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Pictures of LL Model Name Original Town Visit? LL Ref. Dates Actual Location Grid Reference IoE
Beamish Pit Village  Beamish Pit Village Museum   Oct 10 Pit Village

Beamish Museum

DH9 0RG

 

  109405

Lilliput Lane's "Beamish Pit Village" is based on buildings at the Pit Village at Beamish Museum  Beamish, Co Durham  DH9 0RG

 All Photos: Jan and Geoff Hampson (except where noted)

© Copyright Kevin Rushton and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence

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Photos: Jan and Geoff Hampson

    Photos: Hilary Armstrong

Mahogany Drift Mine [109405]   BLB

The Colliery Heapstead building.

The tall stone engine house came from Beamish 2nd Pit.

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Photos: Jan and Geoff Hampson

Photo: Hilary Armstrong

Pit Hill Methodist Chapel 
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Photos: Jan and Geoff Hampson

Photo: Hilary Armstrong

The Beamish Board School, from nearby East Stanley, first opened in 1892. 

The three classrooms accommodated some 200 children.

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Photos: Jan and Geoff Hampson

   Photo: Hilary Armstrong

Pit Cottages

(from Francis Street, Hetton-le-Hole near Sunderland.) They were part of a row of of 27 houses build in the 1860s and housed pitmen's families until the late 1970s.

 

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