BEAMISH OPEN AIR MUSEUM

 The idea for Beamish Museum was that of Frank Atkinson, at the time the director of
Bowes Museum. he was seeing the disappearance of the industrial age and tirelessly sought to collect items and machinery from the time. He basically collected ‘anything’ from the early 20th Century and earlier.

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