Time travel?

This picture shows another of my recent trips . . . back to 1913. Yes, for it is possible at the North of England open air museum, aka Beamish (opened 1971) . Here, in the countryside not far from Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, are 300 acres of various times and places in Industrial Northern England's past. The above shows a recreation of a 1913 town, with high street (all shops present), bank, park, pub, garage, terrace housing, tramway (visible) and masonic house! The inside of the buldings have been recreated and furnished too, then you are free to explore talking to actors dressed up in period costume to learn about life back then.

There is also a 1913 pit village and mine, a short antique bus ride away, where you can descend into a drift mine or visit a school and church. If thats not enough there is an old railway station (moved in whole and re-built from its 1867 site at Rowley), a farm, Victorian era country manor house, and mock up of a pioneering steam wagonway.

The museum is well worth a visit and despite being quite expensive, it is a whole day out to see everything, and £3million annual running costs have to be found somewhere.