Pockerley 30th Anniversary Celebrations at Beamish

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We’ll be celebrating three decades of Pockerley with 30 Georgian activities!  

​​​​​​To mark International Museum Day, things will get off to an explosive start with an impressive display of Napoleonic muster by The Old 68th Durham Light Infantry Society and Display Team! On Saturday, 17th and Sunday, 18th May, visitors can watch drill displays and find out about life in the army at this time in our 1820s Landscape.

Starting from Saturday, 17th May through to 31st December, visitors will be able to learn more about life in Georgian times through a whole host of activities and demonstrations.

From storytelling, blacksmithing and Georgian games to clog dancing and basket making demonstrations, there will be something for the whole family to enjoy.

Other highlights include sundial and compass making, a Georgian hiring fair, wool dying and seed planting. The 30th activity will take place up to New Year’s Eve, when The Ran Tanners will play the traditional music of Georgian England using fiddles, bagpipes and squeezeboxes.

Pockerley Old Hall became an official museum exhibit and visitor area in 1995, helping to bring the Georgian era to life. See Pockerley Old Hall as it would have stood in the 1820s, representing the home of a well-to-do tenant farmer, and discover a period of great industrial, social and cultural change.

For further information and updates, please visit the Beamish Museum website.

As with all daytime events, you can use your Unlimited Pass or Friends of Beamish membership to enjoy this special event.