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To Durham City at the weekend - best known for having the finest cathedral in Britain:

 

 

This building is less well known, although no doubt the fans of Indian cuisine think it is a great place, but if you look carefully between the windows of the first floor, you will see the 'torch of learning' that was, if my memory serves me right, the one time symbol of the county library movement. And it just happens to be where I started my career, as a rather nervous 16-year-old just out of school:

 

 

The new library (the second since then) is down at the bottom of the street and is known as the Clayport Library:

 

 

Somehow, they've never managed to achieve the same architectural standard since the cathedral was built :-)