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Kelly's Directory (or more formally, the Kelly's, Post Office and Harrod & Co Directory) was a trade directory in England that listed all businesses and tradespeople in a particular city or town, as well as a general directory of postal addresses of local gentry, landowners, charities, and other facilities. In effect, it was a Victorian version of today's Yellow Pages. Many reference libraries still keep their copies of these directories, which are now an important source for historical research. CREDIT:Wikipedia

Before we start, always ask permission of the photo/text owner and add a credit

How do I start?

ONLINE

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/search/pins/?q=lowestoft > then add your street name to the search, maybe in quotes and different variations eg "Old Nelson Street" "Old Nelson Street"

For simplicity we use the same 'add content' wether we are adding a 'Picnic next week' or an important historical event. This can be easily dealt with for the Timeline by simply filtering out all events AFTER year 2000.

The map functionality requires no additional coding to show the user what they wish to see, it simply takes the last part of the web address as a filter. 

eg: /maps/milk will find all places/organisations that sell milk.

It also understands nested taxonomy a simple example would be

FOOD TYPES
_FRUIT
__Strawberries
___scottish strawberries

One challenge we have with documenting the historic high street is that because the street is so narrow most old photos are taken looking up or down the street rather than flat on.  
 

we are using AI (an app called Snapseed) to correct this perspective. We start with the original image, then crop to the individual property. 
 

Most photos have clues you can read. Pictures with cars in then can show that the photo must be AFTER a particular date. For example the photo opposite has a couple of C reg cars in it, so thanks to this site it must be after 1985.

Kim had always been interested in local history and heritage and had passed this interest onto her children. She had often seen photographs from the Victorian era pop up on the local Facebook history page and found her self staring at the architecture in her street and wondering why it was the way it was.

But she was put off by not knowing where to start learning about the history of her street, and then how she would record it and share it.

A key part of the Ten Streets project could be:

Working with archive photo collections to design and put in place systems that embed multiple copyright protection systems that will discourage unauthorised sharing (via social media) and thus give confidence to such collections to share more widely (sometimes for the first time). This could also allow ways to embed further details in each picture (meta data?). This would travel WITH the image even if duplicated, screenshot or printed as hard copy. This would allow users to discover.