Video: Street Museum in the iPhone app
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Do you know what your street looked like ten years ago, twenty years ago, a hundred years ago? The Museum of London lets the people of the city know this. And a group of enthusiastic Flickr users, thanks to this museum initiative, have created a series of collages of the past and present of London's streets.
It all started when the Museum of London decided to open its archives of old photographs of the city to users of a special application for the iPhone. One has only to indicate a place in the city on the map (the GPS transmitter helps to determine it), and historical photographs of this place will be loaded into the phone.
The members of the Looking into the Past group on Flickr immediately took advantage of this. They created a series of collages that combined historical photographs of London with modern ones, and it turns out that little has changed in many places in London. All the same pavement as the same buildings. But the people are different. And the story is different.
On these collages, we can see both quite ordinary moments from the life of London, and very significant for its history. Here is a house collapsing after the German bombing, and around there are modern buildings made of glass and concrete. Here is a boy riding a bicycle on a street filled with water during a flood.
It is always interesting to see how life went on the street you walk on every day, a hundred years ago, and how much it has changed compared to the present day. Not much, it turns out.
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