No you don't! It is not a very nice place, imho! But it *is* a very good site. Joan. Paul Pettit wrote: > Mike, > > Great and Good luck I hope others catch on like you- I wish my folks came > from Biggleswade! > > Paul Pettit > California > > -----Original Message----- > From: bedford-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:bedford-bounces@rootsweb.com] On > Behalf Of Mike Strange > Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 4:55 AM > To: bedford@rootsweb.com > Subject: [BDF] Biggleswade is on the map for Bedfordshire > > Biggleswade is literally on the map for Bedfordshire with HistoryPin. > > 'We are What We Do' is a social movement that started in 2004 to create > ideas, products > and tools that make it easy for people to make a difference to big social > and environmental > issues. More can be found about them at www.wearewhatwedo.org. > > They devised a new campaign called 'Historypin' that aims to get people from > different > generations to spend more time together. From their surveys it became > obvious that old > photos are a great way of gathering people together and getting them > chatting {the Society > has found that out when our photo albums come out!} > > So, it was decided to create a website where people everywhere could share > their old photos > and the stories behind them. The object is to get people to dig out, scan, > upload and pin > their photos and stories to a map of the world for everyone to see. It was > also thought that > it would be good to compare the old images with how the world looks today > making the site > rather like a digital time machine. So the project asked Google to help as > they had already > photographed most of the world by satellite and from the roads on 'Street > View". > > I was asked if the Biggleswade History Society would like to take part in > the initial phase of > testing the site which I readily agreed to. Prior to the launch event on > 3rd June I had > already loaded up over 50 photographs and a few stories from our > photographic archive. If > you look on the front page of the website http://www.historypin.com you will > see that there > is a picture of Biggleswade between one of Leeds and another of Sydney - > Biggleswade is > now literally on the map! > > See the launch event, that I attended, on www.youtube.com/user/Historypin > > If you would like to take part, or to just look at what Biggleswade looked > like compared to > today, then please do go to http://www.historypin.com > > >