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London photo of the day: the library is closed

Thu Jun 20 2013, 01:12am | 2 comments

I don’t know what a “patients library” is, but I’m sad that it’s closed. (In Fitzrovia.)

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Matthew Kilburn

Presumably a library to be used by patients of the Middlesex Hospital, where they could sit and read newspapers and books. A civilized institution left over from the voluntary era, perhaps.
bronxbee

and it looks like another old building with character is about to be destroyed by the “march of progress” as exemplified by the background.

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