Wednesday - 5th September 2007 (Time TBA)
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The Black Country Living Museum deals with
the history of the Black Country, the heart of industrial England, with
recreated buildings from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries brought to
life by costumed demonstrators and trained educational guides.
The museum occupies a twenty-six acre urban heritage park in the shadow of
Dudley Castle.
Electric tramcars and trolleybuses transport visitors from the entrance in a recreated factory to the village area with thirty buildings situated by the canal basin. Coal mine displays include underground workings, colliery surface buildings and a replica of the 1712 Newcomen steam engine. In all forty-two separate displays have either been re-erected or built to old plans to create a living open air museum.
The Black Country Museum currently contains around 40,000 items in its various collections.
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