The street you walk to school on has seen parades, protests, floods and first dates. You’re just its newest chapter.

Ordinary places have long records, but the record is not written anywhere you would think to look. The same stretch of pavement has held celebrations, arguments, water up to the doorsteps and people falling in love. You are the current occupant of something with a history, not the first person to find it dull.

Find out what your street or town was like fifty years ago, at the library or by asking somebody old enough to remember. Then walk it once this week knowing one thing that happened there.