Best of British at Beamish

Saturday 13th June 2026 Photo courtesy Tony Kennan I’m embarrassed to admit this blogpost has been languishing half completed in my ‘pending file of blogposts’ for nearly two years but an email from my friend Tony Kennan the other day sending me a photo of Brighton, Hove & District’s Bristol K looking as fabulous as ever as it made a guest appearance at the recent Beamish Museum Transport Week has inspired me to finish uploading all the photographs I took during the visit I made to the Museum in October 2024 and share the brilliant time to be had there with you all. If you like reminiscing about “life in the good old days” it’s well worth paying a visit to Beamish Museum located near Stanley in County Durham. It was the first regional open-air museum in England opening in 1972 since when it has significantly expanded on its 350 acre site, not least with an expanding “50’s style shopping High Street and suburban area” to compliment the older generations of buildings and exhibits that…