Photographing the Roman Wall Exhibition on the move

24 Oct 2022 ARCHIVED (over 3 months old) - view latest news

As part of the yearlong Hadrian’s Wall 1900 festival, Northumberland Libraries are running a project called Photographing the Roman Wall: Then and Now.

The main event, in partnership with Northumberland Archives, is an exhibition of photographs by the Hexham photographer and archaeologist, John Pattison Gibson (1838 – 1912). The exhibition of 40 photographs will be available to view at the following venues over the coming months:

Knott Memorial Hall, Towne Gate, Heddon-on-the-Wall,
Monday 31 October – Friday 18 November 2022
Opening hours:
Mondays: 1pm – 3pm and 5pm – 7pm
Tuesdays and Wednesdays : 10am – 4pm
Thursdays and Fridays: 1pm – 3pm
 
Hexham Abbey, Beaumont Street, Hexham
22 November – 1 December 2022
 
County Hall, Morpeth
3 December – 27 January 2023

The Gibson Collection is housed at Northumberland Archives and the exhibition is a wonderful opportunity to view photographs from the collection.

Gibson was a highly skilled photographer and he received many awards both locally and abroad. Aside from his passion for photography, Gibson had an avid interest in archaeology and the Roman Wall in particular. He participated in several excavations and used his photographs to document the findings. The photographs date from c1890 to c1910 and for historians and the public alike they provide a unique record of the wall and the countryside at this time.