1900's Pit Village

Explore the 1900s Pit Village at Beamish, The Living Museum of the North

call into the cottages in The 1900s Pit Village to see how miners and their families lived. Learn your times tables in the school and visit the chapel

Experience life in The 1900s Pit Village, showing a colliery community at the time of peak coal production in the North East. Francis Street The Francis Street cottages came to Beamish from Hetton-le-Hole, on Wearside, and were originally built in the