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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Robyn Vinter North of England correspondent

Book returned to Cumbria school library 113 years overdue

The young Lord Byron
Lord Byron: a volume of his poetry borrowed in 1911 was found in Wales and returned to St Bees School, near Whitehaven. Photograph: The Granger Collection/Alamy

A book borrowed from a school library before the first world war has finally been returned – more than a century overdue.

A copy of Poetry of Byron was found by a man in Carmarthenshire, south Wales, who felt it should be returned to St Bees School, near Whitehaven, Cumbria, where it had been lent out to a schoolboy.

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