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Rh are lined with glazed tiles. The cost of the building and furniture was £41,000.

The central library at Camberwell was opened in 1893. The whole of the public rooms are on the ground floor, and the entrance is centrally placed, a

corridor 10 feet wide and 100 feet in length splitting the building into two equal portions (Fig. 91).

On the right hand side of the corridor is the lending department, a room 55 feet by 30 feet, and shelved for about 22,000 volumes. On the left, facing it, is the news-room, of the same size, with