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Nicole Goodwin

Beamish Museum to open 1950s farm this weekend after being transported brick by brick from Weardale

Beamish Museum's latest attraction will open to visitors this weekend with a special celebration to mark the occasion.

Spain's Field Farm has been moved stone by stone and rebuilt at Beamish to show life in the 1950s on the region's upland farms. It will accompany the living museum's 1950s Front Street Terrace in highlighting life was like during that time.

Spain's Field Farm originally stood for centuries in Eastgate, near Stanhope in Weardale, before being dismantled and transported to the museum. Around 1,170 tonnes of Spain's Field Farm's stone and timber were moved to the museum after the farm was kindly donated to Beamish by the Jopling family.

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