Beamish, Part 6 – The Colliery

October 9, 2018

And from the village you pass into the colliery. In the red building the carts of coal ride up the elevator to be dumped into the waiting rail cars. Some of which are in great condition Lanterns for the mine And tags.  If you’re tag was on a peg, you were out of the shaft. […]

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Beamish, Part 5 – The Pit Village

October 9, 2018

The village area is aimed at depicting a typical  village of the early 1900’s. We began at the music hall. Across the street, after the pony stables was the school It took me a bit to figure out that this was a projector. And Davy’s still uses the old coal-fired stoves to heat the fish […]

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Beamish Part 4, Farm house – 1940’s

October 9, 2018

Stepping from the tram brought me to the1940’s era farm depicting life in the North of England during WWII.

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Beamish Part 2, The manor house

October 9, 2018

The next stop was the manor house represents the home of a well to do tenant farmer in the 1820’s. Complete with orchards, vegetable & herb gardens. Just behind the manor house sits a workers cabin The church is typical of the era but on the stones in the back the numbers were put three […]

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Beamish Part 1, The town.

October 9, 2018

Beamish is an open air museum near Newcastle, England the initially shows what the country was like in the 1800’s but is expanding to the 1940’s and soon 1950’s. The museum’s guiding principle is to preserve an example of everyday life in urban and rural North England at the climax of industrialization in the early […]

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Beamish Part 3, The Waggonway

October 9, 2018

As best as I can determine a waggonway was the interim method of hauling coal, miners up & down shafts and other heavy loads prior to the steam locomotion.  Originally horse powered they soon added steam A little out of time this vehicle was being used by an electrician today.

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A wee Independence Parade in Edinburgh

October 7, 2018

By wee I mean huge!  There were at least 60,000 plus marchers and a solid 20 protesters waving the Union Flag. From my position on the Royal Mile I watched as people tramped by for over 2 hours.  I had heard that the rally was happening after I arrived in Scotland so I decided to […]

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Nairn & Culloden

October 6, 2018

The breakfasts at the Plockton Inn are hands down the best I’ve ever had.  With a dollop of haggis the Full Monty is turned from an English Breakfast to a proper Scottish one.  The smoked kippers are delicious and one shouldn’t let a few wee bones put you off.  Scrambled eggs with the smoked salmon […]

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Surprise Music Session

October 4, 2018

There is always a music session on Thursdays year round and during the summer they add one on Tuesday.  I did not expect there to be one in October but it has been a very busy season Kenny told me, so they want to keep us punters happy. So when I saw the sign outside […]

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More wandering in Plockton

October 2, 2018

Today I was hoping to go way up to the mast where I took the photo on my website’s opening page but one should only do that on a dry, clear day to make the journey safer and the view better.  It being neither dry nor sunny I opted for a walk in the woods […]

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