I featured Hexham’s Art Deco cinema, The Forum, here.

When we visited the town again in Oct 2024 I spotted a couple more buildings with Art Deco styling.

The old bus station has an Art Deco pediment and lettering:-

The frontage has deco styling too:-

Then there was this shop with a slight Woolworth’s vibe but this may be later than deco:-

Chesters Fort was one of the Roman forts stationed along Hadrian’s Wall. It lies a few miles north of Hexham, on a position commanding a crossing point on the river North Tyne.

It was a posting for a troop of cavalry originally raised in what is now Spain.

As a result the remains of the stables take up a fair bit of the site towards the entrance:

This one was taken from further up the hill, stables to left, Commandant’s House to right.

An interval tower:-

Tower at South-East Angle of fort:-

Hexham War Memorial lies in the grounds of Hexham Abbey. It takes the form of a Cross of Sacrifice:-

Dedications. “Here are inscribed names which bid us by service our debt repay,” with below, “This cross and S Wilfrid’s War Memorial Hospital are dedicated to the glorious memory of the men of Hexham who laid down their lives in the Great Wars 1914-1918 1939-1945.”

Names:-

Royal Northumberland Fusiliers memorial plaque by a memorial garden at Hexham Abbey. Dedicated to those of the 4th Battalion and 8th Battalion, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers who died in the Second World War:-

Hexham Abbey:-

Moot Hall from the Market Square. The Archbishop’s Hall used for administrative purposes in the Middle Ages:-

The Shambles, old Market Square Hexham:-

The Forum. Stepped roof-line, streamlining, rule of three in windows (disappointingly eyes poked out.)

Sadly no longer a cinema.

In July we visited the Northumberland town of Hexham for the first time.

I spotted this statue to Lieutenant Colonel George Elliott Benson, Royal Regiment of Artillery, who died at the Second Boer War Battle of Braakenlagte, 30/10/1901.

Dedication:-