What is Know Your Place? Introducing Know Your Place – what is it? Know Your Place is a public website Bringing digitised historic maps together into a single online portal where users can explore a geographic area and how it has evolved over time and add information about ‘their place’, mapping local heritage. JOURNEY SO FAR Know Your Place – Bristol Established in 2011 to map the city of Bristol, the website holds different chronological map layers and aerial photography from the 18th century to modern day, and has run a series of ‘spin off’ community engagement projects which have used KYP as a platform for their work, and has populated the website with thousands of user entries.

Know Your Place – West of England project – its headed your way! In 2014, a pilot project ran in South Gloucestershire to explore the feasibility of expanding Know Your Place to cover a wider geographical area. The pilot’s success and the enthusiastic reception by a number of county organisations across the West led to a funding award from the Heritage Lottery Fund for KYP West of England for an ambitious project running to March 2017, to extend the Know Your Place website holding all the historic digital maps across the counties of Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Somerset, and the former Avon area. Know Your Place – West of England project will provide unprecedented online access to maps of the historic landscape of the region, to which users will be able to contribute information – building a rich and diverse community map of local heritage for everyone.

Our Partners Avon Industrial Buildings Trust Bath Record Office Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society  Bristol and Avon Family History Society Bristol City Council Bristol Industrial Archaeological Society The British Library Friends of Gloucestershire Archives Gloucester City Council Heritage Schools, Historic England Gloucestershire Archives The National Library Scotland North Somerset Council Somerset Heritage Service South Gloucestershire Council South Gloucestershire Mines Research Group South West Museums Development Partnership Thornbury Museum Wiltshire Council Yate Heritage Centre And more… Our Partners A project of this scope involves a wide variety of partners from a range of different organisations, backgrounds and interests in the project. We are partnering with: National libraries – BL and NLS Regional archives in Somerset, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire Local Community groups and specialist interest groups Museums and heritage organisations sharing their collections on KYP Our partners are contributing £27k match-funding, £85k in-kind contributions, and £98k volunteer time. Opportunity: This partnership allows Know Your Place to rapidly expand in size, bringing in expertise and local knowledge across an enormous geographical area and building a strong and mutually beneficial working relationship, that could lead to new networks and collaborations.

Know Your Place in a nutshell Digital mapping heritage project running to March 2017 Will cover West of England (B&NES, Somerset, Bristol, Gloucestershire, N.Somerset, Somerset, S.Glos and Wiltshire) Layers of historic maps show how area changes over time Mapped information from the Historic Environment Record Free digital platform for heritage collections including photos, film, oral history, artefacts, archival documents Invites public users to add their own community heritage Introducing Know Your Place – what is it? Know Your Place is a public website Bringing digitised historic maps together into a single online portal where users can explore a geographic area and how it has evolved over time and add information about ‘their place’, mapping local heritage. JOURNEY SO FAR Know Your Place – Bristol Established in 2011 to map the city of Bristol, the website holds different chronological map layers and aerial photography from the 18th century to modern day, and has run a series of ‘spin off’ community engagement projects which have used KYP as a platform for their work, and has populated the website with thousands of user entries.

How KYP will work in your area Mapping the Region Showcasing local collections Making heritage data for the West of England available to a worldwide audience Supporting Community Projects

Mapping the region How will it work in your area? South Gloucestershire is the first county area of expansion onto the Know Your Place website, with Wiltshire & Gloucestershire appearing by the summer & Somerset (inc. N.Som & B&NES) in the autumn. The website will include: Historic Ordinance Survey maps from the 1880s, 1900s and interwar period; Tithe maps from the 1840s. For the first time, these maps will be digitised and stitched together to provide a seamless ‘layer’ of coverage of the area that you can navigate around, zoom into and search within. The website allows you to compare several different ‘layers’ of maps simultaneously, giving a ‘before & after’ picture of how the area has developed over time.

Showcasing local collections #2 Showcasing Local Heritage in your collections The second phase of the project is to begin adding user-generated content onto Know Your Place, and develop touring exhibition materials and a web portal for the map. This first beneficiaries of this will be professional partners in the region’s museums, galleries, archives, libraries and planning departments, who will be able to use Know Your Place as a digital platform for their collections and data. Know Your Place offers a platform to represent the: Historic Environment Record / archaeological collections Heritage projects you may be running Local collections Themed information e.g. relating to WW1 Multimedia – images, audio, film. Oral History. Signposting website users to the rich collections held in your museums, and the heritage services provided here. A view of the Cathedral from Great George Street by H.W.Twiggs. The Cathedral is complete with its twin-towered west front, finished in 1888. A gable of the old Deanery can be seen at the lower right-hand side of the photo; this was demolished in 1900 to make way for the new Central Library. The house with three gables in the lower part of the picture, facing the tall trees of College Green, was once the home of Robert Southey, Poet Laureate from 1813 to 1843. Like all the other buildings in the foreground of this photograph it was demolished in the mid-1930s for the building of the Council House. The chimney just to the right of the Cathedral was part of Rowe¿s Leadworks on Anchor Lane. It survives today close to the At-Bristol science centre, though what remains of the leadworks is now a restaurant. In the distance to the left of the Cathedral can be seen the spire of St Mary Redcliffe Church, and to the left of that is a huge glass cone, one of the last remnants of Bristol¿s glass industry. The bottom part of this cone can still be seen on Prewett Street; like the leadworks mentioned above, it is now a restaurant.

Supporting Community Research #3 Community Contributions Once the website is up and running, we will be inviting the public to add heritage information of their own, to help map the community value of heritage in the area. These will include: Research by Community groups & schools Individual research e.g. family history, mapping your home and area, local interest groups KYP will be a free resource accessible anywhere with internet connection – from public wifi in museums, to personal smartphones. Opportunity: For a wealth of community knowledge about your local heritage to be shared on a public platform, used by professionals and individuals alike. Yate Library – 1880s ordinance when the area was farmland.

Exploring Know Your Place Go to Know Your Place South Gloucestershire here. Demonstration of Basemaps Info Layer Search ‘library’ to pull up two public art records

Checklist for adding records Does it have a geographical association that can be mapped? Do you hold the copyright, or do you have the copyright holder’s permission? Are you prepared to publish an image of it? Is it the best example to showcase your local heritage? Geographical association: e.g. watercolour of a specific landscape, historic photograph street view, architectural detail from a known building, personal possession linked to home or workplace Remember to: Decide your acceptable risk for displaying ‘orphan works’ where copyright is uncertain

Supporting resources Handouts: Project Postcard Planning: Information for museums, libraries, archives Organisational Support to plan your project Training workshops for staff & volunteers Volunteers: Help finding people to work on your project Online: www.kypwest.org.uk user instructions Top Tips and helpful blog articles Follow project news & developments

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