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Opening of Brentford Library, May 9 1904Janet McNamara provided this splendid photo from Chiswick Library showing the Library Committee and Andrew Carnegie outside the newly opened Brentford Library at Clifden House.Fred Turner, Brentford Librarian at the time, provides an account in his 'History and Antiquities of Brentford' of the opening of Brentford's first public library in 1890, using a temporary room at Clifden House, and then the building of the new library in 1903/4. Andrew Carnegie donated £5000 towards the costs of the new library. Names are under the photo
Published June 2012; updated January 2013 |