StoneRoad2013's photos with the keyword: Weardale Museum

That heavy lamp looks very similar to the ones found on level crossing gates, or buffer stops.

CWS - Co-operative Wholesale Society. Also manufacturers of various products supplied to the Retail Societies, usually when what was commercially available wasn't up to the standard required, or the supplier would not deal with the Co-op movement.

Packet of CWS Co-op Tea. Packet possibly predates WW2 ? [will do some research] . Not part of the Isaac's Tea Trail !

Managed to get here whilst the museum was actually open. Certainly an interesting place ... Main themes - Domestic life inc the Isaacs Tea Trail, Railways, Minerals / mining, religion - specifically Methodism / Wesleyan [ref High House Chapel], Genealogy inc WW1 memorials weardalemuseum.org.uk

This plaque, on the Weardale Museum building - commemorates the Wear Valley Extension Railway [1895] and mentions the line from Stanhope to Wearhead, which closed in 1963. The present day Weardale Railway is an 18 mile heritage line running from a connection with the main rail network at Bishop Auckland to Eastgate in Weardale, County Durham, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Currently a 16 mile section of line between Bishop Auckland and Stanhope has been restored for passenger and freight use. [I believe that the section up to Eastgate - the now demolished cement works - still has track in situ and the WR would like to reopen / relay the full route] www.weardale-railway.org.uk

Substantial long case clock aka grandfather clock. Can't make out the maker's name, but it looks like the place of manufacture was Bishop Auckland.

Looking at these domestic items - some are more modern than the museum's setting - I can happily play "I've got one of those" ... for at least half a dozen items on this table !

The "Heart Of Weardale" is a 70kg [?] Fluorite specimen from Boltsburn Mine, Weardale