As material for the blog is a little in short supply at the moment, I thought that I would reflect upon one of our relatively…
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…
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…
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…
For the first time in some months we have a post that doesn’t feature buses! The visit of Glyder’s owner, alongside the arrival back at…
I hope readers will forgive another round of images featuring Crosville 716… We visited the bus today to view progress and discuss some of the…
There is, it has been pointed out, a danger of this blog becoming the Beamish Bus Blog – somewhat inevitable, perhaps, given the only transport…
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…
The schools have gone back and we are now contemplating operations under the new ‘normal’ outside of the school holiday period. The weather has been…
The summer holidays are now drawing to a close and with school children anticipated to return to school next week, this weekend (a bank holiday…
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…
This is the twentieth post since we closed in March, so I thougth I would start with thanking everyone who contributed to the blog during…
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…
Beamish has a long association with the railway preservation phenomenon of ‘new builds’ – the term used to describe replicas or recreations of locomotives that…
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…
The last week or so have been particularly busy at work, so the blog’s rate of updates has suffered accordingly! The planning and preparation for…
The Beamish Cycle Collection – Part 4 More Than Two Wheels and/or Seats by Ian Bean As you will have seen in parts 1, 2…
At this time, with the museum closed, there is very little news to report. However, there are various queries that have arrived, or observations that…
The Beamish Cycle Collection Part 3 The Safeties by Ian Bean This instalment looks at the development of the Safety, with specific reference to some…
The Beamish Cycle Collection Part 2 The High Bicycles by Ian Bean We saw in part 1 how the velocipede had started to develop to…
The Beamish Cycle Collection Part 1 The Wooden Wheeled Machines by Ian Bean The important and diverse collection of cycles at Beamish has not received…
I regularly search online for negatives or prints relating to the transport collections at Beamish. Seaham Harbour is a particular favourite and over the years…
Street maintenance implements *Updated 29th April 2020* In this post I’m taking a look at a theme that began to develop ten or so years…
Updated 22/04/20 In order to generate some content for the blog, I thought I’d take a look at the things I have been meaning to…
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