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<h1 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; color: #0071b9;">Getting to our Libraries</span></strong></h1>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Here you will find useful information on how to visit the libraries in Havering.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Please be advised that from <strong>Saturday 29 March, Gidea Park, Harold Wood and South Hornchurch Libraries will be permanently closed</strong>.&nbsp; Below you will find further information about how to plan your journey to our other libraries.</span></p>
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<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Public Transport</strong></span></h2>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://tfl.gov.uk/plan-a-journey/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Plan your journey in advance with the TFL journey planner</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">To view a list of buses that will take you to our libraries, please visit our <a href="https://libraries.havering.gov.uk/digital-content/libraries/find-a-library">library pages</a>.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/dial-a-ride/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">If you are a member of the Dial-a-Ride scheme, you can book your journey here.</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Please visit our <a href="https://libraries.havering.gov.uk/digital-content/libraries/find-a-library">library pages</a> for details on car parks at our libraries.&nbsp; You will also find further information for blue badge holders.</span></p>

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<h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; color: #0071b9;"><strong>Renew your library loans</strong></span></h1>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">To renew your library books online, click on the 'Account' or 'Login' link in the menu at the top of your screen, where you will be able to log in to your account with your library card and PIN.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">You can also renew your books using our 24 hour renewal line on 0333 370 4700.&nbsp; Just remember to have your library card handy!</span></p>

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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0071b9; font-size: 24pt;">Ebooks and Audiobooks</span></h3>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">To download ebooks or audiobooks please choose a provider and follow the links to their sites and apps.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Please have your library card handy.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><img style="float: right;" src="https://resources.overdrive.com/wp-content/uploads/Libby_BorrowEA-2-1-22.jpg" alt="Libby logo, with text borrow ebooks and audiobooks" width="250" height="250" /> &nbsp;</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0071b9; font-size: 18pt;">Libby, by Overdrive</span></h2>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Borrow and read ebooks and audiobooks for free with Libby. &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It's really easy to use - all you need is a library card to get started!&nbsp;</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://www.overdrive.com/apps/libby/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Download Libby</a> | <a href="https://www.overdrive.com/apps/libby#GettingStarted" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Getting started with Libby</a> | <a href="https://help.libbyapp.com/en-us/index.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Libby Help</a></span></p>
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<h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0071b9; font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Ulverscroft Digital</strong></span></h1>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Ulverscroft Digital provide a wide range of e-audiobooks that can be downloaded to the ULibrary app or straight to a desktop PC.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://www.ulibrary.net/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Download ULibrary</a> | <a href="https://www.ulibrary.net/how-it-works/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Getting started with Ulverscroft Digital</a> | <a href="https://www.ulibrary.net/faqs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ulverscroft Digital FAQ's</a></span></p>
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<h1 style="text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; color: #0071b9;">BorrowBox</span></strong></h1>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">BorrowBox offers easy access to a broad choice of eAudiobooks for you to borrow and listen to through a simple app for smartphone and tablets&nbsp; You can also borrow&nbsp; and download your eAudiobooks to your PC or Mac to put them onto an iPad or other MP3 player.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">You can borrow up to 4 eAudiobooks at a time and they'll automatically expire at the end of the three-week loan period, so you won't need to return them.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Upon logging in, your PIN is the last four digits of your library card number, not your library PIN.</span></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.borrowbox.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">Download Borrowbox here</span></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 18pt;">Summer Reading Challenge 2025</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The Summer Reading Challenge is returning to Havering libraries, and as always - it's free!&nbsp; This year it's all about the magic of nature with the theme 'Story Garden'.&nbsp; Its aim is to inspire children from ages 4-11, to tap into a world of imagination through reading, exploring the magical connection between storytelling and nature.</span></p>
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<h1><span style="font-size: 14pt;">How to take part</span></h1>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">1.&nbsp; From Saturday 5 July, children can start registering to take part.&nbsp; Simply visit any Havering library with your library card and ask one of our team members if you can register.&nbsp; If your child is not yet a member of the library, please <a href="https://libraries.havering.gov.uk/user/register">complete our online registration form</a>.&nbsp; You will be given a temporary library card number which you can bring with you, along with an official form of name and address.&nbsp; We will then issue you a new library card.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">2.&nbsp; Once your child is registered, they'll be given a 'Story Garden' character to go on our progress wall and a list of session times.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">3.&nbsp; Borrow 6 library books and take them home.&nbsp; Once your child has read 2 books, return to the library you registered with, during one of the sessions and your child can speak to one of our library volunteers to tell them about the books they have read.&nbsp; If you'd prefer you can do a book review for one of the books and tell us about the other one.&nbsp; Your child will be given a 'Story Garden' sticker booklet and the first two stickers.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">4.&nbsp; Return when your child has read another two books to receive the next set of stickers.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">5.&nbsp; To complete the challenge return before 6 September to tell us about books 5 and 6, after which, they will receive a certificate and medal and be entered into a prize draw for a nature book.&nbsp; Pre-school children will receive a gold sticker instead of a medal.</span></p>
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<h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; color: #0071b9;">Volunteering in Havering Libraries</span></h1>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">At Havering Libraries, we welcome those who are willing to give up their precious time to help their local library service and give back to their community.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">We have a wide range of volunteering opportunities for adults and some for children above the age of 13.</span></p>
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<h2><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Volunteer opportunities</span></h2>
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<p><a href="https://tv-uk2.sol.us/data.aspx?ctid=eb8613ca-e5ce-4ab0-ac10-4a21ec2eba7b" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chess Club Volunteer</a></p>
<p><a href="https://tv-uk2.sol.us/data.aspx?ctid=fa6de795-aa9b-4243-9cdd-d3f17052eaee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Event Assistant Volunteer</a></p>
<p><a href="https://tv-uk2.sol.us/data.aspx?ctid=c5c9c7fc-4c1f-465e-b4fe-7a07395095b0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Homework Buddy Volunteer</a></p>
<p><a href="https://tv-uk2.sol.us/data.aspx?ctid=5ffeafe8-1464-49de-aba9-53c1a5f3ced5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Local Studies Volunteer</a></p>
<p><a href="https://tv-uk2.sol.us/data.aspx?ctid=a4bab3b7-1461-4eb4-86e8-6eed53fd3b59" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marketing &amp; Publicity Volunteer</a></p>
<p><a href="https://tv-uk2.sol.us/data.aspx?ctid=d1604088-7ac3-40d6-b62a-10c2d49f397a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Meeter &amp; Greeter Volunteer</a></p>
<p><a href="https://tv-uk2.sol.us/data.aspx?ctid=f5a85955-370e-4545-a16e-9d2133940b45" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reading Buddy Volunteer</a></p>
<p><a href="https://tv-uk2.sol.us/data.aspx?ctid=84f9fdf2-6d20-41c9-98db-a5fef765e02d" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shelving Squad Volunteer</a></p>
<p><a href="https://tv-uk2.sol.us/data.aspx?ctid=ed55eb31-d153-41b1-b903-fbf656b0fb65" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Summer Reading Challenge Volunteer</a></p>
<p><a href="https://tv-uk2.sol.us/data.aspx?ctid=cf2578d8-a68e-406a-9364-f0d1b7c80cb3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Techy Buddy Volunteer</a></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">If you are aged 16+ please <a href="https://app.betterimpact.com/Application?OrganizationGuid=f4fd70cb-bce4-4fd3-a085-d819bd2f5de1&amp;ApplicationFormNumber=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">click here</a> to register and complete an application form.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">If you are aged between 13-15 and would like to volunteer for the Summer Reading Challenge or as part of the Duke of Edinburgh scheme, please <a href="https://app.betterimpact.com/Application?OrganizationGuid=f4fd70cb-bce4-4fd3-a085-d819bd2f5de1&amp;ApplicationFormNumber=2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">click here</a> to complete your registration and application form.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">You will need to register with MyImpact Page to complete the forms.&nbsp; MyImpact Page is run by <a href="https://www.betterimpact.com/siteguide/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Better Impact.</a></span></p>

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<h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0071b9; text-decoration: underline;">Library Meeting Rooms for Hire</span></span></strong></span></h1>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">We have a range of meeting rooms available to hire in Havering libraries at competitive rates.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Our meeting rooms are equipped with tables and seating, with some spaces suitable for meetings or conferences for up to 100 people.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Alternatively, the rooms can be used for exercise classes, parties (please enquire with each individual branch), study groups and more.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">You are also welcome to visit any of the branches to have a look at the space for yourself.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Please email <a href="mailto:libroombookings@havering.gov.uk">libroombookings@havering.gov.uk</a> to make a room booking enquiry</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Elm Park</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">RM12 4PT</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">&bull;&nbsp; &nbsp;Capacity of 30</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">&bull;&nbsp; &nbsp;Kitchen facilities</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">&bull;&nbsp; &nbsp;&pound;23 per hour</span></p>
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<h2 class="my-1 pt-2 text-center"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Harold Hill Library</span></h2>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">19a Farnham Road</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Harold Hill</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">RM3 8ED</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Meeting Room</strong></span></h3>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">&bull;&nbsp; &nbsp;Capacity of 30</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">&bull;&nbsp; &nbsp;&pound;28 per hour</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>HUB Room</strong></span></h3>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">&bull;&nbsp; &nbsp;Capacity of 30</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">&bull;&nbsp; &nbsp;&pound;28 per hour</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">&bull;&nbsp; &nbsp;Capacity of 6</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">&bull;&nbsp; &nbsp;&pound;21 per hour</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">44, North Street</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Hornchurch</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">RM11 1TB</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Large Meeting Room</strong></span></h3>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">&bull;&nbsp; &nbsp;Capacity of 100</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">&bull;&nbsp; &nbsp;&pound;33 for the first hour, then &pound;27 for each subsequent hour</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Classroom 1</strong></span></h3>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">&bull;&nbsp; &nbsp;Capacity of 50</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">&bull;&nbsp; &nbsp;28 IT points</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">&bull;&nbsp; &nbsp;&pound;28 per hour</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Classroom 2</strong></span></h3>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">&bull;&nbsp; &nbsp;Capacity of 12</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">&bull;&nbsp; &nbsp;30 IT points</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">&bull;&nbsp; &nbsp;&pound;23 per hour</span></p>
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<h2 class="my-1 pt-2 text-center"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Rainham Library</span></h2>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">6, Celtic Farm Road</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Rainham</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">RM13 9GP</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Dr Deri Stephens</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">&bull;&nbsp; &nbsp;Office Space</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">&bull;&nbsp; &nbsp;Capacity 10 seated, 12 standing</span></p>
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<h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; color: #0071b9; text-decoration: underline;">The Housebound Library Service</span></span></h1>
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<h2><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #0071b9;">How the Service Works</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The service exists to provide a tailor-made service to all members of the community who are unable (whether on a temporary or permanent basis) to visit their local library.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It is available to residents of Havering who are unable to get to the library due to age, illness or disability and have no-one who can visit a branch library on their behalf.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Our volunteers will visit you in your own home at an arranged date and time with your local library and provide you with all the services that are available through loan in the Library Service.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Loan of all categories of fiction and non-fiction (in either spoken word CD or large print stock) are available from the entire Havering Libraries' collection.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">We compile an individual reader profile for each of our customers based on their reading preferences, which is regularly updated and allows us to provide our customers with the service they require.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Customers can borrow up to 25 items at any time and we are happy to renew items on request.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">All items may be borrowed to individual customers free of charge.&nbsp; In addition we are happy to take and supply requests free of charge.</span></p>
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<h3><span style="color: #0071b9;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Spoken word (talking books)</span></span></h3>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">If you prefer to listen to books rather than reading them, we have a wide range of spoken word CDs for you to choose from.</span></p>
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<h3><span style="color: #0071b9;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Large Print Books</span></span></h3>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For customers who have difficulty reading normal sized print, all our local libraries stock books in larger print.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">If you or a friend / relative are interested in using our Housebound Service, please telephone your local library.&nbsp; The phone numbers can be found <a href="https://haveringproduction.mylibrary.digital/digital-content/libraries/find-a-library">here.</a></span></p>

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<h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0071b9; font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Local Studies Library</strong></span></h1>
<h2>Location</h2>
<p>Local Studies Library, Central Library, St. Edwards Way, Romford &nbsp;RM1 3AR</p>
<p>01708 432392</p>
<p><a href="mailto:localstudies@havering.gov.uk">localstudies@havering.gov.uk</a></p>
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<h2>Opening hours</h2>
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<li>Monday: 10am - 1pm and 2pm - 4pm</li>
<li>Tuesday: 9am - 1pm</li>
<li>Wednesday: Closed</li>
<li>Thursday: 1pm - 4pm and 5pm - 8pm</li>
<li>Friday: 9am - 12noon and&nbsp;1pm - 4pm</li>
<li>Saturday: Every second Saturday of the month, 10am - 1pm and 2pm - 4pm</li>
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<h2>About Local Studies</h2>
<p>Local Studies is part of the Havering Library Service and is situated on the first floor of the Central Library in Romford.</p>
<p>If you are interested in Havering's history, want to start tracing your family history, find an old newspaper report, information about your house or street in the past, a photograph or other illustrations of Havering's buildings and historical events we may be able to help you.</p>
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<h2>Appointments and bookings of equipment</h2>
<p>A selection of books and journals about the history of Havering and Essex are available for browsing, as are specialist titles for family history.</p>
<p>An appointment is essential to carry out research requiring access to items not held in the local studies room.</p>
<p>Please contact us to discuss your requirements before visiting.</p>
<p>To use microfilm or microfiche please book the microfilm reader/printer.</p>
<p>Two computers with dedicated access to the internet for local studies and family history researchers are available with free access to Find My Past and Ancestry. It is recommended that you book these in advance by telephoning 01708 432392 during opening hours.</p>
<p>A current Havering Libraries card or identification is required for access to the internet.</p>
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<h2>Our Collections</h2>
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<p><button class="accordion">Rate Books</button></p>
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<p>Rate books covering the period 1839 to 1968 (incomplete) are a useful tool for local and family historians. Whilst the majority of volumes relate to the Romford district there are twenthieth century volumes for Hornchurch, Rainham, Cranham and Upminster.</p>
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<p><button class="accordion">Trade Directories</button></p>
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<p>&bull; Pigot's 1834 &bull; White's History Gazetteer and Directory 1849 and 1863 &bull; Post Office Directory 1855 and 1859 &bull; Kelly's 1878 - 1937</p>
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<p>&bull; Earliest Romford, Hornchurch and District 1936, 1938 and 1956 &bull; Havering area residential and business telephone directories from 1956. &bull; Almanacs, directories and town guides dating from the early twentieth century as well as local Chamber of Commerce Yearbooks and Official Guides to Havering and its predecessors</p>
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<p><button class="accordion">Newspapers</button></p>
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<p>&bull; Essex Times (microfilm) 1866 - 1937 &bull; Romford Times (microfilm) 1913 - 1968 &bull; Hornchurch and Romford Express (microfilm) 1969 - 1979 &bull; Romford Recorder (microfilm) 1934 - present &bull; Hornchurch and Upminster News (microfilm) 1936 - 1965 &bull; Hornchurch and Upminster Echo (microfilm) 1965 - 1974 &bull; Havering Echo (microfilm) 1974 - 1980</p>
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<p><button class="accordion">Illustrations</button></p>
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<p>The illustrations collection includes around 5,000 photographs, prints, paintings and slides. Alfred Bennett Bamford's prints of the local area at the end of the Victorian era are particulary interesting, whilst the photographic collection illustrates life in Havering over the past century. Digital copies of many illustrations are viewable online via the Library Catalogue It is usually possible to provide copies of items from our picture collection for a small charge, subject to condition and copyright.</p>
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<p>Our collection is primarily post 19th Century and covers many aspects of life in the Havering area. Standard 18th and 19th century histories of Essex, as well as early histories of the Havering area are available. A pamphlet collection includes periodical articles, official reports, guidebooks, news-cuttings, some sale catalogues and ephemera. A specialist collection of Family History titles are available for reference. Also available are the publications of the Local and Family History societies in Havering and practical guides, indexes, bibliographies and periodicals for Local and Family History. Our core collection can be found on the library service catalogue.</p>
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<p>Facsimiles of historical maps of Essex including Chapman and Andre 1777 are available a well as Ordnance Survey Maps of the Havering area at various scales. The collection includes Edward Gotto's 1853 Map of Romford, Havering and Romford Parish Map 1845, Hornchurch Parish Map 1812 and 1849 and the Upminster historian Thomas Lewis Wilson's copy of the Upminster Tithe Map, 1854. The collection includes a number of Local Authority planning maps reflecting the development of Havering in the twentieth century and some architect plans.</p>
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<p><button class="accordion">Census Records</button></p>
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<p>Census 1841 - 1901 are available on microfilm/fiche for the London Borough of Havering. Please book microfilm/fiche readers in advance. UK Census 1841 - 1911 and the 1939 Register are free to access through Ancestry.com and Find My Past, with the 1921 Census also available via Find My Past.</p>
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<p>&bull; General Register Office index to births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales 1837 - 1950 (microfiche) and 1837 - 1950 (micofiche) and 1837 - 2006 through Ancestry.com and FindMyPast.co.uk which are available free in Romford Central, Hornchurch and Upminster libraries. &bull; London Borough of Havering Cemeteries and Crematoria burial records are being added to the website DeceasedOnline &bull; Crow Lane Cemetery burial index 1871 - 1953 &bull; St Andrew's Hornchurch Burial Index 1576-2000 Please book microfilm/fiche readers in advance.</p>
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<p>&bull; Romford Constituency 1938 and 1939, then from 1956. &bull; Hornchurch Constituency from 1947 and Upminster Constituency from its formation in 1971. &bull; Between 2003 and 2014, only the edited public register is available &bull; From 2010 the constituencies are Hornchurch and Upminster Constituency, Romford Constituency and Dagenham and Rainham Constituency. &bull; Since 2014 the Local Studies Library no longer receives a copy of the electoral register. A copy of the current Electoral Register is held at the Town Hall, Romford. Family history databases Find My Past and Ancestry, provide some additional access to electoral registers.</p>
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<p>&bull; Romford Rural District Council from 1895 - 1936. &bull; Minutes and reports for the London Borough of Havering from its creation in 1965 Also minutes for preceding authorities in the borough including: &bull; Commissioners of Paving and Lighting 1819 - 1851 (incomplete) &bull; Romford Local Board of Health 1951 - 1895 &bull; Romford Union Rural Sanitary Authority 1872 - 1894 &bull; Romford Urban District Council from 1895 - 1937 &bull; Romford Borough Council from 1937 - 1965 &bull; Hornchurch Urban District Council from 1926 - 1965 &bull; Parish Council Minute Books for Cranham, Hornchurch, Rainham, Upminster and Wennington (various dates)</p>
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<p>We do not hold original parish registers. The following are available on microfiche or microfilm. Dates are for earliest and latest. Coverage varies for individual ceremonies. Some transcripts and indexes are available to 1850. &bull; Cranham, All Saints baptisms, marriages and burials mid C16th to mid C20th &bull; Havering-atte-Bower, St. John the Evangelist christenings, marriages, banns and burials mid C17th to early C20th &bull; Hornchurch, St. Andrews baptisms, marriages and burials mid C16th to late C19th &bull; St. Andrew&rsquo;s Church, Hornchurch, burial index 1576-2000 (CD-Rom) &bull; North Ockendon, St. Mary Magdalene baptisms, marriages and burials late C16th to early C19th &bull; Rainham, St. Helen &amp; St. Giles baptisms, marriages banns and burials 1570 to mid C20th &bull; Romford, Congregational Church, Bethel Chapel baptisms 1812-1837 &bull; Romford, St. Edward the Confessor baptisms, banns, marriages and burials mid C16th to mid C19th &bull; Romford, Wesleyan Chapel baptisms 1835-1837 &bull; Upminster, Congregational Church, Upminster Hill Independent Chapel baptisms 1801-1837 &bull; Upminster, St. Laurence baptisms, marriages and burials mid C16th to early C20th &bull; Wennington, St. Mary and St. Peter mid C17th to mid C20th Please book microfilm/fiche readers in advance.</p>
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