Archive for August, 2009
Take a Break – It’s Sunday!
Posted in ART, ART HISTORY, BRONTE BITES, DESIGN, FAVORITE ART: Art I LOVE, WEIRD AND WACKY DESIGN with tags ART, ARTISTS BIRTHDAYS, blogging, brontes, teapots on August 31, 2009 by echostainsNights (and days) on the Toon (Newcastle) Beamish Shops
Posted in Architecture, DESIGN, NIGHT AND DAYS ON THE TOON (NEWCASTLE TRIP), PAST PLACES with tags Beamish open air museum, county durham, nostalgia, old advertising on August 30, 2009 by echostainsYou can go into all the old shops in Beamish. Here’s a few pics;
Even the prices were right!
The assistant in the Co Op was a lovely German student, who spoke excellent English and was very informative! All the food labels are printed from the original!
All the buildings are amazing, and the Print shop is no exception. You can really get a sense of the past in these buildings!
There’s something quite charming about old packaging. Although the colours are limited, it was still possible for the personalities of these items to shine and jostle with each other. Some of these brands are still going strong too!
My previous posts about Beamish and the Newcastle trip
More pics from Beamish
Still Beaming about Beamish
Beamish
Art at the Baltic: Sarah Sze ‘Tilting Planet’
St Nicholas Gothic Cathedral
Out and about
Bessie Surtees House
More HERE
Beamish – More pics from the Open Air Museum!
Posted in Architecture, DESIGN, NIGHT AND DAYS ON THE TOON (NEWCASTLE TRIP) with tags advertising signs, Beamish open air museum, county durham, nostalgia on August 29, 2009 by echostainsStill continuing with the pics from our Newcastle trip and more pictures of Beamish the open air museum set n the rolling countryside of County Durham. We stopped off here on our way back to Manchester. Although we spent most of the day there, we didn’t see half of the place, – it’s just vast and there wasn’t enough time.
The town part is amazing and you can go into all the buildings and shops. There’s a bank, a printers, confectioners (who make home made sweets on the premises), unfortuately this was so packed out that we couldn’t get pictures.
There’s a bank, a printers, a working pub, a Co Operative store. There’s a garage and a tea rooms! So much to see and not enough time to see it in.
As well as the town, there’s also Pockerly Manor. I would have really liked to see that! Also the colliery village, a home farm, a Waggonway, as well as a railway and museum!!!
Coming tomorrow – ‘Inside the shops of Beamish’
My previous posts about Beamish and the Newcastle trip