What a bonanza for Beamish! A massive £10.9 million Heritage Lottery Fund grant for an impressive project to improve its offer and at the same time to engage as many people as possible along the way.
None of our readers will argue that Beamish is already brilliant – a centre of excellence in its engagement, interpretation, vintage restoration and display. Edwardian/Victorian and early 20th century imagery abounds, but this next planned phase of development that attracted the HLF so positively owes much to the preparation behind the scenes that ticks all the HLF boxes and makes any other museum ‘back of a fag packet’ request seem positively pedestrian.
A completely ‘new’ 1950s town is the centrepiece of the vision. Buildings of interest to be moved brick by brick, including a…
