Historic Environment Scotland collects, creates and cares for millions of photographs, maps, drawings and documents about buildings and landscapes. This national record reveals the ever-changing face of Scotland from prehistory to the present day.
Scotland’s Urban Past (SUP) wants to make the stories of these places even more accessible via the web – and that’s how you can help.
Urban Detectives are members of the public who contribute information, photographs and locations of places in Scotland’s towns and cities to our website.
These contributions become part of Canmore, the nation’s online record of architecture, archaeology and industry.
Anyone can become an Urban Detective by registering on our website.
Once registered, you can:
All contributions are added to the National Record of the Historic Environment under Creative Commons 4.0. This means that copyright remains with the creator and no one can use your contributions for commercial purposes without your permission. Anyone is able to share or adapt the image or information contributed to the archive, but must always give credit to the creator.
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