Looking back at Hadrian's Wall over the years

The anniversary will be celebrated throughout the year, by various events taking place across the region.

RE-ENACT: (L-R) Lisa Marie Turner and Lorie Ann Hambly, Roman women camp followers involved in the English Heritage event. Image: Stuart Walker

In the past, it has been protected and celebrated for what it adds to Northumberland and the visitors it draws in from around the world.

Volunteers worked to protect Hadrian's Wall in 2020 through the National Lottery funded WallCAP project, launched in 2019.

The three year project trained people in specialist skills, such as digital surveying and terrestrial laser scanning, as well as conservation and geological work.

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In 2016, more than 100 legionnaires from across Europe set up camp near Birdoswald Roman Fort.

The English Heritage event gave visitors an opportunity to see how Romans lived at Hadrian's Wall, and saw Roman women camp followers take part in the event. The event was part of Hadrian's Wall Live, a series of Roman events across Hadrian's Wall.

In 2015, as part of Hadrian's Wall Live, approximately 130 Roman re-enactors from across Italy fought in hand to hand combat with the Celts and Barbarians at Birdoswald Roman Fort.

COMBAT: In 2015, an English Heritage event saw Roman re-enactors engage in hand to hand combat with Celts and Barbarians. Image: Stuart Walker

Also in 2015, 50 days before the start of the Rugby World Cup, the Webb Ellis Cup was placed on Hadrian's Wall, while the Ermine Street Guard Roman Re-enactment Society carried the flags of 20 participating nations.

BBC Music Day Hadrian's Wall of Sound was an ambitious musical relay spanning 73 miles in 2015.

Beginning in West Cumbria, it concluded in Wallsend 14 hours later. Musicians travelled the wall passing a baton shaped like a musical note, using transport including a vintage bus, motorbikes and tractors.

In 2007, celebrity chef and restaurant owner Terry Miller officially opened the Hadrian's Wall Country Trade Fair at Wentworth Leisure Centre, which saw traders from across the region attend to sell their wares.

COMPETITION: The Ermine Street Guard Roman Reenactment Society fly the flags of 20 nations participating in the Rugby World Cup in 2015. Image: Hannah McKay

Britain's one and only 'Scooter Formation Team', the Red Wheelies, completed a gruelling journey along the full stretch of Hadrian's Wall, travelling more than 84 miles in less than two weeks, all while on Quingo Sport mobility scooters.

In April 1976, members of Gilsland WI, originally established in 1923, walked on Hadrian's Wall.

MUSIC: BBC Music Day Hadrian's Wall of Sound took place in 2015 and saw musicians travel the wall to pass the baton. Image: Mark Waugh

CHEF: Celebrity chef Terry Miller, officially opening the Hadrian’s Wall Country Trade Fair at Wentworth Leisure Centre, with ‘Marcus Aufidius Maximus’, Steve Richardson. Image: Stuart Outterside

WHEELIE: The Scooter Formation Team completed the length of Hadrian's Wall on mobility scooters. Image: Hexham Courant

WALK: Members of Gilsland WI at Hadrian's Wall. Image: The Cumberland News Photographic

EVENT: For BBC's Hadrian's Wall of Sound, Core Music's Hexham performs at Chesters Roman Fort. Image: Tony Iley

FESTIVAL: The Hexham Book Festival Mansio at Arbeia Roman Fort, just one of the locations it 'visited' on Hadrian's Wall in 2016. Image: Simon Veit-Wilson