Photos from Beamish Museum’s special2012 Museums at Night opening in May 2012.
Cultural and heritage venues throughout the country took part in this festival, during which The Pit Village in the Beamish Museum opened at night, providing a reenacted, interactive insight into how Edwardian pitmen and their families spent their evenings once the day’s work was done.
Photos by Tim Gander:
Richard Wade of the North East Homing Union is dressed in costume of the early 20th Century and shows seven-year-old Nathaniel Hainsworth of Sunderland how to hold a pigeon during the Museums at Night event at Beamish Museum in County Durham
At Beamish Museum in County Durham, as part of the Museums at Night event, David Power of the North East Homing Union shows eight-year-old Stephen Bean a young pigeon by the fire in the living room of one of the miners’ cottages. David and Stephen are dressed in 1913 period costume for the event
Helen Power of the North East Homing Union pigeon fanciers shows five-year-old Sophie Campbell of Sunderland a pair of pigeons during a demonstration of historical past times at Beamish Museum in County Durham. The event was part of the national Museums at Night, late-night-opening programme
Anchal Puri, aged 26, of Newcastle, gets a hands-on experience with a pigeon at Beamish Museum in County Durham as part of the Museums at Night event. Richard Wade (right) of the North East Homing Union is dressed in 1913 period costume for the event designed to show pigeon racing as one of many past-times miners would have had at the time
David Power of the North East Homing Union holds a pigeon in one of the minders’ cottages at Beamish Museum, Co. Durham, as part of the Museums at Night event during which pigeons were used to illustrate some of the miners’ past-times in the early 20th Century.
