What do you think of when you think of the National Trust? Men in waistcoats, or ivy-covered listed buildings, or wet weekends in the country with your parents. Crumpets, perhaps. However, it's likely not strippers and drugs and sex shops and all the other neon joys of Soho, London's seediest area.
A new app, Soho Stories, sees the National Trust celebrating the personal and the cultural aspects of Soho. Once the app knows where you are -- and after a genial greeting from Barry Cryer, who explains the app's mecahnics -- it plays audio related to your immediate surroundings. As you walk through the historic, and often sticky, streets of Soho, you'll be regaled with the wonderful tales of who used to work at which shop, or which phone box used to be particularly popular with heroin addicts.
By: Ian Steadman, Edited by: Duncan Geere
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-06/25/soho-stories
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