Spend a day in the archive finding the story of your own street
“An archive feels like somewhere you need a reason to be. You have one: you live on the street you are about to read.”
The Recipe
- Find the local-history archive, usually kept inside the central library, and check its opening hours the night before.
- Get there when it opens with your own address written down and nothing else planned.
- Ask the desk how to find your street, and let them show you the catalogue rather than guessing.
- Order the oldest map that shows your street and find your own building on it.
- Read forward in time through directories and photographs until you know who was there before you.
- Copy down one thing you could never have learned from the outside.
- Walk home the long way and stand in front of your building reading it differently.
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