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.