for the whole family.
		Take a trip on Beamish's trams and visit the manor house and farm complete with real animals such as horses, cows and pigs.
		Beamish - The North of England Open Air Museum, Beamish, County Durham.
	www.bbc.co.uk /tyne/days_out/go_places/beamish.shtml (397 words)

	The C2C Guide - the definitive resource centre for the Sea to Sea cycle route
		Beamish Open Air Museum - Winner of both British and European Museum of the Year awards, much of the County Durham's industrial heritage is preserved at Beamish, the North of England Open Air Museum.
		This section of the route is on the Consett to Sunderland railway path and the track itself is well surfaced and a joy to cycle even if the views are not as spectacular as the previous few days.
		The route passes just outside the entrance to Beamish museum and there is a varied selection of weird and wonderful sculptures along the way to keep you occupied if not a touch bemused.
	www.c2c-guide.co.uk /places/beamish.htm (514 words)

	BEAMISH 2000
		The idea for the Masonic Hall in Beamish, the North of England Open Air Museum came from Mrs Dorothy Hall, wife of W Bro Alan Hall, the Provincial Grand Secretary, and after preliminary discussions with Beamish a partnership was formed and the project launched.
		Unfortunately Beamish Museum was unable to put its funding for the project in place, and a delay of some four years was encountered before sufficient grants were obtained.
		The project was to be jointly funded by Beamish Museum and the Provincial Grand Lodge of Durham.
	www.durhamfreemasons.org /Beamish/opening.htm (1180 words)

	ClassicGaming.com - Game of the Week: The Adventures of Willy Beamish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Beamish finds a new job with the local soda company known as Tootsweet, but he is just being used by the company in a plot to take over the town.
		Willy Beamish hasn't been sold for some time, so it may be difficult to locate today.
		You can download it from sites like this one, but this may not be completely legal, so download at your own risk.
	www.classicgaming.com /rotw/beamish (856 words)

	Newcastle 501 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		All were scrapped except 501, which was retained by Newcastle Museum of Science and Engineering and kept for some time at Byker Depot.
		Restoration work commenced by the Beamish Tramway Group, with generous assistance from the Friends of Beamish and other well-wishers.
		Beamish Tramway Group hosted an evening visit from the NE Bus Preservation Trust at Beamish on Tuesday 22 June, and they brought Newcastle AEC Regent NVK 341 and Atlantean 221 JVK.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /andrew.burchell/Beamish/501.html (438 words)

	It's Terry Deary V The Tram In Beamish Museum Charity Race - 24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK museums, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It’s the ultimate contest, man versus machine: staff at Beamish, the North of England Open Air Museum, are inviting people to race one of their trams.
		Beamish recreates life in the north east as it was a two crucial moments in the region's history: 1825 and 1913.
		The institution is also a partner in the Renaissance in the Regions north east museums hub.
	www.24hourmuseum.org.uk /nwh_gfx_en/ART28799.html (907 words)

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