The sense of age and history in England really came home to me when, as a teenager, the street in front of our house was dug up. Roman and medieval kilns were revealed. King Edward VI High School which I attended also had a long history. The school was founded in 1552. The school's modern buildings dated from 1880, and the contemporary buildings from 1953, one year before I was born.
History is everywhere.
Nuneaton My hometown is Nuneaton in the county of Warwickshire, England. The town's not particularly famous. However, the one claim to fame is that the town was the birthplace of the Victorian novelist, George Eliot, otherwise known as Mary Ann Evans. She was born on the estate of Arbury Hall where her father was employed. So here goes . . .