Several partners interested in environmental history and mapping are coming together to start an interactive map to show old mills, sites of pollution, and the culverted becks, etc. Partners include Friends of Bradford’s Becks, Bradford City Council, and 509 Arts’ Lost Mills and Ghost Mansions project.

Content Notes

Usefulness

• Felt seems useful in adding historical perspectives
• What other datasets could we incorporate?
• “You have to honor ‘the wiggle’” - a participant explaining how they identify waterways
• Interest in more sessions of mapping in a group
• 15th May’s work [geolocating photographs workshops] can be combined with today’s to get something useful

Difficulties and Uncertainties

• It can be very difficult to identify waterways!
• “Are we overthinking it?”
• “Where do we stop?”
• [Millponds] are easier to navigate than waterways because of existing labels
• Can make an educated guess on what rectangles are millponds after a while

Feelings

• “I found [a millpond]...I’m getting excited!”
• “Right now I’m in the woods…the birds are singing.”
• “Quite fun doing this…not sure if I’m in the right Bradford quadrant?”
• “Quite fun…going down a rabbit hole…”
• “Very therapeutic.”