Former public library, Bromley-by-Bow
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Former public library, Bromley-by-Bow
Image: © Jim Osley Taken: 24 Apr 2015
The A12 Northern Approach Road bisected the community of Bromley-by-Bow: this explains why it is odd to find a public library building on the edge of a major trunk road. Now in office and workspace use, Bromley-by-Bow Public Library was, according to the London 5 (East) volume of the Buildings of England series, built between 1904 and 1906 to the designs of architects Squire, Myers and Petch ... and an anecdote from a guide to the area from 1927 (http://www.mernick.org.uk/thhol/pbc1927%2803%29.html ) - "Near at hand is the Bromley Public Library, a handsome stone edifice conducted on the 'Open Access' system. The Library building contains a small but interesting Museum of local objects and many quaint documents, amongst these the 'Hamlet of Poplar Rate Book for 1806', recording the fact that one of the ratepayers had taken a trip, at His Majesty's expense, to the Australian penal settlement of Botany Bay." A Grade II listed building, described at this http://list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1252435.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.520476
Longitude
-0.009912