Beamish Museum WW1 Transport~ Part 4

Part 1 HERE Part 2 HERE Part 3 HERE Coming to the end of our day out now and first off some WW1 Nurses There were quite a few horse-drawn buggies with WW1 re-enactors driving them as well as the odd motor vehicle and a genuine WW1 airplane, though it […]

Beamish Museum WW1 Transport ~ part 3

Part 1 HERE Part 2 HERE The museum is currently undergoing an £18million expansion, to include a 1950s Town and coaching inn. They have a huge store cupboard where they’re getting stuff together for it. This next shot is of a contraption that was used by hairdressers to perm ladies hair! apparently they would sometimes, […]

Beamish Museum WW1 Transport ~ Part 2

Part 1 HERE We came across a lot of horses, and people whilst we wandered around the museum The 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge’s Own) was a cavalry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1759 and notable for its participation in the Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War. These chaps were […]

Beamish Museum ~ WW1 ~ Horses Edition ~ April 2018 ~ part 1

In April 2016 Sophie and I went along to the WW1 Vehicles & Steam fair at Beamish Museum. On checking their website we found that this year they were doing horses of WW1. The horses were not 100 years old of course, but there were people were all dressed up in period costume and showing […]

Camel Parade South Shields~ Dec 2017 ~ Part 2

Part 1 HERE After the drummers finished it was time to walk down and find a good spot to set up the tripods for the firework display over the sea. On the way I took a couple of shots of the illuminated people and strange looking Father Christmases So on to the fireworks, which I […]

Camel Parade~South Shields~ Dec 2017~ part 1

2017 saw the 4th year that the Camel Parade has been an event in South Shields, Sophie and I went for the first time last year a few photo’s of which I posted HERE, so this year we made a return trip knowing what to expect. It involves 3 camels with their handlers and riders […]

The Diwali Festival~ Sunderland ~ Nov 2017~ Part 2

Part 1 HERE Bring on the dancing girls! And guys too. Not much to say except it was full of colour and joy and laughter. These guys were more fit than a fit thing on a fit stick! The lady dancers watching the chaps come down the stairs they got everyone they could up on […]

The Diwali Festival~ Sunderland~ Nov 2017~ Part 1

Diwali is one of the most popular festivals of Hinduism, it spiritually signifies the victory of light over darkness, good over evil, knowledge over ignorance, and hope over despair, and it is also celebrated by Jains, Sikhs and Newar Buddhists to mark different historical events and stories. It is a five-day festival in many regions of India, […]

Simonside Country Fair ~ August 2017 ~Doggy edition

Part 1. Of course everyone and his dog had a dog at the country fair, so it would have been rude not to photograph some of them. They had time trials for dogs to fetch a little bean bag which was fun to watch That little doggy wanted the beanbag back when he’d done […]