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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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Dysart Park

This is not just a location for random gay sex. No, really. A little known fact: after the worst raid of WW II (Grantham got hammered as the Luftwaffe had realised what Thatcher would become) the open-air swimming pool was used as a temporary mortuary as it was the only place big enough to contain the carnage after they'd set fire to the WHOLE of London Road. I can't believe my mum let me swim in that when I was a kid, knowing what she knew. She only told me the other week. Mothers. I dunno.

Long. -0.63189, Lat. 52.90367 | written on 4th Dec 2005 by sp3ccylad | Email this to a friend | abusive?

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Chris Noon replies: Dysart Park was given to the people of Grantham by the Earle of Dysart. It is a beautiful compact park that has a natural spring running through it that many people years ago used to drink as they thought the spring had healing powers and was good for you. The spring still flows though it into an oranate pon near the newly renovated groundsmans huts. Come and have a look in a great park.

written 11th Jan 2007 | abusive?

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