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| Link above to 'The Independent' (Photo is from the Save Friern Barnet Library web site) |
"Until the age of 11, I used to visit Friern Barnet library on Saturday mornings. The branch (opened in 1934, I now learn) stood a short walk away from my home, and from my first two schools. I hardly need to add that its shelves began my literary education.
"Reading about the closure plan, a stray memory hurtled across the decades, and landed with a flash. ... Tricky things, words. Multiply a thousand times – for me, for you, for millions. Now that ladder of language will be smashed."
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