Morris Minor Owners Club

Greetings all,
I'm marooned up in the North East at Newcastle from Tuesday the 17th of May till Friday the 29th - any idea of anything around there that's Morrisy (or anthing else engineery) to see in those dates? Gotta go there 'cos my daughter's given birth to a girl and you know how it is - with a grandaughter, daughter and wife all cooing over each other I'm going to surplus to requirements. I'll be letting the older grandughter (she's only 5 but a bright, sunny adventrous child) drag me around the shops visiting cafes and eat lots of buns, and we'll probably explore Byker Wall and visit the Turbinia again (the boat not the pub), perhaps do a raid on Hadrian's Wall, a circuit around the Metro and over the ferry, but there must be more. Something Morrisy, something steam, something solid and engineery. Its time she learnt. Any ideas?
Regards, MikeN.

Beamish?
http://www.beamish.org.uk/

You'll have just missed the NE Branch first outing. You could give Cragside a look.

You're not that far from North Yorks Moor Railway...........

transporter bridge at m,bro.and a scrounge round all the old scrappies at tom roy,battersby junction,while you are visiting the n.yorks railway

There is the Stephenson Railway Museum.

http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/stephenson/

Think they have a short section of rail too (at least they did when I was last there - for a rally as it happens)

Thanks for the ideas folks. That should keep me going for the fortnight. But if there's anything esp Morrisy let me know. Regards, MikeN.

were you in town a day earlier there is Souter Lighthouse not a moggy event but an all makes event of which the north east branch of mmoc will be in attendance.
However all is not lost 23rd May http://www.nvta.org.uk/darlingtonrailwaymuseum/