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Graphic

The Militia returning from the Boer War, 10 May 1901.

Photographic

Newark Museums Service holds about 10,000 images depicting aspects of life in Newark and the surrounding area. A project to catalogue the collection is currently underway.

Over 500 images of Newark are currently (July 2005) available to view on the Picture the Past website:

http://www.picturethepast.org.uk

Several good collections of photographs of Newark have been published:

K W Bee, Newark-on-Trent in times past, Chorley: Countryside Publications, 1985
Tim Warner, Around Newark in old photographs, Stroud: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1991
David Ottewell, Yesterday’s Nottinghamshire Series No. 16: Newark in old picture postcards, Keyworth: Reflections of a Bygone Age, 1991
Tim Warner, Britain in old photographs. Newark, Stroud: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1995
David Ottewell, Images of England. Newark and District, Stroud: Tempus Publishing Ltd, 1999
Clive Hardy, Francis Frith’s Around Newark, Salisbury: Frith, 2000
John West, Memory Lane: Newark and District, Derby: Breedon Books/Newark Advertiser, 2001

Drawing of stage-coach heading up the Great North Road, 1816.

Artistic

Topographical drawings of Newark subjects from the 19^th century can be found at the British Library (BL), including:

Drawings of the castle from the 19^th century [Add. 42001 f. 72, 42003 f. 7, 42007 f. 20, 42021 f. 84, 42046 f. 4-4]
Drawings of the church from the 19^th century [Add. 42023 ff. 50, 51, 42042 f. 61]
Views (1809-1828) [Add. 36372 ff. 24 b-28]

Use the BL’s online catalogue for further details:

http://molcat.bl.uk/

Pictures held at the Castle Museum, Nottingham:

Samuel Buck, West Prospect of Newark Castle
Edward Eyre, Market Place, Newark-on-Trent
Frederick Griggs, Newark Church, south transept; Newark Church from the north; Newark Castle and Bridge; Newark Castle; The Market Place, Newark; Beaumond Cross, Newark.
Thomas Goff Lupton, portrait of W. Tallents after Thomas Barber
T Middiman, View of Newark Castle after W Sherlock
Samuel Noble, Newark castle and Bridger after E Goodwin
Samuel Turner Sparrow, Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire (1786).

Works by local artists, W H Cubley and William Nicholson, depicting Newark in different media are held by Newark Museums Service. Works by Vanessa Bell and Bridget Riley are also represented.

Fine art owned by Newark Town Council can be seen at the Town Hall. Works include a set of views of Newark in the 18th century by Joseph Paul on display in the Picken Room and a drawing of the Market Place by Edward Eyre (c.1776) in the art gallery on the second floor.

The Tate also holds a couple of sketches of Newark by J M Turner:

View of Newark, with the church and castle, from the north west, 1794 [D00360]
Newark Castle seen across the Trent, 1794 [D00700]

Film & video

Video

A number of videos are available from Newark Local Studies Library:

Historic Newark-on-Trent by D E Arundel (1972)
Newark. The silent years, Nottinghamshire County Council Leisure Services Department (1995)
Mayor-making in Newark. A moment in history, Nottinghamshire County Council Leisure Services Department (1995)
Newark Travellers. You don’t have to be on the road to be a traveller — it’s in your blood, Nottinghamshire Living History Archive (2001)
Square wheels: the Newark Traveller’s Video Project, Nottinghamshire County Council (1990)

DVD

Images of the past. Bygone Newark and district (2005) produced by Bygone Films contains a range of short films on Newark subjects: ‘A Market Town’, a wartime film commissioned by the British Council intended to introduce American troops to life in Britain; local pageants and royal visits; a tour of the town in 1972; the railways in Newark etc. [http://www.bygonefilms.com]