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London Road, BASINGSTOKE, RG24 4YP

Bookbench #2 by Jane Callan. Outside the Civic Offices, Basingstoke. This bench gives viewers a peek into a Regency dollhouse that seems to double as a figurative house from one of Austen’s novels. The scene’s two middle panels depict two sisters alone in a bedroom in which the 1870 likeness of Jane Austen hangs, a young woman playing a piano, and a man courting a young woman. One gets the sense of the Bennet and Dashwood sisters in looking at this bench, as well as the class divide in an elite Regency home, as indicated by the final two panels’ illustrations of servants’ spaces. A trail of 24 similar benches was laid out in and around Basingstoke to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen's death.

Bookbench #2 by Jane Callan. Outside the Civic Offices, Basingstoke. This bench gives viewers a peek into a Regency dollhouse that seems to double as a figurative house from one of Austen’s novels. The scene’s two middle panels depict two sisters alone in a bedroom in which the 1870 likeness of Jane Austen hangs, a young woman playing a piano, and a man courting a young woman. One gets the sense of the Bennet and Dashwood sisters in looking at this bench, as well as the class divide in an elite Regency home, as indicated by the final two panels’ illustrations of servants’ spaces. A trail of 24 similar benches was laid out in and around Basingstoke to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen's death.

One of the now familiar cut out soldier figures casts a shadow on the wall near the war memorial.

Bookbench #2 by Jane Callan. Outside the Civic Offices, Basingstoke. This bench gives viewers a peek into a Regency dollhouse that seems to double as a figurative house from one of Austen’s novels. The scene’s two middle panels depict two sisters alone in a bedroom in which the 1870 likeness of Jane Austen hangs, a young woman playing a piano, and a man courting a young woman. One gets the sense of the Bennet and Dashwood sisters in looking at this bench, as well as the class divide in an elite Regency home, as indicated by the final two panels’ illustrations of servants’ spaces. A trail of 24 similar benches was laid out in and around Basingstoke to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen's death.

The offices are in all the various buildings we can see here, around this central open area.

Bookbench #2 by Jane Callan. Outside the Civic Offices, Basingstoke. This bench gives viewers a peek into a Regency dollhouse that seems to double as a figurative house from one of Austen’s novels. The scene’s two middle panels depict two sisters alone in a bedroom in which the 1870 likeness of Jane Austen hangs, a young woman playing a piano, and a man courting a young woman. One gets the sense of the Bennet and Dashwood sisters in looking at this bench, as well as the class divide in an elite Regency home, as indicated by the final two panels’ illustrations of servants’ spaces. A trail of 24 similar benches was laid out in and around Basingstoke to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen's death.

Front of Basingstoke & Deane council offices.

At the corner of London Road and New Road.