Turn Back Time - upload your old photos for ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ project
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| 08:34 UK time, Monday, 8 November 2010
Then and now views of Hope Street, Wrexham
A new ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ history project shows how our towns have changed over the years, with an exhibition in Wrexham and opportunities to take part.
The project, , uses photo sharing website to host old photos of high street shops with present-day photos of the same scenes.
People are being asked to dig out old albums to find photographs which depict the shopping areas of villages and towns. They can then take a picture of the same scene today - and compare.
There are already some fine examples. Photographer shows how Wrexham town centre has changed in less than a decade.
And webmaster Peter, who runs Flint local history website, , has uploaded some films showing - before the tower blocks - via .
The photo project is one way people can contribute to Turn Back Time, a new ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ TV living-history series that transports four empty shops and a group of contemporary shop-keeping families back to the High Street's heyday in the 1870s.
Co-Op Stores, Main Street, Buckley, Flintshire, c1910, courtesy Buckley Library
Plus, there are a range of activities involving local history societies and museums, libraries and archives taking place across the UK.
, the Welsh Assembly Government's historic environment service, and the will be exhibiting at .
A photo exhibition showing old Wrexham scenes starts on Thursday.
Meanwhile, Cadw staff will be asking people's views about their high street - good and bad - to help improve public understanding of what gives a particular high street its character [26-27 November, 11am-4pm].
Wrexham - looking up Hope Street, c1960s, before the town centre was pedestrianised
If you've got some old photos to share, add them to the Flickr group, , or use the form [below] to tell us more.
