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=John Gray Centre (Haddington)= The John Gray Centre is located in Haddington and contains the Archives of East Lothian Council along with the Local History Library, a Museum dedicated to the history of the County of East Lothian and the branch library for Haddington.

The building opened in 2012 after an extensive programme of rennovation where four separate buildings were combined together to create the new heritage hub for East Lothian. It has been accredited as a 5-Star Visitor Attraction by Visit Scotland. The project was funded by East Lothian Council with support from the Heritage Lottery Fund and Historic Scotland.

History of the Building
The largest of the original buildings combined into the new Centre was the Seed & Grain Warehouse originally ocucpied by Roughhead and Park, Seed & Grain Merchants. Sales journals for this company from the early 20th Century were found in a hessian sack within a hollow wall during the rennovation. Later on the Warehouse was operated by Sinclair McGill and that is how the building became known locally up to the point of its rennovation.