Portfolio
Digitisation Projects
Sudan Archive
The Sudan collection is a pre-eminent collection with international designation status consisting of approximately 55,000 photographic images, of which 32,600 are available via a database. Further details...
The Bentley Beetham Collection
A one year HLF funded project to digitise and present online the legacy of the North East's very own Bentley Beetham. The collection includes images, maps, strategy papers and newspaper clippings from and about the 1924 Everest expedition as well as images from Barnard Castle and Teesdale in the early 20th Century. Further details...
Web Projects
The Bentley Beetham Collection
Bentley Beetham, a schoolmaster at Barnard Castle School, highly-regarded natural history photographer and avid rock climber was selected, along with a handful of others that included George Mallory and Andrew Irvine, to join the ill fated British expedition in 1924 to scale Mount Everest. Mallory and Irvine lost their lives on Everest that year and to this day it is unsure as to whether they made the summit or not. The question of 'did they, or did they not?' is the biggest mystery yet to be solved in mountaineering history!
The Bentley Beetham Collection website (http://www.bentleybeetham.org) gives access to a large collection of images, maps, strategy papers and newspaper clippings from and about the 1924 expedition. The collection paints a portrait of Tibet shortly after the turn of the century, a fateful moment in history, as well as life in Barnard Castle, the surrounding area of Teesdale and Bentley Beetham's mountaineering exploits in the Alps, Tatra and Atlas mountains.
The website is the end product of a year-long HLF funded project and long-term partnership between The Bentley Beetham Trust and Palace Green Library, Durham University. M G H Consultants (http://www.mghconsultants.com) secured the contract after completing the MLA North East's pioneering Supplier Training Scheme.
Stephenson's Works
The online doorway to Robert Stephenson & Co. orginal office and boiler plate shop in Newcastle upon Tyne, the site provides useful background historical information for people intending to visit the site as well as opening times and an online shop.
The Robert Stephenson Trust administer this gem of a heritage asset in Newcastle.
M G H Consultants were contracted as Operations Manager for the works to include upgrading exhibitions, marketing the site which is in a 'backwater' area of Newcastle and increase the profile of the Trust within the cultural sector.
Sitelines - Tyne and Wear Historic Environment Record
Sitelines is Tyne & Wear's online access to the Historic Environment Record (HER). Historic Environment Records are kept by local authorities and record and map important archaeological data including finds, Listed Buildings, Scheduled Ancient Monuments and sites of known archaeological interest. These databases build up a picture of the exisiting visible and non-visible history and heritage of an area and used extensively for planning application consultations as well as local history research.
M G H Consultants Director, in his ro0le with Newcastle City Council devised and managed the redevelopment of the Sitelines website in conjunction with Newcastle City Council's web development team to ensure the site was easy to navigate and easy to extract information from.
Tyne and Wear Heritage Open Days
Acting as an advisor to Tyne and Wear Heritage Open Days Steering Group, M G H Consultants has spearheaded the project development of and project delivery of the event marketing and weekend planning website www.twhods.org.uk for Tyne and Wear Heritage Open Days since 2002.
Every year the 4 day event, held over the 2nd weekend in September across Europe as part of a Council for Europe initiative, celebrates the regions heritage and culture. Since 2003, when the first event website for Tyne and Wear was developed it has gone from strength to strength. The event now pulls in 10s of 1000s of visitors across the region and the website plays a big part in delivering and diseminating the nearly 200 event listings, opening times, booking procedures etc.
Virtual Tours
Graingertown Virtual Walking Tour
This interpretative walking tour of Newcastle upon Tyne's award winning regenerated Grainger Town takes in the main sights of the area and allows access to the history of the area through text and images. The rotating 360 degree views allow visitors at home and abroad to immerse themselves in some of the finest architecture and culture that Newcastle has to offer.
Ford Green Hall & Etruria Industrial Museum (Stoke Museums Service) 
Stoke Museums Service approached M G H Consultants to provide a solution to some of their sites accessibility issues. Because of the layout of the sites and their status as Listed buildings or Scheduled Monuments it was impossible for some visitors to gain access and experience the heritage first hand.
A virtual tour of Etruria Industrial Museum and Ford Green Hall was created with interactive text, image and video and installed on site in the accessible visitor centres thereby allowing people to gain an idea of what the sites were about and immerse themselves within the structures.
Naming the Money, an Exhibition by Lubaina Himid at the Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
An exciting installation by reknowned artist Lubaina Himid hosted by the Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University. We were asked to curate a version of the exhibition for online audiences.
What evolved was a virtual tour of the exhibition, allowing you to walk through the installation, hearing the sounds of the figures that were playing in the gallery and entering the into a dialogue with them by reading their migration information and listening to their voices, "My name is Akambe"...
Interpretation & Exhibition Display
- Restoration of 20 South Street (Stephenson's Works)
- McDowell Trust Collection
- Eldon Square
