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It was great to see the Skell Valley Voices exhibition including oral histories collected by the project along with archives from West Yorkshire Archives displayed at Fountains Abbey Mill.
The exhibition considers farming, working in the Skell valley, childhood days and the changes that residents have experienced in the weather, landscape and nature around them. Volunteers recorded sixteen oral history interviews forming the basis for the exhibition. These are presented alongside beautiful portrait photographs taken by Joanne Coates and archives from West Yorkshire Archive Service.
I really enjoyed the interactive 3D map which uses a "projection augmented relief model" by the University of Nottingham which also included maps from North Yorkshire County Record Office. This is a highly detailed 3D-printed model of a landscape created from digital terrain data (often captured using airborne laser scanning). The model is usually presented as a flat tabletop, with a projector above. Maps, images and other animations are then projected directly onto the model to demonstrate different scenarios. The images are generated within a Geographical Information System (GIS) then warped to fit the model perfectly when projected.
This makes it a much more engaging and interactive way of exploring and visualising different scenarios, like flooding forecasts, or linking photographs to landscape. There's an example in the video below of projection augmented relief model from elsewhere in North Yorkshire.
The exhibition is part of the ongoing Skell Valley project, led by the National Trust and Nidderdale National Landscape. The valley and its unique cultural and natural heritage are under threat from extreme flooding caused by climate change. High levels of silt are threatening its ecology, and flooding has caused irreparable damage to the World Heritage Site of Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal.
The exhibition runs Sat 21 Sept - Sun 3 Nov 2024.
Video published by the JBA Trust under a CC BY 4.0 licence
