Residents in Wylam have viewed the village’s ‘hidden spaces’ thanks to sponsorship from the Tyne Valley Community Rail Partnership.
Last Autumn, Wylam Winter Tales, a community based art festival approached TVCRP with an idea to base a photographic exhibition, entitled ‘Hidden Wylam’ on Wylam’s iconic signal box and station building.
‘The signal box sits high above the railway line’ said Mary Bythell from Wylam Winter Tales ‘As villagers, our journeys through the village are punctuated by sitting at the level crossing waiting for trains to pass. We look up at the signal box and wonder what’s happening inside, what the view is like and about the people that occupy it. So the idea for a photographic exhibition which could answer those questions was born’.