To be honest, as we walked past Hornsey Library, my eye wasn't immediately drawn to the bronze sculpture by TB Huxley-Jones. I first saw the rubbish floating in the small ornamental pool below the non-working (?) fountain.

Then I noticed how forlorn the reclining woman now seems. Uncared for. And not only because of the litter. The bronze is stained. The brick plinth seems to be breaking-up.

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§ Hornsey Library is a Grade II listed building. Details on <a href="https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1246935" rel="nofollow">Historic England website</a>. This is part of the description on that site:   "The library was designed with wit and vivacity, to impart a sense of energy and modernity to reading and cultural events. It was conceived on a grand scale, designed to impart a sense of spaciousness at even the busiest times.   "Built to replace a library of 1899 which could not hold 100,000 books, it was the last building to be erected by Hornsey MB before it was incorporated into LB Haringey in April 1965. As a civic gesture in the centre of a large residential area it is particularly successful, its artworks commemorating the borough through four hundred years.   "It was a building that appealed to critics from the library profession. `This is not a library from which much new will be learned by students looking for gimmicks. What they will learn, though, .. Is how good a working library will emerge when there is close co-operation at all stages between a librarian who believes that his job is to get books to readers, and an architect who can appreciate the complexities of that simple sounding demand". (Library Association Record, April 1965, p.120).

§ Far better photo of the sculpture taken in 2011 by Roger Dean and posted - with a comment by Roger - on his <a href="https://esotericlondon.com/tag/t-b-huxley-jones/" rel="nofollow">Esoteric London website</a>. [Link checked 16 August 2017.] § Google Street View <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/6tu1eD9hAtT2" rel="nofollow">of the sculpture from Hatherley Gardens</a>. § Requests to use this photo? Like most of my photos this is CC = Creative Commons. To read what you can and can't do with Creative Commons photos <a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/" rel="nofollow">please read here</a>.