Photography Gallery

Visit the Photography Gallery for an exciting and informative investigation of your valuable family photos and artefacts. Located upstairs, the Gallery is an area of the show dedicated to the photos of our past.

This year, the Gallery is sponsored by Love to Learn and you'll be able to take a close look at their step-by-step online guide to photography for beginners. Using this, you'll learn how to scan, edit, enhance and create digital albums of your precious photos and documents. You'll also discover how to archive and share these usable copies with friends and relatives.

Why not let our photography experts examine your photographs and then take them to Love to Learn and learn how to preserve them for posterity?

Find out more at lovetolearn.co.uk/scanning-photos.

Meet Our Experts:

Maureen Taylor, known as the Photo Detective, is an internationally known expert on photo identification. She travels extensively giving presentations on photo identification, preservation and family history.

James Morley is a collector of vintage photographs and is especially interested in the history of photography. He loves solving a mystery, whether it's an unidentified location, an unknown face, the name of a ship or the make of a car or plane. He does much of this online, with the help of people around the world through sites like Flickr and Twitter. He also runs the website www.whatsthatpicture.com whose motto is 'giving old pictures new life.'

Neil Storey is the award winning author of over 30 books on social and military history subjects, is a regular Family Tree magazine feature writer and author of the now essential book 'Family Military Photographs and How to Date Them.' He is currently working on the follow-up volume 'Family Civilian Uniform Photographs and How to Date Them' which will include such organisations as the British Red Cross Society, St John's Ambulance Brigade, Boy Scouts, Guides, Salvation Army, Air Raid Precautions, police and fire units. So if the photograph has a uniform on it - bring it along!

Neil will be joined by Major Graham Bandy, Military Historian and moderator of www.rootschat.com. Neil and Graham will interpret family military photographs - date, identify and learn more about what the badges and insignia worn by your ancestors signify in their historical context.

Molly Housego is a Costume and Textile historian and lecturer and author of 'Women in the Second World War' and 'Women in the First World War' and will interpret your family photographs using costume details.

These services are free but please remember to bring your photos with you!