How well do you know your home town? I don't mean the few streets that surround your house, I mean the buildings, the history, the stories of the places near to where you live.I thought I knew my local area pretty well. Not perfect but, you know, enough to blag my way through a conversation with any tourist that decided I was a fit and proper person to ask a sensible question (yes, the water in that dock was exported to make the artificial snow at this years Winter Olympics).
I do have a good idea of the history of my home city of Liverpool. Did you know, for example, that the last act of the American Civil War happened in Liverpool Town Hall. The CSS Shenandoah surrendered there a few days after the Confederate collapse.
