A PRE-1950s agricultural dealership is among the attractions at a four-day event at a leading museum.

Beamish Museum, near Stanley, County Durham, is holding Agricultural Power from the Past, from tomorrow (Thursday, September 4) as part of its Great North Festival of Agriculture.

The dealers’ marquee and sales display was a common sight at shows and farming events around the region.

On display will be horse-drawn machinery, farm carts and ploughs.

Agricultural Power from the Past will showcase the power behind the North-East’s great agricultural heritage. There will be working displays around the museum, showing the evolution of farming practices in the first half of the 20th Century.

These will include heavy horses at work in the fields and carrying their heavy loads back to the 1940s Farm, pre-1950s tractors, and demonstrations of straw baling.

Throughout the event steam locomotives will be working on the colliery railway and at Rowley Station along with steam tractors and rollers.

Restored vehicles – cars, motorcycles and bicycles - will be on show and in action, courtesy of the Friends of Beamish.

Visitors will be able to ride on the seven-and-a-quarter inch gauge model railway of the Beamish Model Engineers Group, who will stage an exhibition in the Resource Centre.

Power from the Past runs from 10am to 5pm each day, For Beamish Museum admission charges visit www.beamish.org.uk