Opened in 1940 and badly damaged a month later during the Manchester Blitz. Rebuilt in 1953, and now a Local Heritage Asset.
Built in 1914, one of the 660 libraries funded in Britain by the Scottish-American steel magnate and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.
First library to be set up under the provisions of the Public Libraries Act 1850, in Manchester, England, which allowed local authorities to impose a local tax of one penny to pay for the service.
Described by the historian Ian Orton as “one of the most revolutionary library advances of the nineteenth century”.
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