Classic Car Show & Beamish Living Museum

Experience a real sense of the past at Beamish, and discover what life was like in North East England in the 1820s,1910s and 1940s! Beamish is a living, working museum, set in 300 acres of beautiful Durham countryside. Costumed folk bring to life the Town, Pit Village, Home Farm and Pockerley Old Hall!

 

Trams and period buses operate in a continuous loop around the museum site. These historic vehicles can store folded wheelchairs and folded pushchairs although space is limited. Please use the pathways rather than the roads and stay off the tram tracks when walking around the museum.

 

There are a range of catering facilities available across the museum. Enjoy takeaway food and drink from Davy’s fish and chip shop and Sinkers’ Bait Cabin in The 1900s Pit Village. Pick up delicious treats from Herron’s Bakery and Jubilee Confectioners in The 1900s Town. Sit down and enjoy a break at the Entrance Coffee Shop, the Tea Rooms or The Sun Inn pub in The 1900s Town or visit John’s Café or Middleton’s fish and chip shop in The 1950s Town. There are also a number of extra catering outlets open each weekend and during local school holidays.

 

Sunday 19th April - Start your engines and get to Beamish to see Sunderland & District Classic Vehicle Society’s fantastic display of cars on the museum’s Events Field.

 

• Admission is included

 

PLEASE NOTE: Day Excursions are non refundable.

 

Please Note: If you wish to take a mobility scooter, wheelchair or rollator with you it must be requested at the time of booking. Any such equipment must fold flat for storage or be capable of being broken down into pieces of no more than 20kg. We cannot accept larger scooters (class 3) as these are too large and heavy to lift. We sometimes operate minibus feeders to minimise time, these vehicles CANNOT convey motorised wheelchairs/scooters.