What is Beamish some will inevitably ask. Put simply, if you don’t know, it’s the one museum you really must visit, and you should plan on staying at least a couple of days.

It’s an open-air museum featuring towns and scenes from the North. One slogan is “bringing the past to life” although this looked a little odd in the back of the period hearse!  The large site features a two-mile circular roadway and tram line around which you will find many features Continue reading →

It’s been awhile since my last blog post, due to too many things to do like impending GDPR Rules (if you don’t know what that is think yourself lucky) and new websites for EDM Models. I have managed to keep up with the new photography interest and I’ll just visit the latest efforts in this post and then leave it to get back to trains.

Clare and I have continued with our BBC set topic challenge and I also went on a guided night photography walk around York which apart from being freezing was very interesting and also helped meet that weeks challenge topic which was `Star’ so this picture of the entrance to The Star Inn did it.  It was a 30+ second exposure and believe it or not someone came out of The Star, walked through the picture and stood at my side chatting but managed not to appear in the image! Continue reading →