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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.

Pont Historian September 2016

Ponteland Historian

Newsletter of Ponteland Local History Society

15^th September 2016

WALLINGTON PAST & PRESENT

This evening we are pleased to welcome Lloyd Langley & David Weissand. 

ANLHS 50^TH ANNIVERSARY 2016

It doesn’t seem possible that 10 years ago we were celebrating the 40^th Anniversary in Stannington Village Hall with presentations by Lindsay Allison-Jones (The Great North Museum) and Peter Carter (St. Oswald’s Way).

This year the celebration is on Saturday 1^st October and will take the form of a subsidised lunch at Kirkharle.  This is to be followed with a presentation by John Anderson to mark the 300^th Anniversary of the birth of Capability Brown.  Booking forms are available this evening for those members who have not already received detail by e-mail.  Closing date for applications is Tuesday 20^th September.

This celebration is however tinged with a degree of sadness as it precedes the proposed closure of the Association at the 50^th AGM on Saturday 5^th November at Stannington Village Hall.

The schedule for the day is as follows:-

10.00 am –Arrival & Coffee

10.30 am – ANLHS 50^TH AGM

Agenda.

1. Apologies for absence

2. Minutes of 49^th AGM -9^TH Nov. 2015

3. Matters arising

4. Reports:

                4.1 Chairman

                4.2 Treasurer

                4.3 Secretary

                4.4 Editor

                4.5 Representative of individual Members.

                4.6 Representatives on External Organisations: British Association for Local History, Community Action Northumberland

                4.7 Representatives of Affiliated Societies.

5. Any other business

6. Formal closure of ANLHS.

Distribution of pre-purchased non-monetary assets.

Presentation by the Northumberland & Newcastle Society.

Discussion time on mutual support (if requested in advance).

SOCIETY CHRISTMAS SOCIAL

Tickets will be on sale from the next meeting Thursday 20^th October.

  

MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY

Following the retirement of Jill Gregory there is a vacancy on the Committee for Membership Secretary.  It is not an onerous task but it is essential to the smooth running of the Society. We are looking for an enthusiastic volunteer to join the Committee.  If you have access to a computer, are familiar with Microsoft Excel, willing to take on the task and would like to join us then please make contact with any Committee Member.  

There are also vacancies for other Committee Members to bring forward new ideas to sustain our continuing growth as a successful Community asset.  Please come forward!

2016 OUTINGS

During the summer we enjoyed 3 very successful “Away Days”. There was a late change to the original programme as we were unable to arrange a proposed visit to the Alnwick Castle Archives.

The first, in May, was an action packed combination of a morning visit to The Lit & Phil, followed by an afternoon tour of the recently refurbished Newcastle Keep & fortified Black Tower Gate House.

  

 It was an exhausting, interesting and enjoyable visit for the 22 Members who made the most of the break for lunch.

     

 

In June Cumbria beckoned and a fine day provided the opportunity for the party of 28 Members to enjoy a morning guided visit by coach to Hutton in the Forest. 

After lunch there the group travelled on to the village of Wreay and a guided tour of St. Mary’s Church, designed by Sarah Losh, who has ancestral connections with Callerton Hall and the Lit. & Phil.

The summer activity was completed with a guided tour of St. Georges Church Jesmond