Beamish Living museum

My next 2 blips are going to be of Beamish. We went there yesterday. It's just outside Durham and it's an extraordinary place. It replicates the the start of the 1900's. There are trams, shops including a sweet shop where they demonstrate how they make boiled sweets. (you get to sample them afterwards), you get to see an original bank, dentists (that was a bit creepy), pub, hardware shop. There is also a mining village with a school. The highlight for me was actually going down a mine. I never fully appreciated the awful conditions that the miners worked in. Shocking. I recommend this as a day out. This photo was taken standing on a bridge when the steam train went past.