Central Library
Victorian public library with a restored reading room, glass-domed atrium and a riddle set in its pavement.
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This guide to Central Library in Liverpool starts outside, on the granite walkway leading from William Brown Street to the doors, and with the public call in twenty eleven that decided whose favourite books ended up underfoot. It follows the library's reopening in May twenty thirteen and a competition built into the stone itself. Stand at the street end of the walkway and look down before you go in.
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