Somebody sent me a link to a new site which is like an online Robert Elms phone-in, YourHistoryHere. You know the kind of "What's that strange hexhagonal building on Amwell Street?" sort of thing. Then people post their comments. The Islington section is looking a bit bare at the moment. I've stuck on something on Penton Mound:
http://www.yourhistoryhere.com/comments?176
What I like about this kind of 'local history' is that it places as much importance of local mythology as empirical fact.
2 comments:
I don't know - what IS that hexagonal building on Amwell street?
Tom from YourHistoryHere (living just down from Barnard park)
The stump of an old windmill used to pump water to the reservoir on Claremont Sq. - apparently.
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