Beamish Museum is an open air museum not far from where we live. It covers a large area and is made up like a small town from the North East of England at the beginning of the 20th Century. There is the coal mine, a school, the methodist chapel, pit villages - where the miners' families used to live, a station and shops. Some of the shops were taken from Annfield Plain, the village where T was born.

If you ever come and visit the north east, it is a great way of spending a day.

Luggage at Beamish station

Bettina on the station

Tim in the signal box

The signal box from the outside

The dentist's chair - with a foot propelled drill

The dental technician's room - where they made false teeth

The inside of one of the houses - with William Morris wallpaper (Bettina is William Morris's no 1 fan!)

B in the old Coop

The Annfield Plain Coop - Tim used to shop in here with his mother when he was a bit younger; before it was moved to the Beamish site.

B outside the sweetshop - it had to be a fast shutter speed to catch her outside it - 1/500th of a second after this picture was taken, she was inside trying all of the cinder toffee and boiled sweets that they were making!

B on the tram that is the main form of transport around the site

T training for his new career as a tram driver

T trying to decide on his new car - this is a replica of the locomotion, which was built by George Stephenson.