Photograph Archive
Welcome to the HLHS Photo Archive
The archive contains a large number (6000+) of old and historic photographs of Hexham and the surrounding areas.
The archive has been categorised into a number of Choices pages, which lead to the Gallery pages displaying the photos. Gallery pages show thumbnail images of a photo, hovering over which will display information about the photo. Clicking on any thumbnail will display the image in its full size. More information here.
When you go to a gallery page, the thumbnails will display in a “lazy” fashion, that is, as needed when you scroll down a page. Galleries with a large number of photos may take some time to display.
Hexham has the greatest coverage, with 15 Choices pages and well over 150 Gallery pages to explore.
Just want to see the recent aditions to the Photo Archive? Check out the New Additions Gallery.
Archive Catalogue
All of the images in the archive are catalogued, with links to the images together with any additional details there are about each image. You can search the catalogue to find images of particular interest.
Comments and Questions
Do you have a question or additional information about a particular image? Or have you spotted an error? If you have, why not use the HLHS Photo Archive Forum to get in touch by clicking on the button.
Copyright
All images are Copyright © Hexham Local History Society 2018-2023, unless otherwise indicated in the Archive. Catalogue entry for an image. Images can ONLY be used for personal research. Any commercial use of an image is forbidden. Please contact the HLHS if you wish to make use of an image.
Gibson Collection
The Gibson Collection of photographs is held in the Northumberland Archives. To get to a list of links to Gibson photographs of Hexham, click here.
The full Gibson Collection catalogue is here.
Acknowledgements
We are particularly grateful to the following people and organisations who have donated the main images for this archive.
Colin Dallison (pictured left) made a major donation of his collection of over 4000 postcards and slides. Other contributors include: Hexham Library; J Britton; K Doonhan; M Benjamin; M Wooldridge; S Sobell; Y Purdy; United Automobile Services collection (courtesy The Bus Archive); H Dixon.
Scanning slides and photos, and provided initial information about each image, was undertaken by a number of people: Mark Benjamin and Andrea Cameron for Colin Dallison’s collection; Mark Benjamin, Ian Hancock, Terry Eccles and Peter Rodger for photos from Hexham Library; Jennifer Britton for images from her postcard collection.
The overall Photo Archive and the information on each image was assembled by Pete Lee.
If you have any photographs or digital images of Hexham and surrounding areas that you are willing to donate to the HLHS Photo Archive, please get in touch with us – details on the Contacts page.