Mr Monkey visits the John Rylands Library, 18th April

"It looks a lot better since they cleaned the grime off the outside"

Mr Monkey looking at the new John Rylands building

Around the corner Mr Monkey stopped and gawped at the exterior of the neo-Gothic building, built between 1890 and 1899 by Enriqueta Rylands, widow of John Rylands (Manchester's first cotton millionaire), at a cost of £230,000. Mr Monkey tore himself away from the gargoyles and trotted along to the new entrance in the new extension.

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