A FOUR-DAY festival of all things Fifties gets underway on Thursday.
Beamish Museum, which is about to start work on building a 1950s town, is holding an annual festival dedicated to the Rock n’ Roll years.
The Festival of the 50s starts on Thursday, celebrating food, fashions and culture from the era.
Geraldine Straker, Remaking Beamish Project Officer, said: “We’re really looking forward to this year’s Festival of 50s, which looks at change and development in different areas across the decade.
“We’ll be highlighting the changes that occurred in fashion, technology, food, health and welfare, whilst enjoying live music and dancing, getting dressed up and just having a great day out”.
Visitors will be able to dance along to band Hop, Skiffle and Jump, pop into a 50s toy shop, try a 1950s hairdo and relive the 1953 Coronation by decorating a float.
Durham Amateur Football Trust will bring sporting memorabilia and the North East Police History Society will demonstrate a typical police station.
- For further information, visit beamish.org.uk.
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