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 fantastic resource includes experts who can help you:

- Date your photographs
- Enhance any old photographs you have which are in a poor condition by scanning and using digital technology to improve them.
- Record your family and findings for posterity
- Transfer old videos into digital format
- Date and identify your family heirlooms with an entertaining visit to Eric Knowles.

Remember to bring your photos and heirlooms with you in order to benefit from these services.

This year, we'll have even more experts at the show:

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

Neil Storey is a historian, lecturer and author of over thirty books on social and military history. Having written for Family Tree Magazine, Neil has also had a book published entitled 'Family Military Photographs and How to Date Them.' Neil will be joined by Military Historian Major Graham Bandy and they will help you interpret any military photographs; to help you date, identify and learn more about the badges and insignia worn by your ancestors.

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.

You can buy your tickets for the show by clicking here.