BBC Turn Back Time

Discussion 17 posts |  Only members can post. Join?

About BBC Turn Back Time

This Flickr group is about celebrating how the British high street has changed from Victorian times right through to the modern day.

We’re looking for your ‘photos in photos’ showing how your local high street has changed – whether it’s in the last year or over the last 100 years. So dig out your old family photos – or go along to your local library photo archive – and get involved.

We just ask that you make sure that you have the permission to use the original photo. Please read our Group Rules for full details.

Please tag your photos according to the location, so that we can start to build up a picture of how the high street has changed right across the UK. If you geotag them we’ll also be able to build up a Turn Back Time map.

About Turn Back Time on TV:

Turn Back Time – The High Street is a new six part series on BBC One. A parade of empty shops and a group of shop keeping families will be transported back to the birth of the high street in the 1870s, before being propelled through a century of dizzying change, right up to the modern era and the 1970s.
The families' lives are turned upside down as they get to grips with how shopkeepers lived and worked in six key eras of British history. Overseen by a Chamber of Commerce which enforces historically accurate rules and regulations, the families have to deal with whatever history throws at them.
Turn Back Time – The High Street is part of the BBC Hands on History campaign. If you’d like to find events and days out near where you live or download family activities, visit the Hands on History website.

Other High Street History Groups:

Here are some other Flickr groups that you might like (please let us know if you’d like to suggest others):

Looking into the Past
Past and Present
Ghost Signs

There is also a high street history project on History Pin - collecting images and stories of high streets through the ages. Find out more on www.historypin.com.

You might also be interested in the BBC's Scotland's Landscape rephotography project, which uses archive photos alongside recent shots, to compare the changing landscape of Scotland.


For more information about BBC Turn Back Time or Hands on History, go to:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/handsonhistory