Glusburn Institute, Glusburn
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Glusburn Institute, Glusburn
Image: © Stephen Richards Taken: 17 May 2013
By F.W. Petty for John Cousen Horsfall who developed a model industrial village here from c1890. Originally the building housed a library, theatre and public baths. Many idiosyncratic features not entirely happily blended together. Grade II listed. Hearteningly, still a community centre.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.899189
Longitude
-1.999659