News Update
15.09.2015
8,000 images uploaded online.
15.08.2015
The SHPA receives a photograph album from Nova Scotia, featuring 150 photos of Hedgefield House taken during WWI when it was in use as a soldier's hospital. Taken by nurse and amateur photographer May Fraser, the 100 year old album was donated to the archive by her daughter Heather Watts. This is one of many donations and submissions of images that come in each year to the archive.
11.08.15
The Aviva website features an Andrew Paterson image of its old Inverness office in Academy Street (as Norwich Union) on its archive blog pages.
01.07.2015
The summer issue of The North Magazine tells the story of George MacLennan, brother-in-law of Andrew Paterson, who was killed at Arras in 1917.
13.06.2015
Andrew Chalmers, grandson of Andrew Paterson visits Inverness and the SHPA and donates an original Joseph Gray work and an army recruiting poster designed by Paterson to The Highlanders' Museum at Fort George, following in the footsteps of his mother and uncles, who decades earlier donated two of the three large battle paintings already held by the museum. A few weeks later, a letter by Gray describing the painting is discovered, giving its title as "Loos - Charge of the Highlanders."
01.04.2015
The spring issue of The North Magazine announces the launch of the Lost Inverness website featuring the work of Gordon Lynn.
28.03.2015
Visit to The Highlanders' Museum at Fort George by the daughter of Joseph Gray and her extended family. It was preceded the day before by a visit to the Black Watch Museum in Perth where there was an exhibition of her father's work.
27.03.2015
Sister website launched at www.lostinverness.co.uk featuring SHPA images and the artwork of Gordon Lynn.
10.02.2015
Exhibition "The Art of Joseph Gray" held at the Black Watch Museum in Perth, featuring original sketches by Gray once owned by Andrew Paterson, and now of the Barron Collection. The exhibition runs until 11th May.
13.01.2015
Three negatives of Andrew Paterson portraits of Inverness author Josephine Tey, taken in 1929 just before she became famous, are discovered in the archive.
06.12.2014
The SHPA Facebook page is launched. On a regular basis images from the archive are uploaded with commentary. On the same day the Andrew Paterson Collection Facebook page is launched. Each month sees photographs, artefacts and memorabilia from the archive preserved by Constance Paterson and her son Andrew Chalmers uploaded to the page.
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