Oxhey Library
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Then
The estate's first library opened in June 1951 in Little Oxhey Lane, in an old farmhouse, and this library on Bridlington Road replaced it in May 1962, though Poor But Proud gives 20 June.5,25,119,125,196,198,199,602
Now
Extended with £1.4 million from the Big Lottery Fund, it reopened on 5 September 2009 and is still a county council library. While the work went on the service ran from a temporary building at 39 Oxhey Drive, the old Civil Defence headquarters, from the summer of 2008 to August 2009.
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- Change and renewal: Community life Renewal
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