A letter about the ground under a town.
Written by people who spend Saturdays in archives.
No nostalgia · Readers contribute
- Photographs and dating them
- Walking a route that no longer exists
- Old maps against the present
- Archives and how to use them
Key points
The territory
Photographs and dating them
Walking a route that no longer exists
Old maps against the present
Archives and how to use them
In short
In practice
No nostalgia
The past was worse in most measurable respects and we do not pretend otherwise.
Readers contribute
Deeds, letters and family papers sent in become issues of their own.
Photographs dated
We show how an image is placed in time rather than asserting a decade.
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