Exploring the Town of Corbridge and the Housesteads Roman Fort on Hadrian's Wall
Day 2, Part 2 of the Great SPiS Adventure. We have progressed to the town of Corbridge in the north of England. A beautiful little town to stroll around in. Last stop of the day is a large Roman fortress along Hadrian's Wall called Housesteads. This is a large and rather remarkable ruin of a 2000 year old Roman fort that was one of Rome's last defense against the barbarians to the north.
Pit Village and Colliery a Bit of Old England
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The Mahogony Drift Mine is original to Beamish, having opened in 1855 and after closing, was brought back into use in 1921 to transport coal from Beamish Park Drift to Beamish Cophill Colliery. It opened as a museum display in 1979. Included in the display is the winding engine and a short section of trackway used to transport tubs of coal to the surface, and a mine office. Visitor access into the mine shaft is by guided tour.The colliery features both a standard gauge and narrow gauge railway - the former representing how coal was transported to its onward destination, and the latter typically used by Edwardian collieries for internal purposes. The standard gauge railway is laid out to serve the deep mine - wagons being loaded by dropping coal from the heapstead - and runs out of the yard to sidings laid out along the northern edge of the Pit Village.
On the standard gauge railway there are two engine sheds in the colliery yard, the smaller brick, wood and metal structure being an operational building, the larger brick built structure being presented as Beamish Engine Works, a reconstruction of an engine shed formerly at Beamish 2nd Pit. Used for locomotive and stock storage, it is a long, single track shed featuring a servicing pit for part of its length, visitors can walk along the full length in a segregated corridor. A third engine shed has been constructed at the southern end of the yard (i.e. the other side of the heapstead to the other two sheds), also in brick (lower half) and corrugated iron, and is used for both narrow and standard gauge vehicles (on one road), although it is not connected to either system - instead being fed by low-loaders and used for long term storage only.
The narrow gauge railway is serviced by a corrugate iron engine shed, and is being expanded to eventually encompass several sidings.
There are a number of industrial steam locomotives (including rare examples by Stephen Lewin, from Seaham, and Black, Hawthorn & Co), and many chaldron wagons (the region’s traditional type of colliery railway rolling stock, and which became a symbol of Beamish Museum). The locomotive Coffee Pot No 1 is often in steam during the summer.Alongside the colliery is the pit village, representing life in the mining communities that grew alongside coal production sites in the North East, many having come into existence solely because of the industry, such as Seaham Harbour, West Hartlepool, Esh Winning and Bedlington.Miner's Cottages
The row of six miner's cottages in Francis Street represent the tied housing provided by colliery owners to mine workers. Relocated to the museum in 1976, they were originally built in the 1860s in Hetton-le-Hole by Hetton Coal Company. They feature the common layout of a single-storey with a kitchen to the rear, the main room the house, and parlour to the front, rarely used (although it was common for both rooms to be used for sleeping, with disguised folding dess beds common), and with children sleeping in attic spaces upstairs. In front are long gardens, used for food production, with associated sheds. An outdoor toilet and coal bunker were in the rear yards, and beyond the cobbled back lane to their rear are assorted sheds used for cultivation, repairs and hobbies. Chalkboard slates attached to the rear wall were used by the occupier to tell the mine's knocker up when they wished to be woken for their next shift.
No.2 is presented as a Methodist family's home, featuring good quality Pitman's mahogany furniture; No.3 is presented as occupied by a second generation well off Irish Catholic immigrant family featuring many items of value (so they could be readily sold off in times of need) and an early 1990s range; No.3 is presented as more impoverished than the others with just a simple convector style Newcastle oven, being inhabited by a miner's widow allowed to remain as her son is also a miner, and supplementing her income doing laundry and making/mending for other families. All the cottages feature examples of the folk art objects typical of mining communities. Also included in the row is an office for the miner's paymaster. In the rear alleyway of the cottages is a communal bread oven, which were commonplace until miner's cottages gradually obtained their own kitchen ranges. They were used to bake traditional breads such as the Stottie, as well as sweet items, such as tea cakes. With no extant examples, the museum's oven had to be created from photographs and oral history.School[edit]
The school opened in 1992, and represents the typical board school. in the educational system of the era .
Bygone Northumberland Episode 11 of 12
In this episode we visit 'Bygone Northumberland', a county situated in the North East of England where we view vintage photographs & postcards from Northumberlands past.
Crookham, Chatton, Cullercoats, Corbridge, Elsdon Towers, Felton, Gallowhill, Greenhaugh, Acklington, Gosforth, Norham Castle, Newton By The Sea, Longhirst Hall, Millfield, Hepscott, Lowick, Horsley, Lilburn Tower, Kirk Whelpington, Keilder Castle, Hexham, Hethpool, Horsley, Harbottle, Haltwhsistle, Haydon Bridge, Hanxley, Heaton, Hexham, Newcastle, Heaton, Allendale, Newburn, Otterburn, Pallinsburn, Ponteland
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RARE sight at Disney’s Grand Floridian “Big Bertha” Organ (Limonaire Organ)
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