Anderson Library, Woodside
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Anderson Library, Woodside
Image: © Bill Harrison Taken: 20 Apr 2013
Built 1882 to a very distinctive design resembling a church in sort-of Scottish Baronial style and funded by Sir John Anderson, Chief Mechanical Engineer at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich (London): http://www.imeche.org/news/archives/11-06-29/Engineering_Heritage_Award_for_the_Royal_Arsenal.aspx , who was born in Woodside. (He is not to be confused with Sir (Peter) John Anderson, librarian at the University of Aberdeen or Sir John Anderson the colonial administrator, who was born in Aberdeenshire). Now Woodside Public Library.
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Image Location
Latitude
57.170337
Longitude
-2.128803