We went over to Beamish the other week to see how they lived in them old days. The place is a spooky reconstruction of 1914 with the whole area fenced off and set-up excatly how it was. They have actors walking around in period dress, a tram, a steamtrain and a whole village where you can basically walk around and take in the sights of vintage Britain.
The place has grown loads over the years and has a manor house, a mine!, a farm and all sorts of other things to see. You can go into all the houses/shops/banks etc and see how they did things in those days and they even have a fully working pub.
The Victorian dentist is always a favorite, but the sweet shop has all the old classics sold by the quarter.
It's pretty crazy walking round and seeing all the actors really hamming it up - I kept expecting them to mafuntion like those yul brinner robots in westworld! (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070909/)
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