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"Hello, and welcome to YourHistoryHere, the place where you can share your knowledge about those unusual places, buildings or things that make places interesting to live. This site is on limited circulation at the moment, and is only supposed to be a mySociety demo, not a big posh project like PledgeBank. It may not be obvious, but the most important feature of YourHistoryHere is the construction of an underlying system for collecting and sharing geographic annotations in an open syndicated format, so you can use the yummy local data people leave for your own purposes. We're building two sites that show how this can be useful, this one and Placeopedia.com, and we'd love to share the code for other ideas. Anyone want to build WhereIHadMyFirstKiss.com? Tom Steinberg, mySociety Director - 23/08/2005"

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Chatteris Workhouse

Roughly 30 years ago the Kent Bros took it on, gutted the building, put back the doorway in the middle front, re-placed the windows and turned it into four flats. Each end on the ground floor has a huge inglenook fireplace, which I think are as they were originally.

The building is also haunted. One of the most seen ghosts is the woman who lived here when it was a house around 40 years ago. Her name was Miss Amps. She's a very small figure, wearing an apron/overall and appears when the resident is having problems, almost like she's worried about us, or is wanting to help. We also have a male ghost, who may be the man we believe was Miss Amps brother. He wears a flat cap and has been seen in the livingroom.

Long. 0.04618, Lat. 52.46098 | written on 22nd Nov 2005 by Louise Hamilton | Email this to a friend | abusive?

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Linda Shepherd replies: Hi Louise,

This house is a beautiful house I live in this apartment. It has given shelter to many over the years and I like to read about its history. I hope it goes on giving good things to people in need of it...Linda

written 2nd Dec 2007 | abusive?

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