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Beamish began as the vision of Dr Frank Atkinson, today it is one of the best Open Air Museums in the World! Beamish was the vision of Dr Frank Atkinson, the Museum’s founder and first director. Frank had visited Scandinavian folk museums in the early 1950s and was inspired to create an open air museum for the North East.
Beamish Museum is the first regional open-air museum, in England, [2] located at Beamish, near the town of Stanley, in County Durham, England. Beamish pioneered the concept of a living museum. [ 3 ] By displaying duplicates or replaceable items, it was also an early example of the now commonplace practice of museums allowing visitors to touch objects.
Frank passed away, aged 90, on 30 th December 2014. His museum continues to grow, with ambitious plans for the future, and remains a true legacy of the values and vision of its extraordinary founder. Frank Atkinson was the founder of Beamish, a true visionary, without whose amazing passion, determination and creativity the museum wouldn’t exist.
Beamish's purpose and guiding principles. Purpose: A living, working museum that uses its collections to connect with people from all walks of life and tells the story of everyday life in the North East of England. 3 guiding principles in how Beamish works: Putting our people first in everything we do. Genuine community engagement – enabling ...
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- Ouston
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- Thomas Hepburn
Beamish is best known for being the home of the Living Museum of the North. It was the brainchild of a Yorkshireman, Frank Atkinson, formerly the Director of the Bowes Museum at Barnard Castle, who began collecting artefacts related to the social and industrial history of North East England. His collections resulted in the foundation of a museum at...
Beamish has a name that goes back to Norman times when it was given its French name ‘Beau Mes’ meaning ‘beautiful mansion’. The original Beamish was probably located where Beamish Hall stands today. The landscape around is certainly of great beauty. There were still French connections in 1268 when one Guiscard De Charron became the Lord of Beamish....
It was Morton Davison of Beamish Hall who opened the first known colliery at Beamish in 1763. It was unusual because although it was only about 8 miles south-west from Newcastle and situated amongst coal mines that generally shipped coals to the Tyne, the coals from Beamish colliery were sent, “by means of fixed engines, inclined planes, and horses...
Despite the early development of collieries in the Beamish area, the pit village south east of Beamish Hall saw most growth in the second half of the nineteenth century. The 1860s map shows there were at that time only a few houses and buildings in the area. One notable building that is still there today is The Shepherd and Shepherdess Inn. The pai...
A short wagonway once linked the Beamish Wagonway to East Stanley Colliery, also known as ‘Beamish Colliery East Stanley Pit’ and close to here was built a small street of four cottages called No Place that was already in existence by the mid nineteenth century though how the place got its name is a matter of dispute. One view is that the houses st...
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. Beamish Burn is in fact the upper stret...
Pelton, Ouston, Urpeth and High Handenhold are villages and hamlets between Beamish and Chester-le-Street. Kibblesworth Common and the wooded valley of the River Team separate Urpeth and Ouston in the Chester-le-Street area from Kibblesworthvillage in Gateshead Borough to the north. Urpeth, near Beamish has an Anglo-Saxon name meaning ‘path of the ...
Ouston to the north of Chester-le-Street and west of Birtley was originally called Ulkilstan and still known by that name as late as 1244. It was the settlement of Ulfkil. The word ‘stan’ in the name means ‘stone’ and is thought to refer to a boundary stone of some kind. Ulfkil is a Viking personal name, making Ouston a rare Viking place-name in no...
Pelton to the south of Ouston traces its origins to Saxon times though the meaning of the name is disputed. It could mean ‘village with a palisade’ or ‘village near the shovel-shaped hill’. It apparently refers to a shovel of triangular shape – if any of the local hills can be described as resembling such a shape. Pelton village is situated on Pelt...
Pelton’s most famous son was Thomas Hepburn, a miners’ leader born here in 1796. As a young boy he lost his father in a mine accident at Pelton but by the age of eight Hepburn was working in a coalmine at Fatfield on the banks of the Wear, later working at mines at Jarrow and Hetton. He founded the Northern Union of Pitmen in 1831, an alliance of t...
May 26, 2024 · May 26, 2024. Nestled in the rolling hills of County Durham, Beamish Museum is a unique and immersive journey into the past. This 350-acre open-air museum brings to life the industrial and social history of North East England during the Georgian, Victorian, and Edwardian periods. Through its reconstructed buildings, landscapes, and lively ...
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Jun 26, 2022 · 10. The Great Legacy. The Beamish Museum is influential in the Black Country Living Museum and more widely in the museum community. It is a significant educational resource locally. It also demonstrates its benefit to the local economy. The museum has created a lasting bond between the museum and the community.
