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20 Jun 2019

Future/Past: old and new pictorial views of Forfar, Part 1

Written by Class P6L, Langlands Primary School and Ben Reiss, Morton Photography Project Curator
A modern image of an Angus street merged with an old black and white photo of the same cobbled street
Photographs from the Angus Folk Museum and Angus Alive collections taught schoolchildren about their past. Photos © Angus Alive
We worked with Class P6L, Angus Alive and Paul Reid Photography to find out how Forfar has changed by taking modern versions of historical photographs of their town.

The Morton Photography Project has been funded by the Morton Charitable Trust since 2014. The Project supports National Trust for Scotland staff in using and looking after our photographic collections. In 2018–21, the Morton Photography Project will undertake research, publish articles and run engagement projects on these collections Trust-wide, as well as digitising and documenting photographic collections across the National Trust for Scotland. Future/Past has also been generously supported by the Aberbrothock Skea trust.

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