Buckminster House
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Buckminster House
Image: © Peter Langsdale Taken: 2 Jan 2003
This was a children's home in 1955 when my sister and I were placed there after my mother contracted tuberculosis. The foreground was at that time a lawn. We children had to pick out all the stones before the lawn was seeded, and I found a George III cartwheel penny dating from 1797.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.892656
Longitude
-0.34038