Beamish - 'The living museum of the North'

In Beamish museum most of the houses, shops and other buildings you see are not new houses made to look like victorian, edwardian and georgian buildings, no. they are buildings from their period, partly taken apart and and taken to the museum and rebuilt. 
Each area of the Museum tells the story of Georgian, Victorian or Edwardian living. You can see how life in North East England changed over 100 years, from a Georgian Agricultural lifestyle to the Industrial Revolution.

There are vintage trams and buses, there are volunteers at Beamish who walk around in clothes from the period. It's not called 'the living museum' for no reason!