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www.surreycc.gov.uk Surrey County Council is the county council for the non-metropolitan county of Surrey , England . The council is composed of 81 elected councillors, and in all but one election since 1974 the Conservative Party has held the majority. [ 5 ]
The library was designed by Hugh Lea, Borough Architect for Croydon Council in 1966 [9] together with the Chief Librarian T.E. Callander and opened in 1968. [10] It is locally listed, within the South Norwood conservation area and a national listing application has been made to Historic England.
Since 1974 all Surrey areas have had district/borough councils providing a second tier of services (see the Local Government Act 1972) replacing Urban Districts and Rural Districts. Approximately a third of the population elect a further more localised third tier of local government to civil parishes such as Farnham , Claygate and Horley .
It is a branch of Haringey Libraries run by London Borough of Haringey and is open 7 days a week. [1] It has an active friends group; the Friends of Marcus Garvey Library. [ 2 ] Its Black Literature and Marcus Garvey collections are amongst the resources used by a local Black diasporan community.
Most of their Church of England parish registers, from 1538 to 1987 (baptisms to 1912; marriages to 1937; and burials to 1987) are now available via ancestry.co.uk. The online Guide to parish registers held at Surrey History Centre indicates that significant numbers of the registers for parishes historically in Surrey but now in London are held ...
Winner of the Stirling Prize for Architecture. Peckham Library is a library and community building situated in Peckham in south-east London, United Kingdom.It was designed by Alsop and Störmer, [1] engineered by AKT II and won the Stirling Prize for Architecture in 2000.
The Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964 (c. 75) is an act of the United Kingdom Parliament. It created a statutory duty for local authorities in England and Wales [1] "to provide a comprehensive and efficient library service for all persons". [2] It also allowed local authorities to "provide and maintain museums and art galleries".
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