A new website is offering people the chance to step back in time and explore the streets of Brecon as they looked in 1985.

The project, created by Dave Forsey, recreates a “virtual walk” of the town using images from the BBC Domesday Project, a pioneering 1980s multimedia archive stored on laserdisc.

The original Domesday Project included a “surrogate walk” of Brecon, featuring around 2,700 photographs taken in October 1985, allowing users to move through parts of the town in a primitive early form of what would now be recognised as Google Street View.

Mr Forsey said he grew up in Brecon and remembers seeing the system at the former Priory School. He has since extracted and reorganised the historic images to create a more accessible online version.

The website, available at https://brecon-domesday.bagpuss.org, allows users to virtually walk through the town centre area originally covered by the project, including streets such as the High Street, Ship Street and Lion Street.

It also includes interactive points where users can explore additional photographs of interiors, buildings and businesses marked within the archive.