Time marches on. Society advances. Roads expand and old buildings get torn down and replaced. Well, usually. In an open-air museum in the north of England, old buildings and a different way of life ...

A 116-year-old serviette commemorating a County Durham pit disaster which was discovered folded up inside an old book has become the latest donation to Beamish Museum. The delicate serviette, made out ...

Plans to turn historic Beamish Museum houses into holiday cottages have been approved by Durham County Council.

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