Today we’ll visit the famous Beamish Open-Air Museum, which recreates life in the north east of England during the 1820’s, 1900’s and 1940’s. Step back in time and see how families lived and worked in the years leading up to the First World War, or head to the 1940’s farm and see what life was like on the home front during the Second World War. Experience life in a 1900’s Pit Village showing a colliery community at the time of peak coal production in the north east, and take a look around Rowley Station with its signal box, waiting room and yard just as it was in Edwardian times. We’ll have free time for lunch before our coach transfers us back to Durham for an afternoon at leisure. Dinner is served in the hotel this evening.