Beamish Museum, England

Beamish is a world famous open-air museum telling the story of the people of North East England during the Georgian, Victorian, and Edwardian periods. The museum's guiding principle is to preserve an example of everyday life in urban and rural North East England at the climax of industrialisation in the early 20th century.
Beamish has three replicated locomotives which pull recreated carriages. Today the 1815 Steam Elephant was on duty.

We also took a tour of the Mahogany Drift Mine, a coal mine original to the site. Drift mining is the working of coal seams accessed by a near-horizontal passageway in a mine, following the bed of coal. This kind of mining is done when the coal is on the side of a hill.

There were a few samplers in some of the houses (with the usual glare problems necessitating weird camera angles).

Notice the unusual hair on Adam and Eve.

There were also a few pieces of embroidered clothing.

And a neat collection of candy and cookie molds.

They also have an amazing collection of quilts. These are just a few of them.

And so another great trip comes to an end.

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