The Old Stourbridge Public Library
May 9th 2023 Living in Vietnam, far away from my native England, there are certain things I miss about English life: friends, pubs, birds, art galleries, cathedrals, live jazz, secondhand bookshops and public libraries. Here, in Ho Chi Minh City, there is no public library on a par with the great public libraries of England. Growing up in Reading, in the 1950s and 1960s, I had three libraries to choose from: t
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