We’ve reached the summer half term holiday, including a Bank Holiday Monday within it, and the museum has certainly become much busier. We had targetted…
A short post this time, as much of the progress made is a continuation of work seen previously, including Gateshead 10, whose engineering challenges are…
Monday 17th May marked the beginning of Step 3 in the Government roadmap for easing lockdown restrictions. As part of this, we are now able…
Last week Beamish reopened, though not without a few dramas along the way (as might be expected when waking any site from a period of…
I should start with an apology – it has been quite a length of time since the last post on the blog – largely as…
Here is a news-worthy post on here for a change! A new addition to the vehicle collection… Murton Colliery Cooperative Society Mobile Shop Around two…
This will be the last general news post of 2020, with a review of the year to be posted next week. Depending on time, I…
We now reach December, and with the end of the national lockdown but in practice little to relish as the region enters a period of…
It is hard to believe that it is mid-November already! I was writing up some notes for the next edition of the Beamish magazine (which…
Well, no sooner had I said ‘staff returning from furlough’ the whole picture changed as the UK Government announced further restrictions, which brought about the…
As members of staff return to work from their lengthy furlough, the workshops and technical teams are assessing the engineering and transport systems as we…
Once again it has been a bit tricky finding news to report on this blog, as the transport situation remains static, with the two Daimlers…
The present level of opening, with many staff still furloughed, means that there is little change one day to the next in terms of transport…
There has been very little to report on the transport blog lately (for obvious reasons), meanwhile the operation of the museum in these new and…
The blog has been a little quiet lately, but this has been due to the extensive behind the scenes preparations ahead of the announcement (and…
Following the success of the series on the museum’s cycle collection, we now have another guest author appearance from two Friends of Beamish engineering volunteers…
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