StoneRoad2013's photos with the keyword: Museum of Weardale

WW1 memorial / poppy project. The aim is to have a poppy for every name on the War Memorial [I think the one pictured is from St John's Chapel]. The loss of life in wartime is appalling, WW1 especially destroyed so many, and in ways other than by killing them outright in battle. {my maternal grandfather lost his right hand in the trenches and he had what I now regard as PTSD - previously known as shell shock}

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.

Edmundson ticket press, this and the card tickets were invented in the 1840s by Thomas Edmundson when he worked as a stationmaster at what is now Brampton, on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway. Used to date stamp / validate the small pasteboard / cardboard tickets. These were pre-printed & numbered for popular journeys and kept in a special rack in the booking office. The numbers sold & cash reconciliation would be carried out on a daily and weekly basis ...

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 !

These booklets were products of the MIC ["Mutual Improvement Classes"] that almost all railway companies encouraged their staff to operate. MICs are a means to train the upcoming / new staff in the details of their jobs. Especially important with tasks that didn't occur every day, or even every month - such as running trains with pilotmen ...