LIBRARY OF THE PEOPLE – Whitechapel Library
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Whitechapel Library – that great library of the East End – finally closed its doors on Saturday 6th August 2005, after more than a century of use. To those who used it down the years it was much more than a simple storehouse of books, as the poem here by Bernard Kops well shows. From [...]
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