It was summer 2010. Kam had the courage to drive an old red Nissan owned by one of our friends to Beamish Museum. It took us around 45 minutes from Bowburn. We had to pay GBP13 per entry. Since we were Durham University students, we thought that we could get a discount, but, nope. No exception here.
When I was in Durham, I went to several museums in Bath, Bristol and Nottingham and castles cum museum like the Edinburgh castle. But, nothing prepared us when we went to Beamish museum. It was surreal. The staff who work there wear costumes and whatsnot. It is a nice experience to be able to go to an open space museum. I took many pictures but unfortunately, I wore something which was not shari’ah compliant 😀
There you go, I only post one picture here. When we took this picture, the three of us was at this primary-cum-secondary school. They used wooden-slab and chalk to write, instead of using paper based exercise book. Beamish was an old coal mine. So, it has an actual village equipped with facilities like a church, shops, a bank, living quarters for the workers and such. Summer is the best time to come here if the weather is nice. We went there when the weather was nice and perfect for summer (i.e. no rain). So, we had a blast! This was the year before Kam and Fiqah finished their study.