Waitrose Community Matters: T Geoffrey Willey Photographic Collection

T. Geoffrey Willey Photographic Collection

Ponteland Local History Society (PLHS) has been offered the extensive photographic collection taken by local photographer, the late T Geoffrey Willey. The collection is currently housed in The Ryedale Folk Museum, Hutton-le-Hole, Yorkshire. The museum considers it would be more appropriate for the Ponteland photographs to be held in the PLHS Archive. 

The Ponteland Branch of WAITROSE & PARTNERS have included the History Society in their June "COMMUNITY MATTERS" Programme. Each month the store  allocates £1000 to be shared by local organisations. The amount allocated to each organisation is based upon customers preferences.

Any funding received by the History Society would be used to facilitate the transfer of the photographic collection from Yorkshire to Ponteland and housed in the society archive. Scanning of the collection will make the photographs more available to the community and give the opportunity to hold a retrospective exhibition of Groffrey's work.