The library in Centenary Square is due to open in September.

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Edell wound up constructing a 600-square-foot library in his Mendocino County, Calif. home to house his collection.

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For nearly 90 years until production ceased in 1999, a factory made pasta where the library now stands, in a square near the city's centre.

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The campaigners object to the loss of disabled parking spaces as Wiltshire Council plan to create a "European-style piazza" at the centre of the city, claiming the eight spaces in the Guildhall Square are the only places within 250m of the Library, Post Office, and banks.

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Inside, there is about 3, 000 square feet, with a 28-foot-wide octagonal double-height living room with a library at one end and doors opening out to a terrace on the other.

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