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Mr Passmore Edwards - Victorian Philanthropist and Builder of Libraries
I live in Passmore Edwards House which is a sheltered housing scheme near Bounds Green Station. It's a strange name...bit of a mouthful. Yet quite elegant. (the name - and the building)
Today my daughter sent me an e-mail with an attachment which explains that Mr Passmore Edwards was a Victorian philanthropist who helped to construct a number of libraries. Today libraries are under threat - so it's good to remember people like Passmore!
Here's the link to the article with great photographs. The website is called Spitalfields Life and is a wonderful read.
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Comment by Dean Evans on February 12, 2013 at 15:28 -
The Whitechapel library certainly had the biggest collection of books in Hebrew than any other public lending library, but the 1000 books that Edwards gave would have been from his standard list. Some novels but mainly non fiction.
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