Thursday 16 May 2013

Putting Burley on the map - Literally!

One of the less well known aspects of the Burley Champions project has been to create a 'channel' on the international local history website, Historypin.



In partnership with Leodis, which is Leeds City Council's photographic archive, our  volunteers have uploaded an extensive selection of old photographs of old Burley. The Historypin site allows users to 'pin' old photograph to a detailed 'Google' map of the area together with a short description.

The site is open to the general public and enables the project to share information with a global community of people interested in sharing their local 'histories'.

You can browse the Burley Champion's Historypinhttp://www.historypin.com/channels/view/id/16490120/
channel here:

Saturday 11 May 2013

Champion film project - It's official!

The project has been successful in attracting news coverage - witness this recent article in the Yorkshire Evening Post. Reporter Alison Bellamy's write up has done the project proud. We love the catchy headline!