Former Mechanics Institute, 15 South Market Place, Alford
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Former Mechanics Institute, 15 South Market Place, Alford
Image: © Jo and Steve Turner Taken: 15 Sep 2019
The former Mechanics Institute in the South Market Place was built in 1854. It is now a solicitor's office. There was lecture room together with a reference library containing “many very valuable standard works” and a circulating library, which contained many “scientific and useful books”. It was built on a site given by the Hon. R. A. Christopher-Nisbet-Hamilton, on lease, at a nominal rent, for 999 years and the fund for the erection of the building was raised by shares of £5 each. It was reported in 2002 that the building was the last to benefit from the Alford Townscape Heritage Initiative to improve town centre properties.
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Image Location
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53.260421
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0.179993