Photographic Records

As anyone would guess, there are hundreds and hundreds of photographs in the archives. Many large and small albums survive from the earliest days of Fr Patten's life in Walsingham, and fortunately some of them are well captioned. Some albums have been donated by pilgrims, as have many small packets of 'snaps'. These latter are very often completely without identification on the back, which gives them little value archivally. We are always very pleased to accept photographs or copies of them for the archives - but please caption as fully as possible for the sake of posterity.

The backgrounds of all our early photographs are important to us, even if we cannot name the people or even the parishes, so they firmly remain part of our historic archives, and most of the pre-war photographs are now on the website.

As anyone would guess, there are hundreds and hundreds of photographs in the archives. Many large and small albums survive from the earliest days of Fr Patten's life in Walsingham, and fortunately some of them are well captioned. Some albums have been donated by pilgrims, as have many small packets of 'snaps'. These latter are very often completely without identification on the back, which gives them little value archivally. We are always very pleased to accept photographs or copies of them for the archives - but please caption as fully as possible for the sake of posterity. The backgrounds of all our early photographs are important to us, even if we cannot name the people or even the parishes, so they firmly remain part of our historic archives, and most of the pre-war photographs are now on the website.
the main website pages for old pictures of Walsingham are:
Unidentified Early Groups	This was the first photographic page when the website was created. Since then most of the 'unidentified' have become identified and now appear on other appropriate pages. This page will be adjusted in due course to show only those photographs for which we still need help. Thumbnails link to full-screen size.
1927 Photographs	Some early photographs of Walsingham that came to light in 2007. Thumbnails link to full-screen size.
Guardians' Gallery	52 pictures of Guardians: another 30 or so are still to be added.
Fr Patten's Photograph Album 1931	Fr Patten's own photographs of the gradual rise of the Holy House and covering chapel from June to October 1931.
Translation Photographs 1931	The Shrine's archive photographs of Translation day, and others of the time. Thumbnails link to full-screen size.
Fr Patten's Photograph Albums 1938	Fr Patten's own photographs of the building of the Shrine Church, February-November 1937. The second album is not complete, possibly indicating that he took no more photographs rather than that a third album has been lost.
The Pearson Albums 1938	High quality photographs of the completed Shrine Church, the grounds and the village, taken by The Revd K A Pearson, 1938, and given to the Shrine.
Photographs of the day of the opening of the Shrine Church 1938	The Shrine's archive photographs of the day of the opening of the Shrine Church, and others of the time. Thumbnails link to full-screen size.
Fr Patten: 11 and 13 August 1958	photographs taken at his last service and on the day of his funeral
video records	Lists of videos and films relating to Walsingham so far known.