Photos of Wigan
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Opening Carnneige Library
Photo: RON HUNT
Photo: RON HUNT
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Item #: 30890
Item #: 30890
Opening of the Carnegie Library, Lord Balcarres and Mayor Sam Wood were guests. Date of opening 11th December 1907
Comment by: Helen of Troy on 11th January 2019 at 07:45
These were wonderful buildings. I was a library assistant in a Carnegie Library in Kent.
I hope this one is still standing. I used to pass it everyday on my way to school in Ormskirk
Comment by: Albert. on 11th January 2019 at 12:15
At the latter end of 1961, my wife and I lived in a flat very close to the Carnegie Library, until allocated a police house, at Goose Green in September, 1962, by that time I had been posted to Pemberton sub. div. working Newtown, and Pemberton
Comment by: Jarvo on 11th January 2019 at 18:16
The five fellows on the left were all local hustlers. Was tough in Pem in those days...
Comment by: peter on 5th February 2019 at 15:54
still standing but isn't a library anymore. its offices now for a building firm,shame really it was a great library spent many hours in there when I was a kid.
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