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Photograph: Sailing ships (and fairground not shown) made by Ray Mankin and model steam engines made by other Friends on show to visitors at the Power from the Past on site event.
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Outdoor Work at Beamish Museum.
Outdoors, we have planted 300 trees by the Great Shed. Several volunteers took part in the opening ceremony there, in suitable costume and a team is now beginning to work there on afternoons. They will be in costume and help visitors, whilst the paid staff are running the Steam Elephant. If you would like to help with this, please contact the Friends' Office.
The Visitor Survey team is also back in action again this year.
Publicity: We have been involved in several publicity events. Our own Power from the Past at the Museum included the handover by the Friend's Chair, Dr. Frank Atkinson, of the 1900 Humber Quadricycle to the Museum.
The Museum Director was successfully given a trip around the site by the Quad. On the first weekend in June, our workshop was open for visitors to view and to talk with us about the jobs we were doing.
We are constantly active on site at the Museum and have taken part in National Archaeology Day, Family Day and Make a Difference Day.
Recently, more volunteers have become involved mostly with interpretation work.
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Photograph: Displays for visitors.
An outside location on a bright clear day shows a group of visitors looking at sailing ship and steam engine models displayed on a trestle table. There is a blue sky just visible in the background and a number of tall trees in the distance. But most of the picture is taken up by a large model sailing ship with a number of white sails and a black hull. There is another sailing ship behind the first and it is difficult to distinguish between the two as to which sail belongs to which ship.
Behind the ships can be seen part of a model fairground carousel. Lower half right edge stand a line of visitors looking at the models. Nearest is a boy in a bright red cap and jacket with black trousers. Low left corner is a model steam engine in red and green standing on the light brown tressle table. TEXT