"The Beaney Institute, for the education of working men, in High street, with which is combined a public library and museum, was erected in 1897???99, at a cost including land and furnishing, of about ??15,000, of which ??11,000 was left for the purpose by the late Dr. Beaney, a native of Canterbury, who died in 1892 at Melbourne, Australia: the building is in the Renaissance style, from designs by" . . . . .