Article 6RK5R Book returned to Cumbria school library 113 years overdue

Book returned to Cumbria school library 113 years overdue

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Robyn Vinter North of England correspondent
from World news | The Guardian on (#6RK5R)

Poetry of Byron borrowed by schoolboy Leonard Ewbank, who studied at Oxford and was killed at Ypres in 1916

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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