The old library, at the top of Market Place, in around 1962.1

Above the door you can see two empty niches.  These once contained statuettes of a boy and girl in 18th century charity school dress.²

The branch library was replaced in 1965 by the new Central Library,³ and was demolished in 1968.³

¹ Photograph by David Duhig.  Reproduced by kind permission of his son Steven Duhig.
² Victoria History of the County of Essex, volume VII, page 92.
³ Ibid., page 82.

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