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10-10-2020, 05:39 PM | #1 | |||
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An overdue library book has been returned nearly 60 years late.
It was left in Middlesbrough Central Library's returns box this week but was due back in December, 1962. The copy of Geoffrey Faber's poetry anthology The Buried Stream was still "pristine", Middlesbrough Council said. The fine would have been more than £500 but charges have been suspended during the pandemic and there would be "no questions asked", a council spokesperson said. The identity of the borrower is not known. Librarian David Harrington said they were "really grateful to the anonymous person who returned this book to us as it will be added back to our stock and placed in the Reference Library for future generations to enjoy". He urged anyone else with overdue books to return them while the library was not imposing fines. Around the time Middlesbrough Library was expecting the return of The Buried Stream:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-54492501 Last edited by bitontheslide; 10-10-2020 at 05:39 PM. |
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10-10-2020, 06:02 PM | #2 | |||
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Long time.
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10-10-2020, 06:16 PM | #3 | |||
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The other Shaun :)
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I wonder if the person who returned it happened to have a crazy roommate who was a physicist and enjoyed comic books?
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