Beamish Museum in the North East of England is an absolutely fantastic day out for all the family.  It’s an outdoor museum set in the 1800s/early 1900s and, as you arrive at the site, an old-fashioned tram system allows you to hop on and hop off to visit all the different places in the grounds.  There’s a town, railway station, manor house, farm, colliery and miners cottages – but it’s the fantastic attention to detail that makes it all such fun ………

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