Graphic
Market day, Retford, c.1905.
Thatched house on Bridgegate, c.1900.
Photographic
“In 2002 the Heritage Lottery Fund awarded a grant of £78,000 to Bassetlaw Museum to enable the purchase and digitisation of 20,000 negatives taken by professional photographers Edgar Welchman and Son of Grove Street, Retford between 1910 and 1960.
The photograph collection contains over 27,000 photographs of the towns and villages of North Nottinghamshire and people who lived there from about 1870 to the present day. 8,000 general photographs from the museum's collections have been added to the Welchman Project images.”
There are photographs of Retford available to view on the following websites:
A collection of photographs assembled by B J Biggs has been deposited with the Local Studies department at the Denman Library in Retford.
Several collections of photographs of Retford have been published:
- E L Ableson, Retford in times past, Retford: Retford and District Historical and Archaeological Society, 1983
- Ron Beare, Retford old and new. A new take on some old views of Retford, Redi-Image.com, 2007
- Ron Beare, Fading Memories of Old and New Retford, Redi-Image.com, 2008
- Malcolm Dobly and Roy Sluman, Views of old Retford, Retford: Retford and District Historical and Archaeological Society, 1990
- Angela Franks and Greg Franks, Retford on old picture postcards, Keyworth: Reflections of a Bygone Age, 1993
- David Ottewell, Old Retford, Catrine, Ayrshire: Stenlake Publishing, 2001
- Peter Tuffrey, Images of England: Retford and the Bassetlaw area, Stroud: Tempus Publishing Ltd, 2003
Artistic
British Library
West Retford House, 1780. Topographical drawings of Retford subjects from the 19th century include:
- Drawing of West Retford church, 19th cent. (Blore Drawings) [Add. 42003 f.34]
- Drawings of West and East Retford churches (1814) by John Buckler [Add. 36372 ff67-71; Add. 36396 f116b; Add. 37121 no. 17] - available to view on the British Library Online Gallery
- Drawing of St Swithun’s church, East Retford by Samuel Hieronymous Grimm (1773) [Additional MS 15544, f.140] - available to view on the British Library Online Gallery
- Drawing of West Retford church by Samuel Hieronymous Grimm (1773) [Additional MS 15544, f.141] - available to view on the British Library Online Gallery
- Drawing of West Retford by Samuel Hieronymous Grimm (1773) [Additional MS 15544, f.142] - available to view on the British Library Online Gallery
- Sketch of view of West Retford by Samuel Hieronymous Grimm (1773) [Additional MS 15544, f.143] - available to view on the British Library Online Gallery
- Drawing of West Retford House, 1780 (although it is incorrectly entitled ‘East Retford Hall’) by T Malton [Ktop XXXIII, 34] - available to view on the British Library Online Gallery
Film & video
Video
A number of videos are available from Retford Local Studies Library, including:
- Retford Bowling Green Limited : original footage
DVD
Discovering Retford, a DVD produced in 2007 by the Retford Civic Society, provides a tour of the town’s heritage. It is available to view online on the Vimeo website.