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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Maggie Thatcher

Maggie Tatcher was born here, over a butcher's shop.

added 30th Sep 2005 by Michael the GR8 | read more | 1 response | abusive?
Birthplace of George Gissing

George Gissing (1857-1903), novelist and man of letters was born here.

added 27th Sep 2005 by Mike Newman | read more | 1 response | abusive?
Paranapiacaba

1867´s english railroad village, located in the brazilian atlantic rain forest. More information at http://www.portaldeparanapiacaba.com.br

added 25th Sep 2005 by Portal de Paranapiacaba | read more | 1 response | abusive?
Minneapolis Charter signed here

Under an oak tree in this backyard, the charter for the city of Minneapolis was signed here. The reason is that this land was Charles Hoag's farm. He named the city of Minneapolis, and out of respect for his contribution, the city's leaders chose this site to sign the city charter here.

added 24th Sep 2005 by Robert Stephens | read more | 0 responses | abusive?
Giant's Causeway

Famous geological site comprising of 40,000, tightly packed (mostly) hexagonal columns, caused by a volcanic eruption 60 million years ago.

added 23rd Sep 2005 by Jon Mitchell | read more | 2 responses | abusive?
Girona wreck site

Site where the Galleas Girona, of the Spanish Armada, went down on October 30th, 1588, killing almost all of it's compliment of 1200 men.

added 23rd Sep 2005 by Jon Mitchell | read more | 1 response | abusive?
Birthplace of William Kent

William Kent wrote many books about the history, geography and notable persons of London.

added 21st Sep 2005 by Mike Newman | read more | 0 responses | abusive?
Coronation Stone

Seven Saxon kings were crowned in Kingston.

added 18th Sep 2005 by Mary Reid | read more | 0 responses | abusive?
Arch 68

A strange tunnel leading from the underpass in Temple Meads railway station, through the undercroft of the station, and into the road beside Bristol and Exeter House.

added 18th Sep 2005 by Mike Newman | read more | 1 response | abusive?
Bristol Harbour Railway

Site of a tunnel which carried the railway from a junction near Temple Meads station to the harbour.

added 18th Sep 2005 by Mike Newman | read more | 2 responses | abusive?
Colebrooke Cottage

Charles and Mary Lamb lived at Colebrooke Cottage, overlooking the New River.

added 18th Sep 2005 by Mike Newman | read more | 0 responses | abusive?
Hook

Enid Blyton started writing when she was living in Hook.

added 18th Sep 2005 by Mary Reid | read more | 0 responses | abusive?
formby lifeboat cafe

Right on the sands stood a large red brick building, former lifeboat station, now a cafe, large and cavernous inside. There were brick ramps for the boats in the sand, and white posts to lean bikes against. There was a .stuffed fox in a case inside . Only one course of bricks remained by the 1990s.

added 18th Sep 2005 by sue steinberg | read more | 0 responses | abusive?
Islington Tunnel

The longest tunnel on the grand union canal, and one of London's less well known 19th century engineering feats.

added 18th Sep 2005 by Tom Steinberg | read more | 1 response | abusive?
WWII

Place of the first flying bomb to land during the war.

added 16th Sep 2005 by tony hadnutt | read more | 0 responses | abusive?

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