Here are all our past exhibitions.
16 May – 12 September 2009
Walsall Museum, Lichfield Street, Walsall, WS1 1TR
A collaborative exhibition with Walsall Museum that celebrates the traditional British seaside holiday. The exhibition contains 40 photographs from the National Monuments Record’s publication Seaside Holidays of the Past, as well as photographs and objects from Walsall Museum’s own collection.
Visit the Walsall Museum website for more information.
St Barbe Museum & Art Gallery (www.stbarbe-museum.org.uk)
17 January 2009 - 14 March 2009
St Barbe Museum & Art Gallery, New Street, Lymington, Hampshire, SO41 9BH
This exhibition, using images from the recent publication ‘Work’ offers a glimpse into the working lives of people from the 1860s to the mid 20th century. Featuring occupations as diverse as ship building, and marmalade making, the exhibition will be enhanced by a complimented display of photographs from the St. Barbe collection to provide a local angle.
3 May - June 2009
Museum of Cannock Chase, Valley Road, Hednesford, Staffs, WS12 1TD
17 January 2009 - 14 March 2009
St Barbe Museum & Art Gallery (www.stbarbe-museum.org.uk) St Barbe Museum & Art Gallery, New Street, Lymington, Hampshire, SO41 9BH
This exhibition, using images from the recent publication 'Leisure', offers a glimpse into the world of leisure from Victorian times up to the mid 20th century showing children and adults taking a break from their working lives to enjoy themselves.
3rd August - 25th October
Guildhall Art Gallery, Guildhall Yard, Off Gresham Street, London, EC2V 5AE
Our centenary celebrations continue with a second exhibition on the outstanding freelance photographer John Gay. Best known for his architectural images and celebrity portraits, he also captured moments in the life of ordinary people. He retained a life-long fascination with London that provided the subject matter for many of his photographs and some of his books including London’s Historic Railway Stations (1972) with Sir John Betjeman and Highgate Cemetery: Victorian Valhalla (1884) with Felix Barker. The exhibition features images from his collection held by the National Monuments Record, the public archive of English Heritage.
1 April – 30 April
Steam Museum, Swindon
29 January – 29 March 2009
Kenwood House, Hampstead
English Heritage presents an exhibition to mark the centenary of Highgate resident John Gay. Between 1936 and 1996 the German emigre took pictures of England's people, building, animals and landscapes. An outstanding freelance photographer, best known for his architectural images and celebrity portraits, he also captured moments in the life of ordinary people.
The exhibition features images from his collection held by the National Monuments Record, the public archive of English Heritage.
Find out more:
www.english-heritage.org.uk/johngay
10th July - 7th September 2009
Fowlmead Country Park, Off A258, Sholden, Nr deal, Kent , CT14 0BF
28th March - 28th June 2009
Cusworth Hall, Museum and Park, Cusworth Lane, Doncaster, DN5 7TU
December 2008
Centre Historique Minier de Lewarde, Fosse Delloye BP39, 59287 Lewarde, France
2 August - 12 October 2008
Cannock Chase Museum, Valley Road, Hednesford, Staffs, WS12 1TD
28 January - 18 May 2008
National Coal Mining Museum for England, Caphouse Colliery, New Road, Overton, Wakefield, WF4 4RH.
Coal formed the backbone of Britain's Industrial Revolution. At the height of the industry's prosperity in 1913 2,600 pits employed 1.1 million men. By nationalisation in 1947 this figure dropped to around 1,000 and in 1992 just 50 pits remained. Now there are only four deep mines left in operation. This collaborative exhibition between the NMR and the National Coal Mining Museum for England offers case studies of coal mines from six English regions showing colleries as working sites and new photographs to show th changes since the industry's demise.
26th May 2007 - 31 August 2008
Sudley House. Mossley Hill Road, Aigbirth, Liverpool, L18 8BX
16th February - 18th May 2007
Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight Village, Wirral, CH62 5EQ
The photographs in this major exhibition from the NMR archives were taken between 1888 and 1916 by the London based firm Bedford Lemere and Co. one of the best architectural photographers of the day. The firm travelled the country taking pictures of the homes of the rich. The wealth of late Victorian and Edwardian Liverpool often brought the firm to Merseyside.
The Liverpool merchants, trading in goods imported through the docks were also ship owners, banker, insurers and lawyers, and manufacturers in food processing and the chemical industry. Their taste in sumptuous furnishings and lavish decorations are opened for all to see at this exhibition showing the privileged homes of Liverpool's business elite before the First World War.
The music room, Holmestead, North Mossley Hill Road, July 1901, BL16685
At this date Holmestead was occupied by the shipowner and art collector William Imrie. Dominating this room is Edward Burne-Jones's painting The Tree of Forgiveness. It was later acquired by W.H. Lever and is now in the Lady Lever Art Gallery. The wallpaper is William Morris's 'Acanthus' pattern, designed in 1875.
Dawpool, Thurstaston, (1896), BL13481/08
Thomas Henry Ismay, chairman of the White Star Line, and his wife Margaret moved into this grand new house overlooking the Dee estuary in 1884. It was designed for them by Richard Norman Shaw, Mr and Mrs Ismay were both closely involved in the design and furnishing of Dawpool. Sadly the house survived less than fifty years: it was demolished in 1927.
7 March 2008 - 27 April 2008
Guildhall Art Gallery, Guildhall Yard, Off Gresham Street, London, EC2V 5AE
Seeing London from the air provides a new perspective on its history and character in more ways than one. This display accompanies a new book on the subject based on a number of remarkable collections of historic aerial view of the city held by the National Monuments Record and the Royal Aeronautical Society. They show the city in the Edwardian era, the early 1930s and the 1940s and 1950s. The historic views have been supplemented by new photographs taken by English Heritage's Aerial Survey team. The exhibition is a celebration of one of the greatest of all world cities, giving insights into its evolution of the last century.
30 June 2007 to April 2008
Grundy Art Gallery, Queen Street, Blackpool, Lancashire.
The seaside is a special place with its own distinctive sounds, smells, tastes and sights. This exhibition highlights the evocative photographs of John Gay who captured Blackpool holiday makers in the summer of 1949. For many of us photographs like these help crystallise our image of seaside holidays of the past.
John Gay was a professional photographer who was renowned for his work in national advertising campaigns, magazines and books. Best known for his architectural photographs these images of Blackpool demonstrate his ability to capture ordinary people at ease on holiday.
Chelmsford Museum 22 December 2007 – 28 February 2008
This exhibition brings together images, facts and figures from six local museums and the County Record Office that hold historic collections about Essex. The National Monuments Record has contributed images to the exhibition which prompts us to look again at some familiar and unfamiliar buildings as a way of making the past more relevant to our daily lives.
