With the recent republication of A History of Shawdon Hall, this prompted me to search for a vintage image of the Hall, as the ones we’ve had access to are relatively recent images. I eventually found and purchased a postcard from Berlin. Yes! Berlin in Germany. Who’d have thought that you’d have to go back to the EU to obtain old images of your local area?
Thanks once more to May Wilson sharing her personal collection of vintage photographs of Powburn and the Breamish Valley, we have been able to add another image of the Old Powburn Shop to the Breamish Valley Photographic Collection (BVPC).
Thanks to May Wilson for letting us have a copy of an old (possibly 1950s-1960s) photograph of some properties in Powburn from her personal collection.
If you read the recent post entitled Wholesale Rabbit and Game Dealer about Andrew Thompson and The Old Powburn Shop, you will likely have noticed that May Wilson (who kindly provided a copy of the postcard featured in the post) also recently came into possession of two other postcards – both of which give views of Powburn prior to 1913. They are:
Thanks to Jean Givens of Brandon, a new photo has been added to the Breamish Valley Photographic Collection – a photograph of 30 soldiers in the local Home Guard during World War II.
Courtesy of Teresa Power of High Powburn, we’ve added a copy of a 1909 black and white vintage photo to the Breamish Valley Photographic Collection.
Thanks to Marj Greshon sharing her personal collection of photographs, we are gradually adding new photos to the Breamish Valley Photographic Collection.
As part of the Breamish Valley Photographic Collection we continue to gradually add historic photos to the collection to build up a sense of the social history of the Breamish Valley.
As part of the Hedgeley Estate Carr-Ellison Family Collection, we have just added three new portrait photographs:
As part of the Breamish Valley Photographic Collection, the images that were part of the 2002 Golden Jubilee Cookbook, compiled by May Wilson of Powburn, are now available for viewing online.
You can access the index of images here>>
If you have any photographs that would help us construct a visual social history of the Breamish valley and would be willing to share them, please CONTACT US.
George Blyth was an enthusiastic photographer. He took numerous photographs of people, places and events in the Breamish Valley.
