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Hello, on 29th June 2016, Darlington Borough Council called time on Crown Street Library, a beautiful library building constructed in 1885 by Arthur and Joseph Pease, a well renowned Quaker family, on behalf of their beloved brother Edward who sadly passed away in 1880. Edward had bequeathed the sum of £10,000 in his will to build a library to educate the poor people of the town, and stated in a covenant, which has been lost by the Council in 1974, that the land which he owned and passed later to the Corporation, that it be used as a library forever. It is the only library in Darlington with a population of almost 100,000 people apart from the small library at Cockerton Village, which has been reprieved until next March. I like John Robinson, who previously messaged you, would like to know the ratio of population to a library? At the moment we have a figure of 7th?, and when the Council installs the reduced service into the Dolphin Leisure Centre, I understand that we will be the lowest in the country? It seems like an unstoppable trend sweeping our country – another reason for isolation breeding ignorance once again.