Barnard castle

[wayne]

Anyone around here this weekend? Taking new caravan out for the weekend before I head to holland and Belgium in 2 weeks. Gonna got to high force tomorrow if weather is ok. Can anyone recommend anywhere else within half an hour drive.

 

[Alan.P]

Depends on what you like really, Darlington is half hour ish with the Darlington Rail Museum, first train etc etc, a little over the half hour you have Beamish Museum, worth the drive for a glimpse of yesteryear, and you have the Yorkshire Dales on the doorstep. That lot should keep you busy

 

[DHTiling]

You have Bowes museum as well and the otter reserve just off the A66.

Hamsterly forest is worth a few hrs out.

 

[kilty55]

is bowes a mining museum dave?

 

[DHTiling]

is bowes a mining museum dave?

Nah.

 

[Daveshadowman]

There is a lead mine museum at Stanhope not far worth a visit
then the is also my local , and Dave both worth a visit

 

[DHTiling]

There is a lead mine museum at Stanhope not far worth a visit
then the is also my local , and Dave both worth a visit

killhope mine is that dave..?

 

[Dougs Third Go]

love Barney Castle, mind I loved my caravan too until some thieving beggar half inched it!!

 

[strummerman]

darlington ur avin a laugh its a .... hole

 

[Daveshadowman]

killhope mine is that dave..?

Yes

 

[kilty55]

right then

 

[DHTiling]

right then

Sorry Jamie i was on the moby and did not know how to link to bowes museum... The Bowes Museum

 

[DHTiling]

Purpose built in the 19th century by John and Joséphine Bowes, the Museum has a wonderful story to tell.

John Bowes was a successful businessman who travelled to Paris in 1847 to explore his interest in the arts. It was here he bought a theatre and met the Parisian actress Joséphine Coffin-Chevallier whom he married in 1852. Joséphine was a talented amateur painter who was interested in a whole range of art forms including paintings, ceramics, furniture and textiles. Soon the couple began to develop the idea of creating a world-class museum back in John’s ancestral home of Teesdale in order to introduce the wider world of art to the local people.

More info here >>> The Bowes Museum: History of The Bowes Museum

 

[Alan.P]

darlington ur avin a laugh its a .... hole

Yep, and a hole I called home for a fair few years, better the hole you know

 

[kilty55]

areet dave cheers i thought it was mining as i stayed at that bowes incline hotel a few times just assumed it was attached in some way