Visitors can now visit a cinema, toy shop, electrical shop and a record store at the 1950s town inside Beamish, The Living Museum of the North.
A cinema, toy shop, electrical shop and a record store now feature at Beamish, The Living Museum of the North.Communities who were involved in the project took part in the opening celebrations, which included a grand parade.
They follow the recent opening of the Georgian Drovers Tavern and pottery, and the museum will also be opening two Georgian-themed self-catering cottages this year, which will see visitors being able to stay overnight for the first time. “Being permitted to voice my love of this wonderful building, so lovingly, recreated at Beamish and having started my ‘over half a century’ in the cinema business at the Grand cinema and seeing the end product is not unlike, to coin a phrase, being the mighty ‘Wizard of Oz’ sitting in my seat, and looking back some almost 10 years working with the Beamish team, and seeing and remembering all those staff from the 50s, who helped make it ‘a night of dreams at the pictures’," he said.
"He then expanded into newspapers and cigarettes. While living above the shop he met and married Joan and started a family."The Reece Ltd Radio and Electrical Services electrical and record shop is named after the North East engineer Alan Reece, founder of the Reece Foundation. Simon Gilroy, Trustee of The Reece Foundation, said: “We are confident that young learners and visitors will delight in exploring the 1950s appliances and records, and in participating in activities led by the museum’s Learning Team.
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