Families are encouraged to put their skills of deduction to the test and investigate the likes of mystery murders and bank robberies during the school half-term break.
The invitation comes from Beamish Museum which will be running a Discover Crimes of the Centuries event from February 18-26, looking at cases dating from the 1800s up to the 1950s - the period covered by the County Durham site. And these will include the murder of 'Joe the quilter' whose reconstructed cottage - the scene of his death - is one of the museum exhibits.
Joseph Hedley was a Georgian quilter who was murdered in 1826 in a crime which shocked the nation and his cottage in Northumberland has been faithfully rebuilt at Beamish - right down to the wide crack it had in an exterior wall. His murder will feature in the event during its examination of crime and punishment in the Georgian period.
