That's how fish and chips should be cooked. The difference in the taste is probably because it's been cooked in beef dripping/ fat. Which was the way it was done in Britain up until the 80s.
As a Englishman, I am always intrigued how Americans pronounce the town of Leicester in MA as "lester", but when they come to England, they say "lye-sester".
Oh, that is very kind of you to say! I actually mentioned something like that in last Friday's video about the village of Blockley in the Cotswolds. It is where Father Brown is filmed, and the church is a popular filming place. But I tried to remind viewers... it's a REAL church, so we should be respectful of it for the sake of the people who live in the village, those buried there, and out of respect for preserving history. I so admire that the people of the Beamish are trying to preserve history as well! Here is my Blockley vid, if you don't mind watching something from the South ;-) th-cam.com/video/_4we400lV64/w-d-xo.html Cheers! Dara
Thank you for this, last went to Beamish as a School boy in the 70’s left school in 1980 and started work down the local pit in County Durham at the age of 16. Joined the military in 1985 and have lived all over the country ever since. Seeing this has made me decide I need to visit again in 2023. Big thanks again. Also eaten Lots of fish and chips wrapped in newspaper.
Oh my goodness, I’m so glad you saw this video! I think you would love visiting the Beamish. They have so much new stuff there! And your experience being in the mines will make it extra special. Thanks so much for watching and leaving your comment! Dara
I'm so glad! I'm doing my level best to get the word out and encourage more Americans to discover County Durham as well as Northumberland. Of course, not too many, and no obnoxious ones! 😂 Did you see my video of Durham cathedral? I think it's one of the nicest videos on my channel. Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to leave a comment! Cheers! Dara
It's amazing how they dismantled so many local buildings from the region and painstakingly rebuilt them at Beamish. You really have to take your hat of to them! Also, it's a museum that will continue to expand as the years role on; it will be weird seeing items from my childhood, as they will no doubt have a 1960's or 1970's area at some point. Now that will make me really feel old!😄
Yes the work they do there is AMAZING! I am impressed how they continue to evolve and expand the museum. Haha, I look forward to the 1980’s town 😂😂 Hey guess what? I’m editing my Newcastle video now. Hopefully it will come out on Friday!👍
You should know that the sight of those fish and chips brought tears to my eyes. Originally from Newcastle but now in SC, real fish and chips is something we both (American wife and I) long for. Seems like a hundred years since I tasted that silky smooth fresh fish encased in crispy batter accompanied by chips, slightly browned and crisp on the outside and fluffy on the inside. Just can't understand how no restaurant we've visited in at least 6 states over the last 20 years is able to reproduce what in the UK is a "simple" food.
Your comment makes me feel both happy and sad, but thank you so much for watching my video and leaving your comment! You live in South Carolina now? They don’t even do good BBQ there! Lol. Forgive me, I am in Texas now and have to trash talk a little bit . We live in Gloucestershire during the summers, and have the opportunity to visit various parts of Britain. Eating delicious, fish and chips is a treat we really appreciate! And no, I haven’t eaten any fish and chips here in the states that compares. I hope you subscribe and watch some of my other videos…. It’s my favourite thing to hear from Britons in America and/or Americans about my observations! Happy Christmas! Dara
My Grandfather and Grandmother lived in a village ,called Mickley, in Stocksfield on the river Tyne. The house they lived in really only had one room downstairs No bathroom of any description with an outside toilet not luxurious, like in the back yard, but over the road, shared by several families! It was emptied a few times a week. The bath was a galvanised tub put in front of a large range. Coal fired which was used for all the cooking. There were no pit baths, so my Grandfather would come home absolutely black and bathe in front of the fire. Neighbours would drop in unannounced and chat, while he was bathing ! The main hobbies were pigeons and allotments. The pitmen were so used to crouching down with a pick in very low seams that they didn't stand up in ques, they all squatted down ! My Grandfather was " Mackie" Adamson. My mother Peggy Adamson. This was in the early 1940 ..50 s. Pit baths came in later !
Wow, thanks so much for sharing those family memories! That’s fascinating to hear. My mother grew up desperately poor in Missouri USA and had some similar lifestyle elements, but they picked cotton for a living. Mining adds a whole new dimension to how they lived. The bathing story is funny!!😂 Thanks for your comment! Dara
I'm from the north east, not far from Beamish. I moved to Somerset 21yrs ago, and still use bait for a packed lunch. I've even got my husband saying some Geordie words 😆.
Good for you! It’s fun to learn lingo from different regions 😉. We had a fabulous trip a few weeks ago to Somerset and Devon. I can’t wait to share those vlogs, but it might take me a while to finally have the time to edit all them… I also have a video I’m working on which involves interviewing people with different accents doing something silly. It should be fun 😉 Cheers! XX Dara
Thanks for the tour, I am now living in Western Canada but grew up in County Durham in the 50s & 60s, as a teenager I worked in a lead mine. The thing I remember is getting a bag of crisps with a little blue bag inside holding the salt that you sprinkled on the crisps.
Wow, a lead mine?! That sounds extremely dangerous in more ways than one!! I managed the Lay’s potato chip brand in the US for two years. People would occasionally mention wanting us to put seasoning packets in the bags of crisps. Interesting that you used to have them that way! Thanks for watching this video and taking the time to comment! I hope you also check out my Durham Cathedral video from last week, and this Friday is my video about Newcastle! I hope you subscribe and stick around 😉. Cheers! Dara
Absolutely loved your visit and tour of the Living Museum, reminds us of the Black Country Museum here in the West Midlands, of which we would also greatly recommend. Thanks for sharing, kind regards, Simon👍
Yes, we definitely need to visit the Black Country Museum! My hubby has deep roots in the Midlands. His dad is a Brummie and his mum is from outside Brum. Are you back in the UK now? Thanks for watching! Cheers! Dara
I grew up in Easington Colliery, a mining village in County Durham, and most of my family were miners. The year before I was born 83 men were killed in a fire damp explosion in the pit. Listening to a brass band play 'Gresford', the Miner's Hymn, is very moving. Look it up. The house I grew up in was a miner's cottage with a huge kitch range, fired by coal, where my mother cooked. It also has an outside lavatory - the Netty - in the back yard. The school I went to was very similar to that shown in your video. Thanks for your excellent video.
@@darrinslack1269 Hello Darrin. I probably wouldn't recognise the place now. I haven't been back to Easington since about 1972, though I still have folk in Sunderland.
Thank you so very much for your comment. I absolutely love hearing people's family memories. And I admire your father and family members for working in the mines... what dedication to supporting your family, despite the difficult and dangerous circumstances! How very tragic about the 83 miners killed in the explosion. When I read the story about the Durham mine accident and the role of Lead Kindly Light in their experience being trapped, I had to find that song to use in the video... it is so somber and chilling and sad! Thanks for telling me about Gresford as well. I'm glad that the Beamish exhibits brought back some childhood memories! Thanks for watching and commenting, as always! Looking forward to seeing what you think of Friday's Newcastle video. I just finished it and it was a BEAST! But it has a few funny bits, so I hope people like it! Cheers! Dara
We when there about a week back cant say new stuff is impressive very little to see and duse not captures imagination of the Time the museum on the hole whith other houses is top class and gives a deep sense of grate history we are very lucky to have it there is a second chippy further down and good
The 2nd chippy was closed when we were there. The newer areas are still in the process of being built out and completed. I think it is constantly improving. Thanks for watching and commenting! Cheers! Dara
Seeing the fish and chips wrapped in [fake] newspaper brought back memories of when they were wrapped in yesterdays old newspaper. There was a layer of fresh paper between the food and newspaper, but the grease still soaked through of course. I also remember in our immediate area, if you went to the 'chippy' and wanted fish and chips, you just simply asked for a 'paper'. This was very local, when talking to folk only 2 or 3 miles away, they thought that was weird! It seems the little bits of excess batter that you could request have a million different names around the country. [ I called them 'Scranchons' if memory serves me right - it's a long to time since I had them].
Ha ha, scranshons, now that takes me back, not heard that term in a long while. My dad, who was from South Shields, used to tell me of those when i was a kid. I think he missed them. He'd settled in Liverpool, and around our way the chippies didn't/don't do them. Breaks my heart to think they must've been just throwing them away. Other memories re F&C's in newspaper, I think they smelt so much better. The downside though, cos of the heat, and moisture, your hands would be black as the newsprint rub off on you. A small price to pay though 🙂
Glad that you enjoyed your visit to the North East. Bait was indeed in common usage as a term for a packed lunch (carried in a bait box) until about the mid-1980's. You still hear it but far less commonly than previously. In Northumberland you may also hear "scran" which means more or less the same thing Fish and chips were traditionally sold in Old newspapers because that was a readily available and cheap form of packaging for the sort of small scale, family business that traditional chip shops nearly always were. For health reasons packaging them in old newsprint was frowned upon by the seventies and more or less illegal by the nineties. Cinder toffee I have always known as cinder toffee, hokey pokey I know as an Ice Cream flavour which I associate with Yorkshire. (It's also the title of a very enjoyable song by Richard and Linda Thompson which you might like to check out.) Sorry to hear that you didn't get to check out the pit, if it's any consolation it gets very cold in there very quickly, even on the hottest of days.
With as hot as it has been, going to the Mahogany Drift would probably be welcome relief for a bit! Thanks for telling me about scran... I've never heard that! I have a Newcastle video premiering this Friday... hopefully you'll check it out! Thanks so much for your comment. Cheers! Dara
@@MagentaOtterTravels we used Scran in Liverpool, Lancashire. Now rejigged as Merseyside since early 1970s. eg. "What's for Scran"? What's to eat? Aged 82. Lancashire lass.
@@irenejohnston6802 Nice to meet you, Lancashire lass! I featured another Lancashire lass in this funny video: th-cam.com/video/RLzjVR4Vsss/w-d-xo.html We had a lovely visit to Liverpool last month. We even got to ride the ferry across the Mersey! I will be publishing videos about our visit eventually, when we get back to Texas. I’m currently in Austria eating sausages, schnitzel, and strudel! Lol Thanks for your comment. Cheers! Dara
I really love Northumberland and County Durham. I would highly recommend a visit there because the pace is so different and the countryside if different as well. And such amazing places to visit... Cragside, Bamburgh Castle, Durham Cathedral, Beamish... etc!
Hi and thanks, Magenta Otter Travels for sharing. Indeed, "Durham" in NC, US-the town of well-known universities-was mentioned in the chat, here is a charming and cozy town, Beamish situated in the beautiful countryside. This living and working museum is very fascinating...especially, dentistry...🦷I didn't know that the Downton Abbey movie was filmed there and now I am anxious to rewatch them to find the buildings in the movie. Your video has them all-a complete tour guides. Well done. I am glad that YT suggested the premiere of your channel for me. Again, thank you. 🙋♀🙋♀🛶🛶
Thanks so much for your comment! It was lovely to meet you in the premiere and get to know you a bit! I didn't even think about how the Raleigh Durham area of NC is a big university mecca... that is an interesting connection to Durham in the UK! I can tell you are American by how you spell cosy :-) To be fair, not a lot of Downton Abbey was filmed at the Beamish... but definitely the garage was. Like Harry Potter, bits of DA was filmed in loads of places! Including some Cotswold villages... which I have yet to visit! Always so much to discover! Thanks again for your lovely comment. Hope you are having a good week! Cheers! Dara
Like you I have also wanted to visit the Beamish Living Museum for as long as I can remember. Now thanks to your insprational video, I am going to visit it later this year. The way you have filmed it, is so professional, I thought I was watching an episode of Heartbeat, I couldn't work out where Nick Berry was! Seriously, if there was a TH-cam award for best photography of an historic vlog, you would get my vote!! 100 times better than an excellent video!!😊👍🥰✨
You are too sweet! Thank you so much! Be sure to remember that when you buy a ticket to the Beamish, you can return for free as much as you want for a year. So maybe split your visit over a couple days? Then you can eat more food too! haha The filming I"m really proud of was our Durham Cathedral video... my hubby's drone piloting was gorgeous. And the storytelling in yesterday's Newcastle video I thought was pretty fun as well. You know as a fellow creator that there is a balance between the technical audio/video stuff and then the narration and storytelling. It has been a fun learning experience for this old lady! haha Cheers! Dara
@@MagentaOtterTravels Thanks for the info on the Beamish Ticket Dara. It is always a pleasure to return the visit to someone who has visited my channel. It is I who should be thanking you, especially after all the Beamish info! Take care.
I love that you've covered Beamish. I'm a county Durham girl and would happily show you some sights in my town you'd love. The pub in Beamish is actually from my town xx
Great Video, im a County Durham native and i also visited Beamish in June 2022, with our relatives from the US...Needless to say they also were blown away by it😊
still loving your posts . and as for having fish and chips in newspaper i was born in 1955 so yes , but a liner was involved , as kids we would go into the chip shop no money and get a bag of the batter bits , hey it was free and better than crisps . thanks again for the videos
Wow, I didn't know you could get a bag of the scraps for free! They were serving them as extra topping in the chippy... they looked VERY tasty! But probably pretty fattening haha! Thanks very much for watching and commenting! Cheers! Dara
😆 “beesto” that tickled me… I might keep that one! I dearly love Beamish, visiting as a child in the 80s I was entranced by the 1900’s part of the museum
Great video! I live near Beamish Museum and was there just last week with a visiting friend. For others who are considering visiting the museum it's worth noting that your entrance ticket actually allows you to visit as many times as you want for a year, so if you can't fit the whole place in a single day, or miss the mine like you did, you can always just go back the next, or another, day.
Everybody who visits Beamish should purchase the guidebook; it is a wonderful publichation! It is packed full of information about the museum's exhibits!
I'm doing my best to let people know it is a wonderful place to visit! But don't worry, my channel is small enough I don't think I will contribute to over tourism 😉🤣
Thank you so much! It is a remarkable place! I’m so glad I was able to finally visit! ❤️ What county do you live in? I appreciate you watching and commenting! Cheers! Dara
Thank you so much! Did you watch last weeks video about Durham Cathedral? It has some wonderful drone photography as well as very interesting stories about the cathedral.😉 I really appreciate you watching the video and taking the time to comment 😊. Cheers! Dara
Live Museums/Musea are fantastic places to visit. We have a few here in the Netherlands too. They tell such a factual and visual story about times gone by. I loved the school benches. I sat in some exactly like that. The person behind me wanted to dip my ponytail in the ink well. Yes, fish&chips are tastiest wrapped in first unprinted the used newspaper. There is nothing like it anywhere to compare. Wonderful parks like the Beamish Museum are worth every ounce of energy to visit and I am always in awe of the dedication of the volunteers and paid staff for making these visits so memorable. 💖 👍 🇳🇿 🙋♀ 🇳🇱
I'm glad to know they have similar live, open air museums in the Netherlands. They are a wonderful "slice of life" and a look back in time! Thanks for watching, Anita! Cheers! XX Dara
The older we get, the more we appreciate the past. Its been along time since fish n chips were served in yesterdays newspaper. A few chips would always end up with a bit of print on them. Delish 🙃
Hello Dara & Ian. Sorry I’ve been out of touch for 2 month. Loved your vlogs about Pembrokeshire. I was in hospital and could only watch your videos but adding notes with my tablet is very difficult. One day I hope to go to Beamish, it’s been on my bucket list! We have similar sites here in South Wales. There’s St Fagans Folk Museum in the west of Cardiff. It doesn’t have trams but does have loads of rebuilt buildings over many acres. To the north of Newport in Blaenavon is Big Pit where you can go in a deep pit. North of Pontypridd at the foot of the Rhondda Valley is the Rhondda Heritage Park, again a deep mine where visitors can go down the pit.
Oh my goodness, Peter! I’m so sorry to hear you’ve been hospitalized! I hope you are lots better now 🙏 It’s wonderful to hear from you. I look forward to visiting more of these open air museums around Britain. 💖🇬🇧 Take care of yourself! Thanks for saying hello . Cheers! Dara
Oh I love this living museum! Reminds me of Williamsburg in VA. Fish & chips looked amazing, great price too! Ian saves the duck!!! 👏👏 Beautiful video Dara!~Cara 💖
We visited Beamish about 3 years ago, and we loved it. We didn't have time to eat the fish and chips, but the smell told us it was fried in beef fat (dripping). That is the best way. Not too healthy but delicious. No harm for an occasion.
So many people mentioned the fish & chips being fried in beef fat in the North... and I didn't know that! Very interesting! I need to visit Beamish again because we didn't get to all the areas... and I will definitely be eating at one of their chippies when I go back!
Such interesting places! How cool to travel back in time like that. Some of those advertisements posters are quite clever (get a hat). Good that the fish and chips was worth the wait, that was a long line! It looked amazing though. I haven't had those for quite a while but last one did come with a real newspaper-wrap, so i was able to read some of it on the fish itself. 😂 If we ever return to the UK, we will definitely put this place on our list.
Hey, I just noticed your new channel name! Sounds like you are going to be hanging out in CR for a while! Thanks for watching. Yes, the Beamish is a wonderful place... and part of the Northeast England region that is truly underappreciated! Cheers! Dara
@@MagentaOtterTravels Yes, we made some changes and more changes are in progress. 😄The new name does make it a bit more clear what is featured right now and it's easy to adjust to a new country name when the time comes. We do plan to move to a new country next year but we also still have tons of material and plans for our Costa Rica travel guide. 😊 The current running series is not even half way yet. 😅
@@BakkerfeelingAdventures I totally understand being buried in content... I have video clips from 15 months ago I'm trying to work into a video for next week!
@@MagentaOtterTravels Happy editing and all the best with that project. 💕👍The bright side of having so much material is that we don't have the need to go anywhere any time soon. 😉 And we have our house sit assignments set until beginnings of January. So editing time it is. 😅
I absolutely love your videos, Dara. Not only are the sights and topics enjoyable but your delivery and presentation are down-to-earth and companionable. Oh, and I do like best the ones which include Ian!! Many thanks from Eden Prairie, Minnesota.
Thanks so much, Elizabeth! I do love Ian participating in the videos... but he hates being in front of the camera. But if you watch our crazy homemade Hobnobs taste test (the intro to that one makes me laugh every time!), or the Marmite taste test, or some of our old chocolate taste tests, you can see Ian more eagerly participating! haha... when he is being fed! Have a great week! Cheers! Dara
I went to University in Durham and I like to go back as often as I can. I also LOVE visiting Beamish. I'm not sure if you mentioned it in the visit, but your entry ticket for the museum allows you entry as many times as you like in a year.
You are SO lucky to have attended uni in Durham! And yes, that is an amazing aspect of visiting the Beamish that you can return for free within a year. Good idea, since there is more than you can see in a single day!
Enjoyed the tour Dara. Not been there so good to see around. These types of living museums really do capture what life was like. Deffo Honeycombe her in Glos by the way. I remember eating chips from newspaper at my nans in Birmingham. Hope you are having a good week. 👍🏻🚶🏻♂️🚶♀️
I last went to Beamish about six years ago and it seems to have had a huge makeover since then. A lot more interactive than when I was there. This video definitely made me want to go back. Also not sure if anyone has mentioned this yet but Coleman's in South Shields does amazing fish and chips, and South Shields has some good history that you might be interested in.
Thank you so much for the recommendation! That is one of the great things about the Beamish museum is that they are constantly evolving and adding more. I hope you have the opportunity to go check it out and see what’s new. 💕 Cheers! Dara
We enjoyed your tour of Beamish, Dara and Ian. Loved seeing what life was there back then. Mining was tough, but I didn't know they had to eat "bait" for lunch! Loved the video. Thanks so much for bringing us along.
Thanks so much for joining the premiere! I thought of you when the Bait Shop scene came... you are from the Midwest fishing lakes area too! ;-) My dad always fished in Kenosha Wisconsin!
Aww I love Beamish ! We live local so visit A LOT 😊 my mom and dad took me when I was little and now I take my own son. He loves it just as much as us. It holds a special place in our hearts 🥰
It is truly a wonderful place! You are lucky to live close by! I know the feeling… As a little girl I went to the Museum of science and industry in Chicago and it was my favourite. I was so excited to have my own children one day and be able to take them back there to experience it 💕. Thanks for watching my video and commenting! Cheers! Dara
I live nearby and this is my go-for-a-walk place if I want a few hours of fresh air. It's great that it doesn't close in winter and there's plenty going on in the festive season.
Been a few times to beamish live not that far away enjoyed your travels around the North East of England been to alot of the castles my favorite is walkwirh Castle thank you for coming to the North of England
Thanks for your comment! Yes we love the Northeast! We stopped by several castles last summer, but didn’t have time to go inside all of them. Here is the video: th-cam.com/video/qIHDtP8Yt_8/w-d-xo.html Last week we went to the Northwest for the first time, visiting Manchester and Liverpool. Be sure you are subscribe so that you can join us for all our adventures. Cheers! Dara
The fish and chips looked great. I can't recall when they stopped wrapping them in newspaper here in Oz. The 70s perhaps? It was mostly white butchers paper by then as far as I can recall. What a cool historic site. I love it when the bakeries are operational. There's a historic gold mining town here in Oz, Sovereign Hill, which we visited when I was a kid and I still remember the yo-yo/melting moment biscuits I bought from the bakery. They were so good. The pub menu looked very similar pub menus here but the prices seemed comparatively very reasonable... then I remembered it was in pounds and more or less doubled it to get the good ol' Aussie dollar value and it was less inexpensive. But then, still possibly a bit cheaper than here nowadays. Who knew that we could go to merry old England for a reasonably priced feed? 😂
I love that you remember some biscuits that you ate decades ago! You are my kind of people 😉😂!! I didn’t realize you live Down Under. It’s so fun hearing everyone’s perspectives and memories!👍👍 as for food prices, I do find in general food to be less expensive here in Britain than in the states. To be fair, Beamish prices were a bit higher because of it being a museum. Thanks for your comments. Cheers! Dara
@@MagentaOtterTravels Yep, guilty as charged - Aussie as mate 😁 We've known go quite a bit out of our way for something as ridiculous as a slice of cheesecake (2 hours drive across northern Hokkaido in the depths of Winter. It was a great piece of cheesecake though). Or planned entire overseas jaunts around Michelin starred restaurants.😂
I agree that these type of museums are particularly fun as well as valuable! I admire the staff at Beamish for the amazing job they do. It is very well-kept! Thanks for watching 💕. Cheers! Dara
Bless you 💕…. Very kind of you to say! I work hard on my videos, because it is definitely a passion project for me! I might not have 1 million subscribers, but I feel like I have a really wonderful community of great subscribers. I am very thankful for them… The Magenta Otter Tribe!🙏
Glad you enjoyed your day out. One of the miners lamps at Beamish was donated by me, that had belonged to my father, an ex-pitman, and if you spotted a miner in the 1900’s area, cloth cap and kerchief, often singing old folk songs, that would be my brother, a retired doctor.
Aw, just seeing the trailer made us miss taking the T around. My partner actually used to be served fish and chips in a proper newspaper cone from the chippy of his childhood. Isn't that incredible? Awww... so sorry you missed the mine tour, but this was still so amazing to see! This place is fantastic! And thank you so much for the very lovely shout out Dara! That was too kind, and the ice cream looked amazing! Thanks for this great video!
Sorry, I forget to check my "held for review" folder regularly and this comment was trapped there! I'm so glad I could mention you... I definitely thought of you when I had that tasty ice cream!! I'm so tickled that your partner had newspaper wrapped chips from the chippy! Did he grow up in the UK?
Yes, I’ve heard that from other people as well. It must’ve kept the ink from getting on your food, but the newsprint was used kind of as insulation and packing material 😉
I grew up in Lobley Hill, which is just a couple of miles from Beamish. I used to go camping with the Boy Scouts, in Beamish Woods. I have lived in America since 1974. My parents were from nearby Stanley, County Durham.. My paternal grandmother died from TB at age 29, in 1925. She is buried in St. Andrews church, in Stanley. I live in Aberdeen, WA (near Olympia, WA).
You live in a place with a nice Scottish name, eh? I was born in Elgin Illinois and grew up in Dundee Illinois. Two more American places with Scottish names! Thanks so much for your comment. It was lovely to hear from you. I hope you enjoyed our little wander around the Beamish. I had been wanting to go there for years and it was so fun to finally see it! County Durham and Northumberland are some of our favourite places to explore. Just a beautiful area! I hope you are subscribed because I have some fun Northumberland content coming soon after a little time back in the Cotswolds. And I already have several lovely videos of Durham and Northumberland on my channel. Cheers! Dara
@@MagentaOtterTravels Thank you for your lovely reply. I am taking my fiance to England this May. She had never been there before. We are flying into Teesside airport, and renting a car. I want to take her to the places on your videos. I used to go on holiday to Seahouses, and Bamburgh. I was a fishing fanatic in my youth, and have fished a lot of the areas in your videos. Pitlochry and Kelso were favourite spots. I have a sister, and brother that still reside in the NE of England. Sister in Stanley, and brother in Chester-Le-Street, near Durham. My other sister lives in Ocean Shores, WA. She retired after many years in Pekin, Ill. Small world after all! Best wishes.
@@alneal100 wow, that is a small world! I am so excited to hear about your trip! You are going to have such a great time! I am trying to get back to editing my videos of Northumberland. Hopefully I can get one or two of them published in April... Enjoy your trip planning! It will be great to go visit your family as well as beloved places from your childhood!💗💗
Enjoying this very much Dara. That fish and chips look pretty special. Never been to the Beamish museum but it looks similar to Blists Hill in iron bridge that we went to a while back. Those biscuits in the bakery look amazing!!! Super Kneeder? Reminds me of a rude joke haha. Don’t care what you call it, honeycomb, cinder toffee, we love it!!! The Edwardian bathroom looks amazing. Didn’t know that about the Downton Abbey garage, never watched it, but interesting. Don’t think we’ll be visiting that dentist any time soon, but would definitely go to the ice cream stall. Nice shout out to Susan from Rhubarb and Cod. We’re fans too. Those basins are a bit weird! Promise we won’t spit on the floor when we meet up 😂 bad luck about the lack of mine tour, we missed the mine at Blists Hill too. Lovely tribute to the passed miners. Loving farmer Carl’s escaped ducks 😂. Well done Ian!!! Love Nelly too!! 🐷🐷🐷 Never watched Vera either, so we’ll take the Vera Lynn reference haha. Great video both!!!
Sorry this comment went into the limbo folder and I just found it!! I totally thought of you when we visited Beamish because it did remind me of the Iron Bridge place... but too bad we didn't get any old money. I'd love to have a few shillings! Don't eat any more honeycomb, or I'll have to send you to the Victorian Dentist!!! Thanks in advance for not spitting on the floor when we meet up in Liverpuddle! Can't wait to see you! XX Dara
this is great, ive just stumbled upon your channel, and it makes me smile to watch your adventures in my home town. Newcastle. I havent been to beamish for a long time, so was good to see from 'especially' your perspective. there is so much more to the north east, you are scratching the surface but its a brilliant surface to start scratching. i recommend the nenthead mines
Hiya Louise! Yes, I agree! We really have enjoyed our time in the Northeast. Last summer we spent time in Northumberland and did several blogs. I hope you will check them out if you haven’t seen them yet. This year we really enjoyed County Durham as well as more of Northumberland… looking forward to future visits! Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment. Cheers! Dara
I’m so glad you agree! I do need to work on not letting the fish get soggy when I have fish and chips normally. That seems to be a big problem! Having the fish served in a cone on top of the chips in the great idea! I will be publishing a fish and chips taste test here where I live in Cheltenham. Hopefully you are subscribed and will stick around for that 😉. I have my Newcastle video premiering tomorrow! Thanks so much for leaving a comment! Cheers! Dara
Hey Dara & Ian! It's so good watching this, I haven't been to Beamish in so long. Was great seeing the chippy being wrapped in 'newspaper' how it was done even when I was a kid. There is is another mine right up in Weardale called Killhope Lead Mine. That's another good spot, should you be up here again! Have a super fantastic weekend
The fish and chips looked delish! We used to have fish and chips wrapped in newspaper, but there was always a paper lining between the chips and the newspaper.
Such a lovely museum, I had no idea it was that big! Definitely want to go to see it all, it's good to know that the visit needs a full day to get to explore everything! : )
It's not far from Yorkshire, so you absolutely must go! I know you are a history fan. The brilliant thing is that you can buy one ticket and return as many times as you want for a year! They have special events for Halloween, Christmas, etc. And you definitely have to see Durham Cathedral as well! Have you seen that video yet? Ian's drone photography is epic... Lovely to hear from you, hun! XX Dara
Yeah, it’s the antique dolls! A lot of people find them creepy 😬 Beamish is a wonderful open air museum, if you ever find yourself in County Durham I highly recommend a visit!
I always knew I had been born in the wrong era....but seen this amazing living museum, I am more than sure that I AM born in the wrong ear. Thanks for letting us be a part of your visit🤩🤩🤩
My wife and I were lucky enough to visit the Bethlehem Steel Works Museum in Pennsylvania (USA)back in June this year (2022) and although it was quite amazing … especially with the 3 Blast Furnaces still standing outside .. it still has a lot of work to do to make it into a really amazing place …. but it was still worth the visit
I live not far from Beamish in one of the many colliery villages that used to thrive in that area, just like the houses in your video we lived in a miners cottage my Dad like every other resident built a wooden lean to on the back of our house to make a kitchen to eat in, we had no hot water or inside toilet when we first moved in we had no plumbing at all, water had to be brought in from a tap in the street, but i digress my reason for my offering a insight into the lives of miners families in the fifties and sixties was to tell you about the kids at that time would go door to door asking for newspapers to give to the owner of the local fish shop and he would give us a bag of batter no fish or chips just batter, it was difficult collecting news papers from coal miners for they had another use for the paper it was used as toilet paper, not the most efficient medium for that job but there was always something to read while spending time in that freezing lavatory.
Oh my goodness! Thanks for the interesting slice of history! I think other viewers mentioned trading in papers for fried “scraps” of batter. Not very healthy, but warm and tasty!
@@MagentaOtterTravels wow 🤩 Ian certainly loves ice cream but I’m with him! In Padstow at the weekend I had a peanut chocolate crunch with rum & raisin (real Navy rum)!! 😋
This is one of my favorite places to visit and it's on my doorstep. Also your ticket lasts 1 year .. so you cab visit as many times as you like for a year and you only pay once!! Which is amazing as they always have different events and there's just so much to see and do
You are so lucky to live in such a beautiful area and to have this wonderful place on your doorstep! I'm sorry I didn't mention about tickets being good for a year. You are right that is a GREAT benefit!!! I would love to visit again for their seasonal/holiday events! Thanks for your lovely comment! Cheers! Dara
I have such happy memories of visiting Beamish on school and family trips when I was little! I'm lucky to live close by but it's been a long time since my last visit!
Time to go back! Because you can buy a ticket and visit as many times as you want throughout the year, you should definitely go check out all the areas! I highly recommend the fish and chips, and the ice cream! If I had a second day to go back I would try some of those delicious looking baked goods! Lol I really appreciate you watching and taking the time to comment 💕 Cheers! Dara
It's good to see how people lived and the extent to which people have gone to to preserve it. My grandmother was born in 1889 and died 1988 would tell us all the stories of when she was a girl or gal as she would say.
The pub there was taken from near where I live in Gateshead. My mother, now in her late 70s remembers her dad putting her on the bar counter when she was very young to sing for coins, then he would spend them on his beer 🤭.
I would imagine the Fish and Chips were cooked in beef dripping, Its rare in the south but still used everywhere in the north. Chips in the south are usually cooking in vegetable oil. As a 57 year old we always had chips in newspaper, I can`t remember when it was banned but it use to taste nicer.
As I remember, the local newspaper office in my town used to leave a stack of unsold newspapers on the doorsteps of the local chippies. Left out to get rained on by the skies and pissed on by the local animal population. I suspect newspapers went out of fashion because of hygiene reasons and potentially toxic newsprint. Northern chip shops always used to cook in beef dripping - my local ones here in West Yorkshire still do - and it makes a big improvement over ones cooked in vegetable oil. As a man in his late fifties, I can say that peed upon, ink-soaked newspapers and beef dripping have done me no harm.😜🤪🤓🥸🤧🤒😓😉
@@brendancasey866 I'm not sure, brother. It's not something I've kept tabs on. I remember getting fish and chips wrapped in newspaper in 1979. I know this because there was the story about Margaret Thatcher becoming Prime Minister on the paper and my Dad said, "Keeping our chips warm is the last decent thing that woman will do for the likes of us". He was a coal miner. He wasn't wrong.
@@tonycasey3183 It was one of those things we were used to, never paid much attention to, it was a normal everyday kind of thing, I'd agree re timing 79 etc was an apprentice back then hated being sent on the chip run!
Really like this idea of a "living museum." Looks like the toilet could double as a cutting board! Just in case you want to take a bath while preparing dinner. In the US the bread is still filled with sugar. "Bait cabin" is a new phrase for us too.
Haha, you are correct about the bread in the US! haha Northern England has so many different terms to Southern! It's a constant learning experience for me...
Not been to Beamish for many years. It’s a long way to go from the New Forest. I’m waiting for when they start running Trolleybuses, what a treat that will be. We are on holiday in Yorkshire next year I think we’ll take a trip up the A1 It’s a fantastic day out
It is a fantastic place and always expanding. We are going on holiday to Yorkshire next summer as well! Look for someone in a magenta T shirt when you are there ;-)
I used to collect old newspapers as a kid in the late 40.s , take them to old Mrs Sales Fish Shop in Durham (she was probably younger than I am now!!) and get paid a portion of chips in return. Coal fired fryer and real beef fat in the pan, her fish and chips were to die for and only 11d in old money
Wow, what a fantastic memory! I had no clue about collecting newspapers in exchange for free chips, but several viewers of this video mentioned that. So cool! Cheers! Dara
We still refer to our lunch as bait , we also use bait when fishing . As a kid in the fifties we would take bundles of newspapers to the chip shop and swap them for a bag of chips. When I bought my cottage it had a outside toilet just like the one at beamish. It's a pity you didn't get to Washington hall it's a little gem.
I love hearing about people taking old newspapers to the chippy! That’s fabulous! Ian owned a cottage when I first met him. It was in Somerset and had an outside loo too! If Durham cathedral hadn’t been closed the first day I went there, I would have had time to go to Washington Hall the next day! But instead, I had to go back to the cathedral. Next time! 🤞
Hope you enjoyed your visit to our beautiful county...I might be biased but I think it's one of the most beautiful counties in Britain...maybe even the best ..DH7 MAGS ..
You ARE biased, but also correct ;-) In a world (and a country) where so many beautiful places are overrun with tourists, and the resulting ice cream shops and tea rooms... it is a treat to drive through the countryside of Durham and Northumberland and see so much unspoilt beauty. And the coastline as well! I love the vlogs I've done of Durham and Newcastle and Northumberland... and hope I can start editing my most recent vlogs of Northumberland soon! I have some great stuff I filmed! Cheers! Dara
This looks like a place to spend a lovely weekend in! I love those animal parks where you can meet the domestic animals ❤️ probably because I grew up in a farmer family and I had daily access to those animals, and I kinda miss them :) The fish and chips looked quite good 👍 I miss to have some real ones!
Yes, I agree... I love farm parks! They have lots of them in Britain. I filmed a visit to a great one last year, but still haven't posted it yet. Because I am SO behind! Still trying to play catch up whilst publishing some videos that were filmed more recently. Madness! haha
I have just watched a video of another family doing beamish, i did not know you had done it, i live in county durham, and its not far from me, But i actually live in an old mining village in a old mining house 2 up 2 down as they call it, i do have some fun facts, i will chip as i watch the video to see where you go and visit, my comment is at the start of your video
Oh yes, I am a little familiar with the 2 up and 2 down from Welsh mining communities. They often have a box room between the upper rooms... is that true in Durham?
That tram is too cool! Seems like the best way to enter the 1950s! I don't really believe in multi-tasking, but DEFINITELY don't believe you should be swimming while drinking coffee.
Fish and chips were always served in newspaper, in fact as children we would collect old newspapers along with pop bottles and take them to the chippie in exchange for a bag of chips. Sorry, we still have separate taps in lots of buildings. Bait was carried in a miners bait box, and lots of them ate it while down the pit, they could not come up for food. The Sun Inn came from Bishop Auckland, and I can remember when it was taken down brick by brick (they were all numbered) and taken to Beamish to be rebuilt.
Isn’t it amazing the careful work they have done at Beamish to preserve this history of the Northeast?❤️🏴. Thanks so much for your comment! I absolutely love the story of you collecting newspapers and bringing them to the Chippy in exchange for chips! Cheers! X Dara
I’d love to visit that museum! When you said “living museum” I immediately thought of places like Old Sturbridge Village and Colonial Williamsburg here in the eastern U.S. But Beamish looks way cooler!
Mmm, the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley might have a thing or two to say about who is the best in the UK. However, I'll watch your video and hopefully visit Beamish, before taking sides. :)
Spell checking and fact checking has failed me AGAIN! It's spelt BYRE not BYER! Last time I ever try to educate the world about bovine sewers! LOL
That's how fish and chips should be cooked. The difference in the taste is probably because it's been cooked in beef dripping/ fat. Which was the way it was done in Britain up until the 80s.
@@neilgayleard3842 that’s really interesting! Seems odd by today’s standards.
@@Poliss95 you read all sorts of curious things!
As a Englishman, I am always intrigued how Americans pronounce the town of Leicester in MA as "lester", but when they come to England, they say "lye-sester".
You are very respectful and appreciative. You take the place as it's meant to be, and not as Disneyland. That's class. Thank you.
Oh, that is very kind of you to say! I actually mentioned something like that in last Friday's video about the village of Blockley in the Cotswolds. It is where Father Brown is filmed, and the church is a popular filming place. But I tried to remind viewers... it's a REAL church, so we should be respectful of it for the sake of the people who live in the village, those buried there, and out of respect for preserving history. I so admire that the people of the Beamish are trying to preserve history as well! Here is my Blockley vid, if you don't mind watching something from the South ;-) th-cam.com/video/_4we400lV64/w-d-xo.html Cheers! Dara
@@MagentaOtterTravels Thank you Dara. I'll have a look. 🙂
I love beamish, I have lots of vlogs there.
Thank you for this, last went to Beamish as a School boy in the 70’s left school in 1980 and started work down the local pit in County Durham at the age of 16. Joined the military in 1985 and have lived all over the country ever since. Seeing this has made me decide I need to visit again in 2023. Big thanks again. Also eaten Lots of fish and chips wrapped in newspaper.
Oh my goodness, I’m so glad you saw this video! I think you would love visiting the Beamish. They have so much new stuff there! And your experience being in the mines will make it extra special.
Thanks so much for watching and leaving your comment! Dara
It always makes me so happy when foreign guests head north and visit my county.
I'm so glad! I'm doing my level best to get the word out and encourage more Americans to discover County Durham as well as Northumberland. Of course, not too many, and no obnoxious ones! 😂
Did you see my video of Durham cathedral? I think it's one of the nicest videos on my channel. Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to leave a comment! Cheers! Dara
It's amazing how they dismantled so many local buildings from the region and painstakingly rebuilt them at Beamish. You really have to take your hat of to them! Also, it's a museum that will continue to expand as the years role on; it will be weird seeing items from my childhood, as they will no doubt have a 1960's or 1970's area at some point. Now that will make me really feel old!😄
Yes the work they do there is AMAZING! I am impressed how they continue to evolve and expand the museum.
Haha, I look forward to the 1980’s town 😂😂
Hey guess what? I’m editing my Newcastle video now. Hopefully it will come out on Friday!👍
@@MagentaOtterTravels Will look forward to that. I hope nothing was closed when you got here!
@@geordieboy8945 actually, no problem with that!👍👍
You should know that the sight of those fish and chips brought tears to my eyes. Originally from Newcastle but now in SC, real fish and chips is something we both (American wife and I) long for. Seems like a hundred years since I tasted that silky smooth fresh fish encased in crispy batter accompanied by chips, slightly browned and crisp on the outside and fluffy on the inside. Just can't understand how no restaurant we've visited in at least 6 states over the last 20 years is able to reproduce what in the UK is a "simple" food.
Your comment makes me feel both happy and sad, but thank you so much for watching my video and leaving your comment! You live in South Carolina now? They don’t even do good BBQ there! Lol.
Forgive me, I am in Texas now and have to trash talk a little bit .
We live in Gloucestershire during the summers, and have the opportunity to visit various parts of Britain. Eating delicious, fish and chips is a treat we really appreciate! And no, I haven’t eaten any fish and chips here in the states that compares. I hope you subscribe and watch some of my other videos…. It’s my favourite thing to hear from Britons in America and/or Americans about my observations! Happy Christmas! Dara
My Grandfather and Grandmother lived in a village ,called Mickley, in Stocksfield on the river Tyne. The house they lived in really only had one room downstairs No bathroom of any description with an outside toilet not luxurious, like in the back yard, but over the road, shared by several families! It was emptied a few times a week. The bath was a galvanised tub put in front of a large range. Coal fired which was used for all the cooking. There were no pit baths, so my Grandfather would come home absolutely black and bathe in front of the fire. Neighbours would drop in unannounced and chat, while he was bathing ! The main hobbies were pigeons and allotments. The pitmen were so used to crouching down with a pick in very low seams that they didn't stand up in ques, they all squatted down ! My Grandfather was " Mackie" Adamson. My mother Peggy Adamson. This was in the early 1940 ..50 s. Pit baths came in later !
Wow, thanks so much for sharing those family memories! That’s fascinating to hear. My mother grew up desperately poor in Missouri USA and had some similar lifestyle elements, but they picked cotton for a living. Mining adds a whole new dimension to how they lived. The bathing story is funny!!😂
Thanks for your comment! Dara
I'm from the north east, not far from Beamish. I moved to Somerset 21yrs ago, and still use bait for a packed lunch. I've even got my husband saying some Geordie words 😆.
Good for you! It’s fun to learn lingo from different regions 😉. We had a fabulous trip a few weeks ago to Somerset and Devon. I can’t wait to share those vlogs, but it might take me a while to finally have the time to edit all them…
I also have a video I’m working on which involves interviewing people with different accents doing something silly. It should be fun 😉
Cheers! XX Dara
Thanks for the tour, I am now living in Western Canada but grew up in County Durham in the 50s & 60s, as a teenager I worked in a lead mine.
The thing I remember is getting a bag of crisps with a little blue bag inside holding the salt that you sprinkled on the crisps.
Wow, a lead mine?! That sounds extremely dangerous in more ways than one!! I managed the Lay’s potato chip brand in the US for two years. People would occasionally mention wanting us to put seasoning packets in the bags of crisps. Interesting that you used to have them that way!
Thanks for watching this video and taking the time to comment! I hope you also check out my Durham Cathedral video from last week, and this Friday is my video about Newcastle! I hope you subscribe and stick around 😉. Cheers! Dara
Have subscribed, used to work for the Weardale Lead mining Co located in Rookhope, upper Weardale & lived in Stanhope.
@@dougb100 I’m embarrassed to say that I didn’t know Stanhope was a place! I just know it as Vera’s last name 😊
I now live in Nanaimo, Vancouver Island & we have street names like Newcastle, Sunderland, Morpeth, Blyth & Northumberland so it’s home from home!
@@dougb100 oh yes! Is that BRITISH Columbia? 🇬🇧🇨🇦
Wishing you a good day, good luck and fun! Every morning brings new hopes and dreams.
Absolutely loved your visit and tour of the Living Museum, reminds us of the Black Country Museum here in the West Midlands, of which we would also greatly recommend. Thanks for sharing, kind regards, Simon👍
Yes, we definitely need to visit the Black Country Museum! My hubby has deep roots in the Midlands. His dad is a Brummie and his mum is from outside Brum. Are you back in the UK now? Thanks for watching! Cheers! Dara
Oh those tiles on the wall in the bathroom are just delightful!
Yes, so much attention to authentic detail!
I grew up in Easington Colliery, a mining village in County Durham, and most of my family were miners. The year before I was born 83 men were killed in a fire damp explosion in the pit. Listening to a brass band play 'Gresford', the Miner's Hymn, is very moving. Look it up.
The house I grew up in was a miner's cottage with a huge kitch range, fired by coal, where my mother cooked. It also has an outside lavatory - the Netty - in the back yard. The school I went to was very similar to that shown in your video.
Thanks for your excellent video.
Hi Tom, I was born in Lttlethorpe hospital , still have family in Easington , I`ve heard the old council building will be going up at beamish
@@darrinslack1269 Hello Darrin. I probably wouldn't recognise the place now. I haven't been back to Easington since about 1972, though I still have folk in Sunderland.
Thank you so very much for your comment. I absolutely love hearing people's family memories. And I admire your father and family members for working in the mines... what dedication to supporting your family, despite the difficult and dangerous circumstances! How very tragic about the 83 miners killed in the explosion. When I read the story about the Durham mine accident and the role of Lead Kindly Light in their experience being trapped, I had to find that song to use in the video... it is so somber and chilling and sad! Thanks for telling me about Gresford as well.
I'm glad that the Beamish exhibits brought back some childhood memories! Thanks for watching and commenting, as always! Looking forward to seeing what you think of Friday's Newcastle video. I just finished it and it was a BEAST! But it has a few funny bits, so I hope people like it! Cheers! Dara
We when there about a week back cant say new stuff is impressive very little to see and duse not captures imagination of the Time the museum on the hole whith other houses is top class and gives a deep sense of grate history we are very lucky to have it there is a second chippy further down and good
The 2nd chippy was closed when we were there. The newer areas are still in the process of being built out and completed. I think it is constantly improving. Thanks for watching and commenting! Cheers! Dara
Seeing the fish and chips wrapped in [fake] newspaper brought back memories of when they were wrapped in yesterdays old newspaper. There was a layer of fresh paper between the food and newspaper, but the grease still soaked through of course. I also remember in our immediate area, if you went to the 'chippy' and wanted fish and chips, you just simply asked for a 'paper'. This was very local, when talking to folk only 2 or 3 miles away, they thought that was weird! It seems the little bits of excess batter that you could request have a million different names around the country. [ I called them 'Scranchons' if memory serves me right - it's a long to time since I had them].
Ha ha, scranshons, now that takes me back, not heard that term in a long while. My dad, who was from South Shields, used to tell me of those when i was a kid. I think he missed them. He'd settled in Liverpool, and around our way the chippies didn't/don't do them. Breaks my heart to think they must've been just throwing them away.
Other memories re F&C's in newspaper, I think they smelt so much better. The downside though, cos of the heat, and moisture, your hands would be black as the newsprint rub off on you. A small price to pay though 🙂
Yes, I had never seen people get served the scrap bits of batter before! Doesn’t look very nutritious, but it sure looks delicious! Lol
John, it’s so fun to hear everyone’s memories!
Glad that you enjoyed your visit to the North East. Bait was indeed in common usage as a term for a packed lunch (carried in a bait box) until about the mid-1980's. You still hear it but far less commonly than previously. In Northumberland you may also hear "scran" which means more or less the same thing
Fish and chips were traditionally sold in Old newspapers because that was a readily available and cheap form of packaging for the sort of small scale, family business that traditional chip shops nearly always were. For health reasons packaging them in old newsprint was frowned upon by the seventies and more or less illegal by the nineties. Cinder toffee I have always known as cinder toffee, hokey pokey I know as an Ice Cream flavour which I associate with Yorkshire. (It's also the title of a very enjoyable song by Richard and Linda Thompson which you might like to check out.) Sorry to hear that you didn't get to check out the pit, if it's any consolation it gets very cold in there very quickly, even on the hottest of days.
With as hot as it has been, going to the Mahogany Drift would probably be welcome relief for a bit! Thanks for telling me about scran... I've never heard that! I have a Newcastle video premiering this Friday... hopefully you'll check it out! Thanks so much for your comment. Cheers! Dara
@@MagentaOtterTravels we used Scran in Liverpool, Lancashire. Now rejigged as Merseyside since early 1970s. eg. "What's for Scran"? What's to eat? Aged 82. Lancashire lass.
@@irenejohnston6802 Nice to meet you, Lancashire lass! I featured another Lancashire lass in this funny video: th-cam.com/video/RLzjVR4Vsss/w-d-xo.html
We had a lovely visit to Liverpool last month. We even got to ride the ferry across the Mersey! I will be publishing videos about our visit eventually, when we get back to Texas. I’m currently in Austria eating sausages, schnitzel, and strudel! Lol
Thanks for your comment. Cheers! Dara
I am from Northumberland & bait is still used today! Never used the word scran before tho!
Scran or bait to me is a word I have often heard when I lived in Boro. Scran was something to eat and bait your lunch.
Beamish is an awesome place, truly a living museum and gives you a view of life in the past
I agree! Such a treasure 💖🏴
What an amazing museum! It's on our list of places to visit in the UK!
I really love Northumberland and County Durham. I would highly recommend a visit there because the pace is so different and the countryside if different as well. And such amazing places to visit... Cragside, Bamburgh Castle, Durham Cathedral, Beamish... etc!
Hi and thanks, Magenta Otter Travels for sharing. Indeed, "Durham" in NC, US-the town of well-known universities-was mentioned in the chat, here is a charming and cozy town, Beamish situated in the beautiful countryside. This living and working museum is very fascinating...especially, dentistry...🦷I didn't know that the Downton Abbey movie was filmed there and now I am anxious to rewatch them to find the buildings in the movie. Your video has them all-a complete tour guides. Well done. I am glad that YT suggested the premiere of your channel for me. Again, thank you. 🙋♀🙋♀🛶🛶
Thanks so much for your comment! It was lovely to meet you in the premiere and get to know you a bit! I didn't even think about how the Raleigh Durham area of NC is a big university mecca... that is an interesting connection to Durham in the UK! I can tell you are American by how you spell cosy :-)
To be fair, not a lot of Downton Abbey was filmed at the Beamish... but definitely the garage was. Like Harry Potter, bits of DA was filmed in loads of places! Including some Cotswold villages... which I have yet to visit! Always so much to discover! Thanks again for your lovely comment. Hope you are having a good week! Cheers! Dara
@@MagentaOtterTravels Thank you and look forward to the next video.🙋♀🙋♀🛶🛶
Like you I have also wanted to visit the Beamish Living Museum for as long as I can remember. Now thanks to your insprational video, I am going to visit it later this year. The way you have filmed it, is so professional, I thought I was watching an episode of Heartbeat, I couldn't work out where Nick Berry was! Seriously, if there was a TH-cam award for best photography of an historic vlog, you would get my vote!! 100 times better than an excellent video!!😊👍🥰✨
You are too sweet! Thank you so much! Be sure to remember that when you buy a ticket to the Beamish, you can return for free as much as you want for a year. So maybe split your visit over a couple days? Then you can eat more food too! haha
The filming I"m really proud of was our Durham Cathedral video... my hubby's drone piloting was gorgeous. And the storytelling in yesterday's Newcastle video I thought was pretty fun as well. You know as a fellow creator that there is a balance between the technical audio/video stuff and then the narration and storytelling. It has been a fun learning experience for this old lady! haha Cheers! Dara
@@MagentaOtterTravels Thanks for the info on the Beamish Ticket Dara. It is always a pleasure to return the visit to someone who has visited my channel. It is I who should be thanking you, especially after all the Beamish info! Take care.
Love living museums they have a sense of making you feel a part of the era 👍💕
I love that you've covered Beamish. I'm a county Durham girl and would happily show you some sights in my town you'd love. The pub in Beamish is actually from my town xx
@@darkangelholz oh, that's brilliant! What town is that?
Great Video, im a County Durham native and i also visited Beamish in June 2022, with our relatives from the US...Needless to say they also were blown away by it😊
Yes, it really is incredible! So huge, so authentic, and so immersive! Thanks for watching and taking the time to leave a comment. Cheers XX Dara
I remember some 35 years ago, in St Yves, we got fish&chips in real newspaper!
Yes that’s the old fashioned way 😉
Ohmigosh I’m already in love with all the trams and buses!! 🚌
You would love Beamish!
Wow! Thanks for sharing this incredible place! Would love to go there one of these days!
You should! Highly recommend 👍👍
still loving your posts . and as for having fish and chips in newspaper i was born in 1955 so yes , but a liner was involved , as kids we would go into the chip shop no money and get a bag of the batter bits , hey it was free and better than crisps . thanks again for the videos
Wow, I didn't know you could get a bag of the scraps for free! They were serving them as extra topping in the chippy... they looked VERY tasty! But probably pretty fattening haha!
Thanks very much for watching and commenting! Cheers! Dara
😆 “beesto” that tickled me… I might keep that one! I dearly love Beamish, visiting as a child in the 80s I was entranced by the 1900’s part of the museum
I have a bad habit of turning words into Spanish... even when I shouldn't...
Great video! I live near Beamish Museum and was there just last week with a visiting friend. For others who are considering visiting the museum it's worth noting that your entrance ticket actually allows you to visit as many times as you want for a year, so if you can't fit the whole place in a single day, or miss the mine like you did, you can always just go back the next, or another, day.
Thanks for noting! That is an amazing benefit!! I hope to return again with friends next summer. 💕 Cheers! Dara
Hello from Türkei 🇹🇷 Very nice travel vlog. Have a nice day. I'm subscribed :)
Everybody who visits Beamish should purchase the guidebook; it is a wonderful publichation! It is packed full of information about the museum's exhibits!
Thanks for the great recommendation! Cheers! Dara
Love your videos especially about the north east of England the forgotten county
I'm doing my best to let people know it is a wonderful place to visit! But don't worry, my channel is small enough I don't think I will contribute to over tourism 😉🤣
Well shown and good commentary . The open air museum is lovely.
Thank you so much! It is a remarkable place! I’m so glad I was able to finally visit! ❤️ What county do you live in? I appreciate you watching and commenting!
Cheers! Dara
I can remember when all fish and chip shop food was wrapped in old news papers
Man you are OLD!!
@@MagentaOtterTravels but a few months younger 😉
Brilliant video keep up the good work
Thank you so much! Did you watch last weeks video about Durham Cathedral? It has some wonderful drone photography as well as very interesting stories about the cathedral.😉
I really appreciate you watching the video and taking the time to comment 😊. Cheers! Dara
Live Museums/Musea are fantastic places to visit. We have a few here in the Netherlands too. They tell such a factual and visual story about times gone by. I loved the school benches. I sat in some exactly like that. The person behind me wanted to dip my ponytail in the ink well. Yes, fish&chips are tastiest wrapped in first unprinted the used newspaper. There is nothing like it anywhere to compare. Wonderful parks like the Beamish Museum are worth every ounce of energy to visit and I am always in awe of the dedication of the volunteers and paid staff for making these visits so memorable. 💖 👍 🇳🇿 🙋♀ 🇳🇱
I'm glad to know they have similar live, open air museums in the Netherlands. They are a wonderful "slice of life" and a look back in time! Thanks for watching, Anita! Cheers! XX Dara
The older we get, the more we appreciate the past. Its been along time since fish n chips were served in yesterdays newspaper. A few chips would always end up with a bit of print on them. Delish 🙃
And apparently you lived to tell about it! Lol
Been there 2 month ago. It is really a nice museum. I enjoyed my day there. Thanks for sharing!
Yes it’s a unique and wonderful place 💕
I LOVE Fentiman's Rose Lemonade!!! Had some in Lacock!
Perfect place to have it!!
Hello Dara & Ian. Sorry I’ve been out of touch for 2 month. Loved your vlogs about Pembrokeshire. I was in hospital and could only watch your videos but adding notes with my tablet is very difficult.
One day I hope to go to Beamish, it’s been on my bucket list!
We have similar sites here in South Wales. There’s St Fagans Folk Museum in the west of Cardiff. It doesn’t have trams but does have loads of rebuilt buildings over many acres. To the north of Newport in Blaenavon is Big Pit where you can go in a deep pit. North of Pontypridd at the foot of the Rhondda Valley is the Rhondda Heritage Park, again a deep mine where visitors can go down the pit.
Oh my goodness, Peter! I’m so sorry to hear you’ve been hospitalized! I hope you are lots better now 🙏
It’s wonderful to hear from you. I look forward to visiting more of these open air museums around Britain. 💖🇬🇧
Take care of yourself! Thanks for saying hello . Cheers! Dara
Oh I love this living museum! Reminds me of Williamsburg in VA. Fish & chips looked amazing, great price too! Ian saves the duck!!! 👏👏 Beautiful video Dara!~Cara 💖
Yes I think Williamsburg was the first living museum I visited! Thanks for watching friend 💕
I live near Beamish but have also been to Williamsburg - very good!
We visited Beamish about 3 years ago, and we loved it. We didn't have time to eat the fish and chips, but the smell told us it was fried in beef fat (dripping). That is the best way. Not too healthy but delicious. No harm for an occasion.
So many people mentioned the fish & chips being fried in beef fat in the North... and I didn't know that! Very interesting! I need to visit Beamish again because we didn't get to all the areas... and I will definitely be eating at one of their chippies when I go back!
Such interesting places! How cool to travel back in time like that. Some of those advertisements posters are quite clever (get a hat). Good that the fish and chips was worth the wait, that was a long line! It looked amazing though. I haven't had those for quite a while but last one did come with a real newspaper-wrap, so i was able to read some of it on the fish itself. 😂 If we ever return to the UK, we will definitely put this place on our list.
Hey, I just noticed your new channel name! Sounds like you are going to be hanging out in CR for a while! Thanks for watching. Yes, the Beamish is a wonderful place... and part of the Northeast England region that is truly underappreciated! Cheers! Dara
@@MagentaOtterTravels Yes, we made some changes and more changes are in progress. 😄The new name does make it a bit more clear what is featured right now and it's easy to adjust to a new country name when the time comes. We do plan to move to a new country next year but we also still have tons of material and plans for our Costa Rica travel guide. 😊 The current running series is not even half way yet. 😅
@@BakkerfeelingAdventures I totally understand being buried in content... I have video clips from 15 months ago I'm trying to work into a video for next week!
@@MagentaOtterTravels Happy editing and all the best with that project. 💕👍The bright side of having so much material is that we don't have the need to go anywhere any time soon. 😉 And we have our house sit assignments set until beginnings of January. So editing time it is. 😅
Thanks for your tour of Beamish been trying to get up north to visit museum looks fantastic!.
Yes, I HIGHLY recommend a visit!
I absolutely love your videos, Dara. Not only are the sights and topics enjoyable but your delivery and presentation are down-to-earth and companionable. Oh, and I do like best the ones which include Ian!! Many thanks from Eden Prairie, Minnesota.
Thanks so much, Elizabeth! I do love Ian participating in the videos... but he hates being in front of the camera. But if you watch our crazy homemade Hobnobs taste test (the intro to that one makes me laugh every time!), or the Marmite taste test, or some of our old chocolate taste tests, you can see Ian more eagerly participating! haha... when he is being fed! Have a great week! Cheers! Dara
I went to University in Durham and I like to go back as often as I can.
I also LOVE visiting Beamish. I'm not sure if you mentioned it in the visit, but your entry ticket for the museum allows you entry as many times as you like in a year.
You are SO lucky to have attended uni in Durham! And yes, that is an amazing aspect of visiting the Beamish that you can return for free within a year. Good idea, since there is more than you can see in a single day!
Enjoyed the tour Dara. Not been there so good to see around. These types of living museums really do capture what life was like. Deffo Honeycombe her in Glos by the way. I remember eating chips from newspaper at my nans in Birmingham. Hope you are having a good week. 👍🏻🚶🏻♂️🚶♀️
Yes, honeycomb covered in milk chocolate from the Cotswold chocolate company is delicious here in Gloucestershire!!😋 Thanks for watching, mate!👍
I last went to Beamish about six years ago and it seems to have had a huge makeover since then. A lot more interactive than when I was there. This video definitely made me want to go back. Also not sure if anyone has mentioned this yet but Coleman's in South Shields does amazing fish and chips, and South Shields has some good history that you might be interested in.
Thank you so much for the recommendation! That is one of the great things about the Beamish museum is that they are constantly evolving and adding more. I hope you have the opportunity to go check it out and see what’s new. 💕 Cheers! Dara
We enjoyed your tour of Beamish, Dara and Ian. Loved seeing what life was there back then. Mining was tough, but I didn't know they had to eat "bait" for lunch! Loved the video. Thanks so much for bringing us along.
Thanks so much for joining the premiere! I thought of you when the Bait Shop scene came... you are from the Midwest fishing lakes area too! ;-) My dad always fished in Kenosha Wisconsin!
@@MagentaOtterTravels There's some great Salmon fishing there!
The reason they used to take bait to work . Was the lack of canteens and restaurants underground
Aww I love Beamish ! We live local so visit A LOT 😊 my mom and dad took me when I was little and now I take my own son. He loves it just as much as us. It holds a special place in our hearts 🥰
It is truly a wonderful place! You are lucky to live close by! I know the feeling… As a little girl I went to the Museum of science and industry in Chicago and it was my favourite. I was so excited to have my own children one day and be able to take them back there to experience it 💕. Thanks for watching my video and commenting! Cheers! Dara
I live nearby and this is my go-for-a-walk place if I want a few hours of fresh air. It's great that it doesn't close in winter and there's plenty going on in the festive season.
You are very lucky to live nearby!! I have heard that it's really fun to visit over the holidays. I bet they do a wonderful job of decorating ;-)
Not sure if your username is your real name, but I just have to ask if anyone calls you Bob the builder?
The duck spent weeks plotting his escape. I hear he's digging a tunnel now and plans a mass breakout 🤣
Dangit! Dastardly duck! Maybe we need to go back and capture him again! 🦆
Been a few times to beamish live not that far away enjoyed your travels around the North East of England been to alot of the castles my favorite is walkwirh Castle thank you for coming to the North of England
Thanks for your comment!
Yes we love the Northeast! We stopped by several castles last summer, but didn’t have time to go inside all of them. Here is the video: th-cam.com/video/qIHDtP8Yt_8/w-d-xo.html
Last week we went to the Northwest for the first time, visiting Manchester and Liverpool. Be sure you are subscribe so that you can join us for all our adventures. Cheers! Dara
The fish and chips looked great. I can't recall when they stopped wrapping them in newspaper here in Oz. The 70s perhaps? It was mostly white butchers paper by then as far as I can recall. What a cool historic site. I love it when the bakeries are operational. There's a historic gold mining town here in Oz, Sovereign Hill, which we visited when I was a kid and I still remember the yo-yo/melting moment biscuits I bought from the bakery. They were so good.
The pub menu looked very similar pub menus here but the prices seemed comparatively very reasonable... then I remembered it was in pounds and more or less doubled it to get the good ol' Aussie dollar value and it was less inexpensive. But then, still possibly a bit cheaper than here nowadays. Who knew that we could go to merry old England for a reasonably priced feed? 😂
I love that you remember some biscuits that you ate decades ago! You are my kind of people 😉😂!! I didn’t realize you live Down Under. It’s so fun hearing everyone’s perspectives and memories!👍👍 as for food prices, I do find in general food to be less expensive here in Britain than in the states. To be fair, Beamish prices were a bit higher because of it being a museum. Thanks for your comments. Cheers! Dara
@@MagentaOtterTravels Yep, guilty as charged - Aussie as mate 😁
We've known go quite a bit out of our way for something as ridiculous as a slice of cheesecake (2 hours drive across northern Hokkaido in the depths of Winter. It was a great piece of cheesecake though). Or planned entire overseas jaunts around Michelin starred restaurants.😂
@@ShaneNixonFamily I always say that my favourite part of travel is the people and my second favourite part is the food!💕
I love these types of open air museums, Beamish is just the type of place I would want to visit. It's so well preserved and maintained.
I agree that these type of museums are particularly fun as well as valuable! I admire the staff at Beamish for the amazing job they do. It is very well-kept! Thanks for watching 💕. Cheers! Dara
I've been binge-watching your channel, it's great. You deserve a lot more subscribers.
Bless you 💕…. Very kind of you to say! I work hard on my videos, because it is definitely a passion project for me! I might not have 1 million subscribers, but I feel like I have a really wonderful community of great subscribers. I am very thankful for them… The Magenta Otter Tribe!🙏
Glad you enjoyed your day out. One of the miners lamps at Beamish was donated by me, that had belonged to my father, an ex-pitman, and if you spotted a miner in the 1900’s area, cloth cap and kerchief, often singing old folk songs, that would be my brother, a retired doctor.
Oh my goodness! That’s wonderful! I’m chuffed to hear that your brother is involved with Beamish. And it’s great that you donated a miners lamp. 💕
Aw, just seeing the trailer made us miss taking the T around. My partner actually used to be served fish and chips in a proper newspaper cone from the chippy of his childhood. Isn't that incredible? Awww... so sorry you missed the mine tour, but this was still so amazing to see! This place is fantastic! And thank you so much for the very lovely shout out Dara! That was too kind, and the ice cream looked amazing! Thanks for this great video!
Sorry, I forget to check my "held for review" folder regularly and this comment was trapped there! I'm so glad I could mention you... I definitely thought of you when I had that tasty ice cream!!
I'm so tickled that your partner had newspaper wrapped chips from the chippy! Did he grow up in the UK?
Been eating fish and chips since the 60s . They used to be wrapped in newspaper, but on a layer of greaseproof paper first, at least where I lived .
Yes, I’ve heard that from other people as well. It must’ve kept the ink from getting on your food, but the newsprint was used kind of as insulation and packing material 😉
I love Beamish, I haven’t been for a while and noticed some new exhibits so thanks for the heads up!
Yes, it’s a great place! Maybe it’s time for another visit? Definitely plan on trying the fish and chips and the ice cream! 😋 Cheers! Dara
Awesome video, what an amazing place on such a huge scale, like you say you would probably need more than one day to explore it all! 👍
Yes, I should have planned more time there! But honestly having to go the cathedral twice kind of put a spanner in our plans! haha
@@MagentaOtterTravels well you had to get inside, it was definitely worth the attempts! 👍
I grew up in Lobley Hill, which is just a couple of miles from Beamish. I used to go camping with the Boy Scouts, in Beamish Woods. I have lived in America since 1974. My parents were from nearby Stanley, County Durham.. My paternal grandmother died from TB at age 29, in 1925. She is buried in St. Andrews church, in Stanley. I live in Aberdeen, WA (near Olympia, WA).
You live in a place with a nice Scottish name, eh? I was born in Elgin Illinois and grew up in Dundee Illinois. Two more American places with Scottish names!
Thanks so much for your comment. It was lovely to hear from you. I hope you enjoyed our little wander around the Beamish. I had been wanting to go there for years and it was so fun to finally see it! County Durham and Northumberland are some of our favourite places to explore. Just a beautiful area! I hope you are subscribed because I have some fun Northumberland content coming soon after a little time back in the Cotswolds. And I already have several lovely videos of Durham and Northumberland on my channel. Cheers! Dara
@@MagentaOtterTravels Thank you for your lovely reply. I am taking my fiance to England this May. She had never been there before. We are flying into Teesside airport, and renting a car. I want to take her to the places on your videos. I used to go on holiday to Seahouses, and Bamburgh. I was a fishing fanatic in my youth, and have fished a lot of the areas in your videos. Pitlochry and Kelso were favourite spots. I have a sister, and brother that still reside in the NE of England. Sister in Stanley, and brother in Chester-Le-Street, near Durham. My other sister lives in Ocean Shores, WA. She retired after many years in Pekin, Ill. Small world after all! Best wishes.
@@alneal100 wow, that is a small world! I am so excited to hear about your trip! You are going to have such a great time! I am trying to get back to editing my videos of Northumberland. Hopefully I can get one or two of them published in April...
Enjoy your trip planning! It will be great to go visit your family as well as beloved places from your childhood!💗💗
Enjoying this very much Dara. That fish and chips look pretty special. Never been to the Beamish museum but it looks similar to Blists Hill in iron bridge that we went to a while back. Those biscuits in the bakery look amazing!!! Super Kneeder? Reminds me of a rude joke haha. Don’t care what you call it, honeycomb, cinder toffee, we love it!!! The Edwardian bathroom looks amazing. Didn’t know that about the Downton Abbey garage, never watched it, but interesting. Don’t think we’ll be visiting that dentist any time soon, but would definitely go to the ice cream stall. Nice shout out to Susan from Rhubarb and Cod. We’re fans too. Those basins are a bit weird! Promise we won’t spit on the floor when we meet up 😂 bad luck about the lack of mine tour, we missed the mine at Blists Hill too. Lovely tribute to the passed miners. Loving farmer Carl’s escaped ducks 😂. Well done Ian!!! Love Nelly too!! 🐷🐷🐷 Never watched Vera either, so we’ll take the Vera Lynn reference haha. Great video both!!!
Sorry this comment went into the limbo folder and I just found it!! I totally thought of you when we visited Beamish because it did remind me of the Iron Bridge place... but too bad we didn't get any old money. I'd love to have a few shillings! Don't eat any more honeycomb, or I'll have to send you to the Victorian Dentist!!! Thanks in advance for not spitting on the floor when we meet up in Liverpuddle! Can't wait to see you! XX Dara
this is great, ive just stumbled upon your channel, and it makes me smile to watch your adventures in my home town. Newcastle. I havent been to beamish for a long time, so was good to see from 'especially' your perspective. there is so much more to the north east, you are scratching the surface but its a brilliant surface to start scratching. i
recommend the nenthead mines
Hiya Louise! Yes, I agree! We really have enjoyed our time in the Northeast. Last summer we spent time in Northumberland and did several blogs. I hope you will check them out if you haven’t seen them yet.
This year we really enjoyed County Durham as well as more of Northumberland… looking forward to future visits! Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment. Cheers! Dara
Youre right about the fish and chips at Beamish. The best I ever ate in my life
I’m so glad you agree! I do need to work on not letting the fish get soggy when I have fish and chips normally. That seems to be a big problem! Having the fish served in a cone on top of the chips in the great idea! I will be publishing a fish and chips taste test here where I live in Cheltenham. Hopefully you are subscribed and will stick around for that 😉. I have my Newcastle video premiering tomorrow! Thanks so much for leaving a comment! Cheers! Dara
Hey Dara & Ian!
It's so good watching this, I haven't been to Beamish in so long. Was great seeing the chippy being wrapped in 'newspaper' how it was done even when I was a kid.
There is is another mine right up in Weardale called Killhope Lead Mine. That's another good spot, should you be up here again! Have a super fantastic weekend
Thanks so much! We definitely will be back! 😉
The fish and chips looked delish! We used to have fish and chips wrapped in newspaper, but there was always a paper lining between the chips and the newspaper.
Very sensible! Avoids inky fish ;-)
@@MagentaOtterTravels what if you have calamari ?
@@wencireone yum! Squid ink 🖊
Such a lovely museum, I had no idea it was that big! Definitely want to go to see it all, it's good to know that the visit needs a full day to get to explore everything! : )
It's not far from Yorkshire, so you absolutely must go! I know you are a history fan. The brilliant thing is that you can buy one ticket and return as many times as you want for a year! They have special events for Halloween, Christmas, etc. And you definitely have to see Durham Cathedral as well! Have you seen that video yet? Ian's drone photography is epic... Lovely to hear from you, hun! XX Dara
The room with the cribs were a little bit spooky😁 what a great place! Didn't know it existed!!
Yeah, it’s the antique dolls! A lot of people find them creepy 😬
Beamish is a wonderful open air museum, if you ever find yourself in County Durham I highly recommend a visit!
mmmmmm… between the fish n chips, that bakery, and the candy shop, that looks like a delicious way to spend the day!
AND iice cream!
Gee, can you tell I'm a wee bit food focused? haha
I always knew I had been born in the wrong era....but seen this amazing living museum, I am more than sure that I AM born in the wrong ear. Thanks for letting us be a part of your visit🤩🤩🤩
Yes you needed to be on that 1940’s farm! 💕
@@MagentaOtterTravels I really would love to.
Wonderful video
Thanks so much! I hope you subscribe and stick around for other videos. Cheers! Dara
my son and I went into the pit a couple of years ago, very fascinating.
I must go next time!! 👍
The Black Country Living Museum is worth a visit.
Oh yes, we would love to go there as well! Thanks for the recommendation! Cheers! Dara
My wife and I were lucky enough to visit the Bethlehem Steel Works Museum in Pennsylvania (USA)back in June this year (2022) and although it was quite amazing … especially with the 3 Blast Furnaces still standing outside .. it still has a lot of work to do to make it into a really amazing place …. but it was still worth the visit
That’s wonderful! So important to have museums to preserve the story of days gone by for future generations 💕
I live not far from Beamish in one of the many colliery villages that used to thrive in that area, just like the houses in your video we lived in a miners cottage my Dad like every other resident built a wooden lean to on the back of our house to make a kitchen to eat in, we had no hot water or inside toilet when we first moved in we had no plumbing at all, water had to be brought in from a tap in the street, but i digress my reason for my offering a insight into the lives of miners families in the fifties and sixties was to tell you about the kids at that time would go door to door asking for newspapers to give to the owner of the local fish shop and he would give us a bag of batter no fish or chips just batter, it was difficult collecting news papers from coal miners for they had another use for the paper it was used as toilet paper, not the most efficient medium for that job but there was always something to read while spending time in that freezing lavatory.
Oh my goodness! Thanks for the interesting slice of history! I think other viewers mentioned trading in papers for fried “scraps” of batter. Not very healthy, but warm and tasty!
What an amazing museum 😍 and your rhubarb and custard ice cream looked delicious! I’ve had hokey pokey in Cornish ice cream, maybe Roskillys 😋
Oh, so maybe hokey pokey is a Cornish term?!
@@MagentaOtterTravels yes we’ll take the glory down here in Cornwall 🍨😄
@@cornwallglory In Falmouth Ian ate a Knickerbocker glory with clotted cream ice cream, honeycomb ice cream, and clotted cream and toffee bits!
@@MagentaOtterTravels wow 🤩 Ian certainly loves ice cream but I’m with him! In Padstow at the weekend I had a peanut chocolate crunch with rum & raisin (real Navy rum)!! 😋
@@cornwallglory hearing you say Padstow makes me crave a pasty! Lol
This is one of my favorite places to visit and it's on my doorstep.
Also your ticket lasts 1 year .. so you cab visit as many times as you like for a year and you only pay once!!
Which is amazing as they always have different events and there's just so much to see and do
You are so lucky to live in such a beautiful area and to have this wonderful place on your doorstep!
I'm sorry I didn't mention about tickets being good for a year. You are right that is a GREAT benefit!!! I would love to visit again for their seasonal/holiday events! Thanks for your lovely comment! Cheers! Dara
@@MagentaOtterTravels thank you for the amazing review of such a beautiful place. Christmas at beamish truly is magical but I'd wrap up warm. 🙂
@@traceysallotmentNcooking oh I’m sure! Winters in the north must be a bit chilly 🥶
The 1950s cafe at the Beamish musuem serves ice cream floats using lemonade and has a jukebox where you can choose from a selection of 1950s songs.
@@alisonhamilton994 that sounds really fun!
I have such happy memories of visiting Beamish on school and family trips when I was little! I'm lucky to live close by but it's been a long time since my last visit!
Time to go back! Because you can buy a ticket and visit as many times as you want throughout the year, you should definitely go check out all the areas! I highly recommend the fish and chips, and the ice cream! If I had a second day to go back I would try some of those delicious looking baked goods! Lol
I really appreciate you watching and taking the time to comment 💕
Cheers! Dara
It's good to see how people lived and the extent to which people have gone to to preserve it. My grandmother was born in 1889 and died 1988 would tell us all the stories of when she was a girl or gal as she would say.
Oh, that is so sweet! Unfortunately, I never knew any of my grandparents. It’s a pity to lose that historical perspective!
The pub there was taken from near where I live in Gateshead. My mother, now in her late 70s remembers her dad putting her on the bar counter when she was very young to sing for coins, then he would spend them on his beer 🤭.
Oh my goodness, that is a colourful story! 😂 Thanks for sharing. Cheers! Dara
I would imagine the Fish and Chips were cooked in beef dripping, Its rare in the south but still used everywhere in the north. Chips in the south are usually cooking in vegetable oil. As a 57 year old we always had chips in newspaper, I can`t remember when it was banned but it use to taste nicer.
As I remember, the local newspaper office in my town used to leave a stack of unsold newspapers on the doorsteps of the local chippies. Left out to get rained on by the skies and pissed on by the local animal population. I suspect newspapers went out of fashion because of hygiene reasons and potentially toxic newsprint.
Northern chip shops always used to cook in beef dripping - my local ones here in West Yorkshire still do - and it makes a big improvement over ones cooked in vegetable oil.
As a man in his late fifties, I can say that peed upon, ink-soaked newspapers and beef dripping have done me no harm.😜🤪🤓🥸🤧🤒😓😉
@@tonycasey3183 Can't remember just when but didn't they stop using newsprint in the 80s?
@@brendancasey866 I'm not sure, brother. It's not something I've kept tabs on. I remember getting fish and chips wrapped in newspaper in 1979. I know this because there was the story about Margaret Thatcher becoming Prime Minister on the paper and my Dad said, "Keeping our chips warm is the last decent thing that woman will do for the likes of us". He was a coal miner. He wasn't wrong.
@@tonycasey3183 It was one of those things we were used to, never paid much attention to, it was a normal everyday kind of thing, I'd agree re timing 79 etc was an apprentice back then hated being sent on the chip run!
Your comment made me laugh, Tony! I'm glad you survived all those chippy dinners! haha
musium yg bagus tempat yg sangat bersejarah 👍
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Really like this idea of a "living museum." Looks like the toilet could double as a cutting board! Just in case you want to take a bath while preparing dinner. In the US the bread is still filled with sugar. "Bait cabin" is a new phrase for us too.
Haha, you are correct about the bread in the US! haha
Northern England has so many different terms to Southern! It's a constant learning experience for me...
Not been to Beamish for many years.
It’s a long way to go from the New Forest.
I’m waiting for when they start running Trolleybuses, what a treat that will be.
We are on holiday in Yorkshire next year I think we’ll take a trip up the A1
It’s a fantastic day out
It is a fantastic place and always expanding. We are going on holiday to Yorkshire next summer as well! Look for someone in a magenta T shirt when you are there ;-)
York, 2nd half of June.
Possibly my favourite city in the U.K.
I used to collect old newspapers as a kid in the late 40.s , take them to old Mrs Sales Fish Shop in Durham (she was probably younger than I am now!!) and get paid a portion of chips in return. Coal fired fryer and real beef fat in the pan, her fish and chips were to die for and only 11d in old money
Wow, what a fantastic memory! I had no clue about collecting newspapers in exchange for free chips, but several viewers of this video mentioned that. So cool! Cheers! Dara
Sorry to correct you because I loved this vlog , no one in the North East calls it The Beamish Museum just Beamish .
Thanks! I don’t mind being corrected 😉
Cheers! Dara
We still refer to our lunch as bait , we also use bait when fishing . As a kid in the fifties we would take bundles of newspapers to the chip shop and swap them for a bag of chips. When I bought my cottage it had a outside toilet just like the one at beamish. It's a pity you didn't get to Washington hall it's a little gem.
I love hearing about people taking old newspapers to the chippy! That’s fabulous! Ian owned a cottage when I first met him. It was in Somerset and had an outside loo too!
If Durham cathedral hadn’t been closed the first day I went there, I would have had time to go to Washington Hall the next day! But instead, I had to go back to the cathedral. Next time! 🤞
Hope you enjoyed your visit to our beautiful county...I might be biased but I think it's one of the most beautiful counties in Britain...maybe even the best ..DH7 MAGS ..
You ARE biased, but also correct ;-) In a world (and a country) where so many beautiful places are overrun with tourists, and the resulting ice cream shops and tea rooms... it is a treat to drive through the countryside of Durham and Northumberland and see so much unspoilt beauty. And the coastline as well! I love the vlogs I've done of Durham and Newcastle and Northumberland... and hope I can start editing my most recent vlogs of Northumberland soon! I have some great stuff I filmed! Cheers! Dara
Boy i would visit Beamish just for the fish n chips.
Haha, if I lived nearby it would be a serious temptation to go there once a week!
There were "no spitting" signs on buses in the North East up until about 1980... people used to spit to get rid of coal dust on their chests
That is so sad on several levels!
This looks like a place to spend a lovely weekend in! I love those animal parks where you can meet the domestic animals ❤️ probably because I grew up in a farmer family and I had daily access to those animals, and I kinda miss them :)
The fish and chips looked quite good 👍 I miss to have some real ones!
Yes, I agree... I love farm parks! They have lots of them in Britain. I filmed a visit to a great one last year, but still haven't posted it yet. Because I am SO behind! Still trying to play catch up whilst publishing some videos that were filmed more recently. Madness! haha
I have just watched a video of another family doing beamish, i did not know you had done it, i live in county durham, and its not far from me, But i actually live in an old mining village in a old mining house 2 up 2 down as they call it, i do have some fun facts, i will chip as i watch the video to see where you go and visit, my comment is at the start of your video
Oh yes, I am a little familiar with the 2 up and 2 down from Welsh mining communities. They often have a box room between the upper rooms... is that true in Durham?
As a Gateshead lad we grew up on chippy food served in newspaper. It was unbeatable for taste
That’s what I hear! I guess that inky flavour was the best LOL.
Also frying in beef fat I guess?
@@MagentaOtterTravels yes done in beef dripping. The way chips should be done not in that limp wristed vegetable oil
@@Mind-your-own-beeswax yep that’s about right 😉
That tram is too cool! Seems like the best way to enter the 1950s! I don't really believe in multi-tasking, but DEFINITELY don't believe you should be swimming while drinking coffee.
The trams are a life saver! That place is SO huge and sprawling! But that's what makes it feel so authentic. Not like Epcot at Disney World ;-)
Ian trolling you with the separate taps 😆😆😆
Yeahhhhh #predictable
Fish and chips were always served in newspaper, in fact as children we would collect old newspapers along with pop bottles and take them to the chippie in exchange for a bag of chips. Sorry, we still have separate taps in lots of buildings. Bait was carried in a miners bait box, and lots of them ate it while down the pit, they could not come up for food. The Sun Inn came from Bishop Auckland, and I can remember when it was taken down brick by brick (they were all numbered) and taken to Beamish to be rebuilt.
Isn’t it amazing the careful work they have done at Beamish to preserve this history of the Northeast?❤️🏴. Thanks so much for your comment! I absolutely love the story of you collecting newspapers and bringing them to the Chippy in exchange for chips! Cheers! X Dara
I’d love to visit that museum! When you said “living museum” I immediately thought of places like Old Sturbridge Village and Colonial Williamsburg here in the eastern U.S. But Beamish looks way cooler!
I do think it's like Colonial Williamsburg... that is the first thing I thought of when I heard about the Beamish!
Mmm, the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley might have a thing or two to say about who is the best in the UK. However, I'll watch your video and hopefully visit Beamish, before taking sides. :)
We do need to visit the Black Country museum! But I had to make that superlative comment because two of our dear friends work at Beamish ;-) LOL