Image ID: 11892

Market Place, Newark on Trent, 1974

Courtesy of H. Brown

Market Place
Newark on Trent
England

There were other libraries in Newark before the Gilstrap Free Library ��� but they were subscription libraries to which you had to pay to be a member. One of them, known as The Stock Library is pictured here (immediately to the right of the black-and-white building). It���s seen here as Wilkinson���s furniture shop, but today it has been taken over by a pub chain who have named it ���The Sir John Arderne���. John Arderne (not a Sir) was a noted Medieval surgeon who is believed to have been born (or resided) in Newark. He is remembered in the annals of medical history as the ���first English surgeon��� and for his early successful method of treating haemorrhoids. Why not Google him?

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