I am lucky enough to be local to Beamish. It makes me so proud when I visit to see people learning about our local history. We often see coach trips from cruise ships visiting. I have family possessions that were donated to the museum in its founding years so it always holds a special place for me. Thank you for visiting and encouraging others to learn about my ancestors way of life

Nothing more heartwarming than beamish school trips. Best times ever and I hated school 😂

Just FYI, Beamish has been used for filming scenes in lots of films and TV series. Many of the Catherine Cookson episodes were filmed here too.

That was a fantastic experience. Thanks for sharing this with us. Good commentary by the way ! More plz. 😊😊😊

If you loved Beamish you have to go to St Fagans, it's the same sort of thing but Welsh history, it's really brilliant. It's near Cardiff and they actually take the original historical buildings and rebuild them in the outdoor museum piece by piece, with original fixtures and furniture. It's actually incredible the work they do saving these buildings. It's one of my most favourite places and it's huge with a castle and medieval church to name some of the buildings.

It's great to see you visit Beamish Museum, its local to me and I have paid many a visit here over the years as a child and adult, so many school trips, family days out and visits with my partner. We sometimes just go for a walk around and some sweet treats or fish and chips. You've gone at the right time with the recent opening of the first section of the 1950's town. I'd highly recommend returning at Christmas as it is wonderul! Also my grandad has played the organ in the church several times over the years. 😊

Ahh, memories of Frys five centres. They used to do a bar with one orange, one mint ,one strawberry, one coconut and one raspberry segment in each bar which you can't get anymore

Old Son! Just watched this Vlog. As usual it was entertaining. I've never been. However, from what I've seen, it reminds me of The Black County Living Museum, in part. Especially some of the buildings, the insides of the houses etc. Very similar. Hope to go up there soon, Old Son.

Always makes my day when I see either adventure Shawn or theme park worldwide uploads.🥰

Omg, i remember going to Beamish as a child about 3 times, we used to go at christmas time and it was magical at night in the dark with all the lights and they had reindeer and you could see Santa and they also had an ice rink. The last time we went, it snowed and that was magical. My favourite part was the sweet shop where we always got cinder toffee and watched them making rubarb and custard. Glad you enjoyed it!!!

My favourite part of this place was always the sweet shops. I always loved seeing them pulling the old-school toffee on a hook!

Nice to watch this Shawn! And to know I met you in the metro centre the next day is awesome! I’ve just got back from filming videos on Poland and getting trains from city to city had the best time! Keep up the awesome videos Shawn!

I adore this place!! I used to be a local and then I moved over 300 miles south :( However went up for a week and went back! It was amazing!

Love your history vlogs, this is a museum i have been wanting to visit for ages, so great to be able to get to see a vlog of it, it makes me more determined to do it.

Amazing!!! It is so cool and fun to see the historic display of the times! I grew up in the USA Southwest and saw all of the old pioneer/western towns...But Nothing like Beamish! Best I have ever seen!!!!! Thank you for sharing such a fantastic place!!

First rate and comprehensive blog. My daughter and I are up from London on 19/6/24 four days to Newcastle and to see Beamish two days . Time permitting its off to Durham.

Shawn and Charlotte, Absolutely wonderful place, a real step into the past! Cheers, Rik

Beamish is more than a good day out , my first visit I spent half a day then came back for another 4 days seeing something different every day , then returning yearly and still seeing different things each year , it is continually evolving and changing

We love Beamish! We were one of your followers who recommended it to you! We live 60 miles away and visit 5 or 6 times a year on our season ticket - amazing value. We recommend the restaurant in the town. Their roast beef is amazing! You really can’t do Beamish justice in a single day! But you did a great job! We like to chat to the knowledgeable staff and take our time soaking up the atmosphere! And eating and drinking! I first went to Beamish with school in 1974 not long after it opened. Apart from the fact that there’s loads more, it also means that history is still current. Older people visiting in 1974 would actually have remembered the town era circa 1911. That is now the case of the new 1950s exhibit. And a 1980s exhibit is planned some time in the future… Try visiting The National Coal Museum near Wakefield. You’ll love that too!!

my family are local and been going there since i was a kid, well well worth the money for what you get and the staff are amazing

I love this place, I'm definitely going sometime, the old trams and buses are so beautiful, buildings too.

I love Beamish. I did a placement there and did you know people who work there actually live inside the museum? Only a handful of people but it’s really cool.

Aww this was amazing Thankyou so much for sharing this! Iv wanted to go here for a while now my parents live in Northumberland now so this is on my list to visit. I had no idea the place is so vast! Definitely needs a full day and maybe another visit to take everything in properly, I enjoyed watching this so much! I think I would be more starstruck with you both now than any other celebrities or film stars after watching all these videos of you this past week! 😂 your both so genuine with such a kind uplifting soul 😊❤❤xx

Can’t believe you have never been to Beamish before, it’s probably the most visited tourist attraction in the North East of England !! Saying that I’ve not been myself in a long time, used to go on school trips here and been a few times with my parents

We live quite close and go often. Such a brilliant place. Feet are aching by the end tho lol. Glad you enjoyed your time in the NE guys

Bemish is unreal lovely place 50s village is so so good fish and chips are on point 👌

You should try and get back up, there is loads of new bits to see now. Nearly all of 1950s section is open with the last bit opening soon. Love beamish been going there for years, saying we live 30 minute drive away 😊

Years since I went, I love the fact it has a masonic lodge. Very very very cool.

Great Vlog as always Shawn and Charlotte

I’m pleased you went to Beamish Museum and it’s an interesting place to visit.

Hmm interesting. We have one nearby called Black Country Museum, which is mostly outdoors too. Shows old style buildings etc, they have a mine they take you down in tour groups etc. Have old fashioned trams too. You can pretend to go to school again, they do roleplay of you attending with a piece of slate and chalk to use to write on instead of pen and paper lol & the Bonus of the museum is there’s an actual fish and chip shop in the museum! (Don’t think it’s anywhere near as big as Beamish, but it’s near where I live so I got to represent it).

No way?! I work at beamish now wish I’d seen this sooner , the cinema and tavern are opening soon!

Yeah they run steam locos down to that station. I think its something like quarter of a mile of track, shuttle just with one coach when I visited.

fab really enjoyed this blog we live very near Beamish but don't often go it was nice to see what is new keep up the good work

excellent video Shawn and Charlotte from Beamish Museum in County Durham for our first ever visit! Beamish is a HUGE open-air living museum spread across a 350-acre site and features a variety of different buildings, equipment, and working vehicles! Join us for a full tour of Beamish including footage from on board the wonderful trams! We also enjoy fish & chips and much more as we experience this fantastic attraction for the first time! keep the good Adventure up on the channel both of you Shawn and Charlotte, I can't wait to see the next Adventure from some were.

The small ones are Shetland ponies and the big black on is a shire horse what pulls carts

24:43 Love the vintage Shell Station sign from the early days.

Great vlog Shawn and Charlotte. I’ve always wanted to visit this museum but have never got round to getting up to that part of the country. So nice to see all the vintage vehicles, buses, trams and trains. Love the layout as well including the beautiful old buildings and streets. A real step back in time almost like a time machine 👌😉

Love this Shawn. It's many years since I went to Beamish and won't be able to go again. Thank you.

A Rural Policeman Constable was assigned to a Village and a special house was provided for Lodging. They tended to integrate better within the community and became trusted and popular.

Went there with my junior school back in the 80's changed a lot.

Fantastic video of Beamish, my fav place to have a day out. I live 5 miles away and go at least once a month. I was just there on Wednesday and with it being -3 degrees there were no queue's anywhere and all the buildings had big roaring coal fires which was brilliant. 😀

Wow.

I'm a costumed exhibit demonstrator at Blists Hill Victorian Town in Telford. Beamish is on my bucket list.

Awesome it was

Very cool tour S&C thanks for taking us along! We have outdoor Museum in my home state that my dad and I toured one time. But yours is much more massive! Of course our country is just a baby in comparison 😆😘p.s. you mentioned the bakery was actually baked goods how they used to be back in the day. But you didn't take us inside. Well I haven't finished watching yet maybe you have. Be interesting to see what is different. Would probably be really yummy because no processed food whatsoever would be in that yum yum

One of the chip shops is located in the old pit village where you first went, behind the school and the other one is in the new 1950's town

What a Fab Vlog. I’d heard about this place a few years ago but completely forgot about it. I’m gonna look for local B&B’s and plan a trip. Nice One 👍🏻

Went there a few weeks ago and loved going there! Hope to go back at some point. 😌 You should visit Blackpool zoo at some point!

Thanks for sharing, we went 3 years ago, interesting to see what's developing. It seems quite a bit busier now. It is a super day out.

Thanks both of you for this. Its a museum I have always wanted to go to and I cannot believe how cheap it is.

I feel it is very similar to Black Country Living Museum in Dudley but they appear to do more displays and yo can be a pupil in the classroom, unless you just didn't have chance to show these. Remember seeing Beamish in Downton Abbey.

What a great video. I have been to Beamish many times and always enjoyed it. I loved your commentary. I’ve now subscribed.👍

Wow! Never hear of the place until now. Looked amazing! Cheers Shawn.

I love beamish, I saw me on here and had no idea u were on the tram the same one as me

Seems pretty similar to the black country museum near Birmingham which I would recommend because they also have a fairground with lots of classic rides to try out as well

Excellent video - hope one day to go to the museum and thanks for your great videos

Loving this vlog this place looks great reminds me of the black country museum in dudley xx

Me and my nephew went to beamiish today my nephew is also disabled really enjoyed it beamish has a old buus which has been converted to take wheel chars we would like to thank the two people who went above and beyond call of duty to help us around the museum we will be definitely back one peace of advice take a packed lunch as it can be really busy thank you beamish for a brilliant day out

I have been down with my mum and dad it's was a very good holiday in Newcastle

Beamish is just absolutely amazing I live in Poole but go at least once a year, one of my favourite places!! 😍

I love this place so much to see.remindse of York museums. Glad you both experienced xx

Also the classic fish and chips in news paper was my favourite too

The Downton Abbey Christmas special was filmed here 😄

You really need to visit the Black Country Living Museum. Go down the mine and take a ride on the canal (the cut). Home of the Peaky Blinders 😊

Some of the shafts at the mines at Seaham/ Dawdon, The Nac, Vane Tempest. were 2.3miles down and 3 miles out under the North Sea

One of the best value days out you will ever have.Go and enjoy.👍

St helens church at beamish when it was in Middlesbrough.eston cemetery my uncle was last person to have his funeral there! It got burt down and relocated to beamish need to visit Beamish again soon.

I love Beamish, it’s a great place. Glad you had a great time.

In future if you have already got your yearly membership pass and pre booked your time slot there's a little green hut at bottom of entry path that will stop you having to que and go right threw building. Also the Christmas and Halloween events are amazing always a sell out.

Really enjoyed this vlog, didn't even know this place existed. It looks amazing and so beautiful in parts. I love visiting the National Trust park around the UK but I think I will start looking for places like this. A great place to show my children, what life was like in the past plus the fish and chips looks so good and not bad for the money. Thank you both for showing us places like this 😍

Many of the buildings where taken from the local area, they numbered the bricks as they where taken apart and they rebuilt them onsite.

Beamish really is the jewel in the crown of the North East. For those who've never been, allocate a whole day to visit. Plus, talk to the staff in costume. You'll get so much more out of your visit if you do.

I loved coming here at a teenager thought it was so much fun, blists hill is also great.

I am in the video walking and met them that day

Love beamish one of my favourite places to visit my son loves the old transport

It’s brilliant here, I went here in 2018! We stayed at the nearby Premiere inn and went here. I remember they sold us some Delicious Pineapple sweets 😁! We also got ‘Dab and chips’ Here Which is presumably a Jordy phrase (I don’t know cos I’m From Yorkshire) This place is amazing, it gives you a rough idea of what life was like in the olden days!

Interesting to see the saddle tank loco in the engine shed being for the Yates Duxbury paper works in Heap Bridge, Bury - I wondered what it was doing all the way up at Beamish, but looks like it's normally resident at the East Lancs Railway, but has been on loan to Beamish for a couple of years. The whole place has a similar feel to the Black Country Museum in Dudley

What a great vlog always wanted to go now after seeing this I will have to get there it looks fantastic

Some of the catherrine cookson films were filmed at Beamish. Its very similar to the black country museum and the iron bridge museum and the living museum in Yorkshire.

Really enjoyed this vlog will definitely be planning a trip back to beamish not been since school in the 90s and they’ve added lots more things. X

If you liked Beamish, you should definitely come to the Black Country Museum! It’s not far from you both and is an amazing day out. I’ve been there lots as I live near. Bits of Peaky Blinders was filmed there too, just incredible!!😊

I’ve been twice it’s amazing!! hope you both enjoyed it me & my family went last year and recently😊

Seeing the school did make me think about Dennis Potter a bit (Stand Up, Nigel Barton; The Singing Detective)

Bless you both x

I just went today It’s really nice and I got a good photo of the town in the sunlight 5 stars for me but they need to sort out the long queues

I love it there as I used to live not far from there and the little houses are the same as my grandparents used to live in 👍

Hi guys Thanks for posting this. I’ve never been there

O aye. When next able to get to uk. Would like a couple of days there.. And believe that beamish does have it's own old strowger telephone system throughout the place. With 3 digit numbers. Maintained by a mr monkhouse . Watched your film with great interest. As worked in gpo many years ago. 👍💪

One of our favourite places. The harvest themed agricultural event is particularly good. You missed out on the trains though! The station does normally run a proper steam train. Puffing Billy is amazing. It's a replica of an original first generation locomotive and the brutal iron shod cart wheels are a real Grand National style rough ride! Lastly the chips are amazing because they are cooked in beef fat instead of vegetable oil.

Would love to see this but it’s over a four hour drive from where I stay. Maybe one day. Thank you for the interesting video

Brilliant stuff!

9:45 - I can confirm this room is comparable to an experience at a Blackpool B&B.

Very interesting shawn Charlotte gd to see u guys great vlog shawn

My dad used to play at that band Heton band

The Yorkshire Sculpture Park at Wakefield would be a good one to film that is outside but it also has an indoor section.

Today I am going and I love we go every year

Your Courthouse/ Town Hall is actually a Freemasons Lodge and was not there for the first 25/ 30 years of the Museums life. It is a very fine example of such a building and the Lodge room that you were in , which had a balcony which I suspect had a spiral staircase to access it is of specific dimensions and layout for the ceremonies the brethren would have worked there. It is considered to be one of Beamishes Gems.

Downtown Abbey was filmed here a few times were the car garage are. Glad you both enjoyed your experience. Me and my partner been many of times the ice buns are really nice 👌 🙂

I love watching your channels, I would love to see you cover some heritage railways and trams.