Ross is the birthplace of tourism and yet, apart from the natural landscape and the beauty of river, which has appealed to visitors for 250 years, the town itself does not have an ‘attraction’ such as a visitor centre or museum.

However a group of creative residents have come together to create a ‘museum without walls’.

Rather then focusing on a building which contains exhibits, which is extremely costly to run, and which is the main reason why the market House Visitor Centre was closed by Herefordshire Council, CreateROSS are hoping to use the history of various sites around the town to create ‘living’ recreations of scenes from the past.

They are hoping to build a trail of 12 digital attractions over the next three years.

The first one to be unveiled via smart phones is the fountain which used to stand in the centre of the formal gardens in the Prospect.

The project is using Augmented Reality, which is a mix of reality ‘augmented’ by computer-generated perceptual information. It is different from virtual reality which completely replaces the user’s real-world environment with a simulated one.See this week’s paper for more stories like this, available in shops and as a Digital Edition now.