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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Four Millbank

This is where the BBC Westminster stuff happens.

added 27th Oct 2005 by Alan Connor | read more | 0 responses | abusive?
Farliegh Sidings and Tunnel

This is the entrance to an 2k ammunition shaft that runs all the way up to what was the second biggest ammo dump in Europe in the second world war..

added 26th Oct 2005 by Blamm | read more | 1 response | abusive?
Glenrothes

Glenrothes is a New Town in Fife

added 22nd Oct 2005 by Chris | read more | 4 responses | abusive?
Pinellas County, FL

Pinellas County is a county located in the state of Florida. As of the 2000 census, the population is 921,482, making it the second most densly populated county in the United States, surpassed only by New York County, New York (i.e. Manhattan). Its county seat is Clearwater, Florida6, and its largest city is St. Petersburg. The county is contained entirely within area code (727), except for sections of Oldsmar, which has area code 813. It shares area code 727 with parts of West Pasco County, and Pinellas along with Hillsborough County, Florida comprises the Tampa-St.Pete metro area, often called the Tampa Bay area.

added 19th Oct 2005 by Gevan Peacock Jr. | read more | 1 response | abusive?
William Booth College

This college was opened in 1928 as a memorial to William Booth, founder of The Salvation Army.

added 18th Oct 2005 by Chris | read more | 1 response | abusive?
The Salvation Army - beginnings

William Booth, founder of The Salvation Army, preached outside the Blind Beggar pub here. The Blind Beggar is still there, but has been rebuilt since Booth was around.

added 18th Oct 2005 by Chris | read more | 0 responses | abusive?
German WW1 Fleet

At the end of World War 1, the German Navy fleet was scuttled in Scapa Flow as a series of "block ships" to create a safe harbour for the British Fleet.

added 17th Oct 2005 by Chris | read more | 8 responses | abusive?
Maes Truan

Maes Truan (Welsh for Poor or Wretched Field), nowadays a farm near Llanelidan, Denbighshire, is the site of a skirmish between Owain Glyndwr and Baron de Grey of Ruthin in 1400.

added 14th Oct 2005 by Arwel Parry | read more | 0 responses | abusive?
LCC Tramways Upminster

A green cabinet box with "LCC tramways" sits on Station Approach, Upminster. What was it used for?

added 13th Oct 2005 by S | read more | 10 responses | abusive?
Knebworth House

As well as appearing in Batman and other films, former owner is behind prize for bad literature. Read more...

added 13th Oct 2005 by duncan | read more | 0 responses | abusive?
Minton

The town (actually much smaller then a town) has a common area and a few homes surrounding the common area. It is located southwest of Little Church Stretton and beneath the Long Mynd.

added 13th Oct 2005 by Peter Minton | read more | 1 response | abusive?
Naldertown

This is where Hutchhouse make multimedia for their clients.

added 3rd Oct 2005 by hutch | read more | 1 response | abusive?
Minneapolis' first school house

Site of the first schoolhouse in Minneapolis

added 1st Oct 2005 by Robert Stephens | read more | 68 responses | abusive?
Geek Squad's first office

From 1994-1997, The Geek Squad had it's first offices here at 411 Washington Avenue North.

added 30th Sep 2005 by Robert Stephens | read more | 13 responses | abusive?
Farmhouse

Originally a farmhouse for a dairy farm, the house was incorporated into Carleton College and is today a cooperative interest house for sustainable agriculture and sustainable living.

added 30th Sep 2005 by Lev Rickards | read more | 0 responses | abusive?

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