Dutch influence in Ashby
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Image: © Jonathan Billinger Taken: 27 May 2010
A distinctive house on Ashby High Street opposite the turn for Everest Road. The building is the old Ashby library. It opened as a Library on 16 April 1906 with the help of a Carnegie grant.