This week has certainly been a warm one! Looking at some of the track on site, we’ve had a fair bit of distortion in the…
We’ve a strong engineering bias to this week’s post. Matt has been taking detailed photographs of various processes that are often referred to but not…
Below: A few years ago we were put in contact with a member of staff working at Foxton Locks (owned and operated by the Canal…
The weeks are becoming busier as the teams get into their stride with the backlog of maintenance jobs accrued over the last year or so. …
We are delighted to announce that the Association for Industrial Archaeology has made an award of £15,080 towards the £16,756 cost of restoring a 1927…
There are usually, with most projects at the museum, a raft of talented craftspeople working on discreet elements of the final exhibit, bringing their own…
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…
Hello and welcome to the blog. The clocks have changed, we’re enjoying some warm, sunny weather, and we look forward to the first stage of…
Coffee Pot 2010 to the present – and its 150th anniversary Welcome to Part 3 of this series looking at the history, restoration and ongoing…
Coffee Pot – Restoration to working order, 2008 – 2010 Welcome to Part 2 of this three-part history of Head Wrightson Coffee Pot No.1, which…
Part 1: Coffee Pot No.1 1871 – 2004 2021 sees the 150th birthday of one of my favourite artefacts at the museum – Head Wrightson…
Happy new year and welcome to Beamish Transport Online! As readers will no doubt realised, news is a little thin on the ground at the…
Regular readers of the blog will no doubt be aware that wherever possible, I try to obtain (by donation or purchase) images of the collections…
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