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Beamish Museum: Entrance area

The entrance to Beamish Museum is on the south side of the site. The main vehicle entrance is through an arch, north into a large parking area. The entrance buildings are on the car park's north side, the other side of which is a stop on the tramway, which is at the bottom of its oval layout.

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Entrance archEdit

  • A former steam hammer, nicknamed "Tiny Tim", it was donated to the museum by the English Steel Corporation in 1966.
Object location 54° 52′ 45.68″ N, 1° 39′ 29.82″ W View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth

  • south side

  • south side

  • south side

  • south side

  • south side

  • south side

Car parkingEdit

Coach parkingEdit

  • Looking west across the coach parking area, entrance building on the right

  • Preserved Newcastle Corporation bus 501 (LTN 501) in the coach park section (car parks behind)

Chaldron wagon & stepsEdit

  • Mounted at the top of the steps from the car park down to the entrance
Object location 54° 52′ 53.1″ N, 1° 39′ 31.15″ W View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth

  • south side

  • south side

  • north side

  • north side

  • Also showing the entrance building

  • Seen from the bottom of the steps

Entrance buildingsEdit

Main blockEdit

Object location 54° 52′ 54.04″ N, 1° 39′ 30.93″ W View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth

  • South facade (fronting the car park

InteriorEdit

  • Symphonion music box

  • Friends of Beamish plaque

  • old advert signs

  • old advert signs

  • Tizer

  • Craven "A" cigarettes

  • Burma Sauce

  • Black Cat cigarettes

  • Carters Tested Seeds

Tram stopEdit

See Beamish Museum: Tramway#Entrance

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Last edited on 16 September 2016, at 23:46