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Bellingham Iron Works - creative responses
Group: Priory School, Hexham
Heritage expert: Chris Jones, historic environment officer at Northumberland National Park
Artists: Vicky Jones and Marc McKiernan
Visit was on Bellingham on Friday October 11th 2024
A group from Hexham Priory School is building a scale model of Bellingham Ironworks as it was ca. 1830. Once they have built it they will be blue screened into it, acting out real life people from contemporary documents held at Bellingham Heritage Centre. Apparently, there will also be ghost stories...
Building work on the model is suspended until January - meantime, here are some images from the work so far...
Back again, adding colour and finishing models...
The whole model-making process from plan to blue-screen ready...
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