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Beamish is a world famous open air museum, telling the story of life in North East England during the 1820s, 1900s, 1940s and 1950s.
From candy to hardware, these old-fashioned shops sold it all - and some still do! Take a trip back to yesterday with these historic general stores.
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Froelich's 1890 Village: home to John Froelich's 1892 invention of the first gasoline tractor to propel itself forward and backward. Far reaching in its effect on modern agriculture throughout the world. This invention is forerunner of John Deere. Tour highlights: Froelich Tractor Replica, 1891 General Store, Post Office, 1866 One-Room School, Blacksmith Shop, Railroad Depot,
If you are looking for something out of the ordinary to do when you visit Palm Springs, look no further then a trip to Ruddy’s General Store and Museum. This fantastic little spot is designed to look exactly how a general store from the 1930s would look, complete with products, food, and other antiques from...
Mike's General Store 40th Anniversary
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Found this gem of a junk shop on the road-side going through Olalla, BC.
The assistant of the co-operative stores in Beamish Town ready and waiting for the next rush customers to his hardware department.
Step back in time when you visit these old-fashioned country stores filled with nostalgic candies, vintage toys, and charming knickknacks.
Black Country Living Museum, Dudley, West Midlands.
This is the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley, West Midlands. The museum was established in 1975, and the first buildings moved here in 1976. Since then a 26 acre site has been developed, with the unique conditions of living and working in the Black Country from the mid 19th century to early 20th century. It is off Tipton Road in Dudley. This is The Village Centre at the Black Country Living Museum. It has been built on the low ground at the northern end of the museum site which is surrounded on three sides by canals. First up is Gregory’s General Store. It stand's next to Canal Street bridge. The shop was built as a pair of houses and Mrs Gregory first started selling goods from one of the front rooms. As business developed the shop grew. In 1923 major alterations were made and the present shop front installed. Virtually everything required by the community in and around Lawrence Lane was stocked by the shop. Meat and dairy products were sold from the counter at the right-hand end, groceries and greengrocery from the centre and an unlikely combination of sweets and drapery from the left-hand end of the store. This shop was originally built as a pair of houses in 1883 at Lawrence Lane, Oldhill by Charles Gregory, an ironworker. Mrs Gregory ran a shop from the front room of the house they occupied but as trade expanded they converted both houses into a double fronted shop downstairs with living accommodation for the family above. The shop setting is 1925 when Gregory’s store sold virtually everything the local community required, though by necessity the needs of the poor working people were fairly basic. Like many shops at the time Gregory’s would sell a single egg, half a loaf, or an ounce of tea to customers who had barely enough money for their next meal. The shop stocked an unlikely combination of foodstuffs and commodities ranging from meat and dairy products, groceries, fruit and vegetables to sweets, corsets and footwear. They did a big trade in home brewing supplies which was a popular activity in the district. Inside Gregory's Store.
Blists Hill is an open-air museum, one of ten museums operated by the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, built on a former industrial complex located in the Made...
Parachilna. Surprisingly the town, of just 24 blocks, was surveyed in 1863 near a waterhole before there was even widespread pastoral lease holders in the Flinders Ranges but it was an important stopping point on the route from Port Augusta to the Blinman copper mines. The government well was there to provide water for pastoralists and stock drovers wanting to get to the Northern Flinders or Gammon. But more significant was the fact that the town provided access to the copper mines at Blinman which were discovered in 1859. Parachilna Gorge provided a shorter route through fewer hills to get to Blinman than other routes. More survey work was done around Parachilna in 1873 and small leaseholds were offered for sale. The Hundred of Nilpena was declared in 1877 yet no development occurred. Things changed when the great northern railway came here in 1882 on its route to Farina. The line was built a few kilometres to the west and so the government settlement of Parachilna followed market forces and moved west as well. The Parachilna siding was built in 1881 in anticipation of the railway. The Prairie Hotel moved near the siding around 1882 and the current stone hotel was built in 1905. A Post Office followed and in 1890 the government surveyed a second town of Parachilna. It never grew and the main building left today is the Parachilna Prairie Hotel known for its Flinders feral food menu (camel, goat, kangaroo and emu), its Aboriginal art gallery, Flinders foods and coffee in the hotel bar. The hotel also has some Ediacaran fossils displays of early jellyfish like organisms which emerged about 540 to 555 million years ago. These Nilpena fossils are the first known multi-organisms on earth and are of international importance and significance. The publicans own and run Nilpena Station to the west of the settlement. Near the hotel are the heritage listed Parachilna fettlers cottages and the sculpture garden of some Ediacaran fossils. At one time the town had a general store and a school from the early 20th century. It closed a few years ago. Up in the Flinders Ranges behind the hotel is Edeowie Gorge with its Edeowie natural glass. This slag-like opaque rock or lechatelierite is found in clay baked layers which have been subjected to mineralization and oxidation. In Parachilna Gorge east of the town some land was donated to the Soldiers’ T.B. Aid Society to establish a tuberculosis sanatorium in the pristine air there. Partly due to the efforts of Ella Cleggett the Angorichina hostel opened in 1927 and treated patients until 1973. It is now a hostel for travellers. Also east of Parachilna in the Brachina Gorge is where the Ediacaran fossils were found in quartzite rocks. These marine animals occurred within the strata and are the oldest evidence of living organisms on earth. Stromatolites made up of mats of algae are the oldest forms of life but they had no bone structure or sexual reproduction. As marine fossils emerged they ate the stromatolites and stromatolites almost became extinct. But it was they that allowed the formation of the Ediacara fauna or fossil animals which are the oldest creatures one earth. They emerged about 600 million years ago. Once stranded in pools they were fossilised into the rocks. These organisms include jellyfish, worms and other soft bodied marine creatures that differ from the algae in stromatolites because they have soft bone like structures which give them a defined shape. These multicellular organisms were the first one earth to have sexual interaction. The rocks in which the fossils were preserved are about 600 million years old. SA declared the Ediacara Conservation Park in 2007 although the fossils were discovered decades before by Reg Sprigg and documented in 1946. Also in 2007 the fossil site was added to the Australian National Heritage List. Many specimens of these world important fossils are held in the SA Museum collections. There are other sites around the world with Ediacara fossils, using this same name, from North and South America, Africa, Europe and Asia. These fossils had to be protected because there is an international market for the sale of these rare fossils and many were stolen from this region for commercial profit before 2007.
MAP has completed an eye-catching retail design for yamayasu turnpike store in the city of odawara, japan.
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Boston General Store offers a curated selection of high-quality goods for every facet of your lifestyle, with an emphasis on unique, functional products that exemplify thoughtful design and utilitarian beauty.
Where can you build a windmill, take an 1859 Balloon Voyage and shop in an 1836 general store?! Look no further than Conner Prairie in Fishers, Indiana. This interactive outdoor museum will take your family on a journey of adventure while sparking creativity and learning along the way. Here are six reasons why Conner Prairie
