See them in Hitchin

North Hertfordshire Museum on Brand Street, Hitchin, holds collections spanning art, archaeology and local history – and among them the Thomas and Pilkington bequest: twenty-seven oils and more than eighty watercolours, the record of two travelling lives that came to rest at Norton, on the edge of Letchworth.

Where: North Hertfordshire Museum, Brand Street, Hitchin, Hertfordshire SG5 1JE.
When: Tuesday to Saturday, 10.30am–4.30pm; Sunday, 11am–3pm; closed Mondays and bank holidays. Check the museum’s own site before travelling, as hours can change.

Much of the collection has never been photographed. As part of this project the museum is digitising more of it – including Pilkington’s Baalbek watercolours, which are not yet in the museum’s online catalogue. The project is also funding the conservation and reframing of paintings for display. Newly digitised works appear in the museum’s online collections as they are completed, and this site’s gallery and journey map will grow with them.