We now have our own Flickr site. The first batch of scanned images from the Antiquaries’ photo archive has now been uploaded. If you can offer a name for an image entitled ‘Unknown’, and have a Flickr account. you can add a comment in the box below the photo. Others can e-mail Irwin Thompson, who has set up the site for us. Please include a link to a photo or website as “proof”.

Collections featured so far

Geoffrey Briggs Archive. These are glass slides primarily of churches in various parts of England in the 1950s. Geoffrey died in 2016, and bequeathed his slide collection to the Society. He was an expert on Northumbrland's medieval churches, publishing The medieval churches of Northumberland, (Newcastle upon Tyne: Keepdate Publishing, 2002) available in our library at BJ 047, and a number of guidebooks to individual churches, along with various articles in Archaeologia Aeliana.

John Hume Archive. These are glass slides taken between the late 1890s and mid-1950s by a well-known amateur photgrapher called John Hume. By trade, he was a mechanical engineer, sometime of the firm of Reed and Foggin.

John Hume Archive. These are slides taken between the late 1890s and mid-1950s by a well-known amateur photgrapher called John Hume. By trade, he was a mechanical engineer, sometime of the firm of Reed and Foggin.

Barbara Harbottle Archive. This consists around 2300 slides, mainly views and records of archaeological digs. They are of historic interest, and in some cases may provide the only record of buildings or events. They were bequeathed to us by Barbara on her death in 2012. The originals are currently stored at the Discovery Museum in our library store. The images have been digitised and are now on our Flickr site.There are about 2300 images and these are listed in the attached index.

Each slide has been given a unique number, the name and any other details included on Barbara's label.The first group of slides were in files and these have been given a simple number. In addition there were 14 boxes of slides, and these are numbered according to the box number and their position within the box. For example, slide 01 005 is in box 1, at position 005 in the box. Where there are several slides together of the same subject they have the same entry.  In addition the date of the slide has been added when stamped by Kodak and also additional information such as "west wall". The slide above, for example is listed as 0010.

Barbara (1931-2012) was a distinguished archaeologist, and a Past President of our Society. You can find a full obituary of her in our Biographical Directory.