Day 13

The Beamish Museum. This place was my favorite excursion we had during our entire stay of England. The Beamish is an open-air museum where you get to experience different eras of British history. One of my favorite parts was the 1920’s town. We got to see houses that looked just like that of the amazing “Billy Elliot” movie. It was amazing to see an area that looked like both his neighborhood in the movie, as well as the houses in “Listen to Britain”, the documentary we watched early in our stay.

This visit really helped me understand and appreciate more of how much the British have gone through. From their own economic crash in the 1920s to World War I and then World War II – the Brits are an extremely resilient people.