Beaney Institute, Museum and Library, High Street, Canterbury
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Beaney Institute, Museum and Library, High Street, Canterbury
Image: © Jo and Steve Turner Taken: 5 Jul 2016
Grade II Listed institute 1897 by A H Campbell. Named after its locally born benefactor, Dr James George Beaney, who died in 1891 in Australia leaving £10k to Canterbury to build an ‘Institute for Working Men’; it opened on 11th September 1899. Closed in 2009 for an £11.5m refurbishment it reopened in 2012 as The Beaney House of Art & Knowledge.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.279535
Longitude
1.079117