Hayle Churks App Hayle Oral History Project

Overall Info

The ‘Hayle Churks’ iPhone app is a location-based audio walk around the coastal post-industrial town of Hayle on St. Ives Bay, Cornwall. The app automatically triggers location-specific memories adding another layer of experience to the landscape and offering an insight into those who lived there by walking where they walked, seeing Hayle through their eyes & hearing stories spoken in their words and accents. It is a walk through stories rather than a guided tour so be prepared to piece together the evidence you are given – stories, information on screen & archive photos plus clues in the physical landscape.
The app starts & finishes by the gate of Hayle Heritage Centre, Foundry Square, TR27 4HH. You will need to download the app over WiFi at home before you come, in the Heritage Centre or in the Salt Bar next door or another Hayle cafe. Please wear headphones. The app has been made to walk around with in Hayle but you can also access it on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch at home.

Lucy Frears created the Hayle Churks app using Hayle Oral History Project recorded memories and newly recorded interviews. The app was created using Calvium’s AppFurnace app-making toolkit and partly funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund's All Our Stories grant in collaboration with Falmouth University’s Academy of Innovation & Research (AIR) and as part of European Social Funded practice based doctoral research. Many archives have been used in the research and to provide images, in particular, the Hayle Community Archive.