Do you know something unusual about a place, building or street? Some odd factoid, rumour or tidbit? Share it here, and if you're lucky someone will follow up with more info on your place.

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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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nans

the place i was born

added 12th Feb 2006 by meurig brooks | read more | 0 responses | abusive?
First Public Montessori School

Faxon Montessori is the first school expressly built to be a public Montessori building. It is part of the Kansas City Missouri School District. Jan 2006

added 28th Jan 2006 by Kim | read more | 0 responses | abusive?
Time Team Tiles

Tyler Hill - the open fields here were the site mediaeval tile kilns, uncovered during the Time Team's 'Big Dig' in Canterbury.

added 24th Jan 2006 by Kim | read more | 0 responses | abusive?
The Secret Passage?

There's a large Georgian house at no7 St Alphege Lane, which is rumoured to have a secret passage to the Cathedral grounds - or the church next door - from the basement

added 24th Jan 2006 by Kim | read more | 0 responses | abusive?
Cliveden House

Scene of the 1960s Profumo scandal featuring Christine Keeler. Now owned by the National Trust the house is leased to a luxury hotel chain.

added 13th Jan 2006 by Phil Emby | read more | 0 responses | abusive?
Where I swallowed a bat

When I was 6 years old I was riding home from a friends place and I was singing and I swallowed a bat.

added 13th Dec 2005 by Daniel Johnson | read more | 1 response | abusive?
well of St Issio

the sacred well of St Issio, Where a celtic saint of around the 11th century (I believe) healed a leper

added 13th Dec 2005 by Daniel Johnson | read more | 0 responses | abusive?
Dysart Park

Loads of dead bodies once.

added 4th Dec 2005 by sp3ccylad | read more | 1 response | abusive?
When New Towns Grow old

Once a upon a time there was a children's playground here on Old Coach Road. I used to play there when I was small. Then, East Kilbride was still a new New Town. It was full of kids. Today, you wont find the swings, slides and spider. They tore it down and tha built some sheltered housing for old people. This is what happens when New Towns grow old.

added 25th Nov 2005 by Nick Jones | read more | 2 responses | abusive?
Chatteris Workhouse

Built in 1789 this two story building was originally a workhouse. It became disused when the one at Doddington was built and was subsequently turned into two houses.

added 22nd Nov 2005 by Louise Hamilton | read more | 2 responses | abusive?
Cottages

There used to be cottages where the lockup garages are behind Shelley House, in London Road.

added 22nd Nov 2005 by Adam Jones | read more | 0 responses | abusive?
Electric Avenue

Electric Avenue, Brixton

added 7th Nov 2005 by joe | read more | 2 responses | abusive?
Minnesota

A list of people, places and things from the Land of 10,000 Lakes

added 2nd Nov 2005 by Tricia | read more | 0 responses | abusive?
Brockwell Park Model Railway

A mini railway from teh 1980's running around the edge of Brockwell Park.

added 31st Oct 2005 by Richard | read more | 2 responses | abusive?
Four Millbank

This is where the BBC Westminster stuff happens.

added 27th Oct 2005 by Alan Connor | read more | 0 responses | abusive?

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