A COLLECTION of ‘snaps’ of Holsworthy and the surrounding area from times past will be brought together for an exhibition during St Peter’s Fair week.

The exhibition, is being staged by Holsworthy Museum and plans to bring together hundreds of photographs of Holsworthy and the surrounding area, dating from the very earliest known images of the town, taken in the 1870s, right up to the present day, with a display of photographs by Holsworthy’s ‘Paparazzi Parrish’.

Shawn Dymond, Holsworthy Museum volunteer and local historian, said: “Hopefully, the exhibition might encourage people to go home and look through their own photos of Holsworthy and bring them into the museum where we can copy them and add them to our archive.

“In today’s ‘digital world’ we tend to take hundreds and hundreds of ‘snaps’ but very few ever get any further than being viewed on the screen.

“It seems strange to think that we probably won’t have as many printed photographs of Holsworthy in the 2020s as we do of the town in the 1920s!”

The exhibition will be open on Wednesday, July 6, St Peter’s Fair day, after the ‘Pretty Maid Ceremony’ until 6pm and then again on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 7, 8 and 9, from 2pm to 6pm.