Millennium Mills: Feeding Edwardian London -  A Walk Around the Royal Docks

Royal Docks Team

Millennium Mills: Feeding Edwardian London is a walk around the Royal Docks

Feeding Edwardian London will use narrative-story-telling approaches and data visualizations to allow the users to see the long-distance trade that helped feed London’s growing population of 7 million people by 1910.Dr Jim Clifford will provide our walkers with insights on how the Royal Docks were connected in a network of globalization and colonialism that provided the growing supply of wheat flour, cheese, edible oils, and tropical fruits (like bananas) to feed the people living in Greater London during the first decades of the twentieth century. Developed by Heritage 5G, the tour will use augmented reality visualizations to explore the links between the construction of the Millennium Mills and the development of new infrastructure in Canada. We will share recreations of the large grain silos built in the port of Montreal and the grain elevators in Saskatchewan that together combined with the railroads and steamships to transport wheat to the Royal Docks.It will also create opportunities to reflect on how the metropolis continues to rely on global food supply chains in the twenty-first century, decades after the decommissioning of the Royal Docks and Millennium Mills.Our project is about building a "Museum Without Walls" a model where audiences are able to jump back in time using augmented reality from their phones to visualise historical connections and processes that remain relevant even today.Part of the London Festival if Architecture. Supported by the Royal Docks Team.

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