
While working through the collections cataloguing recently, Julian Harrop came across these scenes of Seaham Harbour, showing work on the construction of the concrete staithes…

Here is an exciting press release from the Tramway Museum Society… We are excited to announce in our 50th year of running electric trams at…

Its been another of those weeks which starts with Monday and seems to reach Friday without any sense of the passage of time in between,…

As we rapidly approach the mid-year point, here are some photographs of just two of the activities we in the T&I team have been busy…

Today Tony, Brian and I met a party from Historic Vehicle Restorations and our Leyland Cub’s previous owner for a session preparing it for collection…

The owner of Edward Sholto has had the injectors for the engine overhauled, at some expense, to remedy the original reason for it being taken…

It seems that we are busier than ever at the moment and it is hard to remember everything we have going on in the T&I…

A new car has joined the working collection at Beamish, having been purchased from an accomplished car restorer in Staffordshire. The aim is to provide…

I have alluded to the new accessible bus that we are creating at Beamish, based on Leyland KP2 Cub Crosville No.716. Here is a little…

We are nearly halfway through the year now, and I have adopted a week number for the blog heading to differentiate general news from feature…

The 22nd June saw a hugely popular open day at Seaham Harbour, featuring our own Coffee Pot No.17 and a chaldron waggon alongside a selection…

A slightly different weekly report, just to ring the changes on endless workshop views that otherwise rather dominate the blog! You can also find new…

The weeks seem to pass faster and faster, this week being no exception and it is hard to believe it is Friday once again, with…

There is lots to report on this week, both activity on site as well as coming up away from the Museum, plus a glance over…

With all of the news about the future developments to the forefront of our minds, here is a look around at the projects that continue…

As promised in an earlier post, here is a look at just some of the proposed developments that we hope to be creating at Beamish…

It seems like a while since I reported on any visits to other sites of transport interest, so here is a quick delve into some…

Followers of this blog will know that for some time we have been developing our forward plan, looking at such areas as developing the Georgian…

Another snapshot into life in the RHEC on a typical Friday…!!! I will look at developments on R025 as part of the next ‘Rolling Restorations’…

Here is a miscellany of bits and pieces that I haven’t fitted into some of the other recent posts here… RHEC Below: We haven’t mentioned…

It has been a few weeks since I reported on Samson’s progress, so here is a synopsis of recent, exciting, progress… Below: The drain cocks…

In recent months I have bought, usually via e-Bay, numerous images of relevance to the Transport and Industry collections at Beamish. Some show exhibits in…

As usual, here is the usual round-up of news from the Transport side of things around the Museum. More to follow next week… Below: Some…

A bit of an eclectic mix of information in this post, covering some recent material of relevance to the ‘Rolling Restoration’ thread on this site….

We have a constant flow of donations coming into the museum, however, this week we had some more unusual items to add to the museums…
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