A walk in and around the Manor House Museum Gardens
The Public Library
Designed by Goddard, Paget and Carlow. The lending library was first established in the old Corn Exchange on Market Place in 1896. Its second home was in Silver Street (1901). It moved in 1904 to this handsome building, a "jewelled casket of learning."
The building was made possible by a gift of £8,000 from Andrew Carnegie who broke his usual practice of anonymity to open the building in person. Built of red brick with Ketton stone dressings it has a Collyweston slate roof. A surprisingly uninhibited design for 1904.
Pages in A walk in and around the Manor House Museum Gardens
- 1. The Parish Church
- 2. Sawyer's Almshouses
- 3. Picadilly Buildings
- 4. The George Hotel
- 5. The Manor House Museum
- 6. You are here The Public Library
- 7. Dryland Memorial and Horse Troughs
- 8. Alfred East Art Gallery
- 9. Council Offices
- 10. Speight's Corner
- 11. London Road Corner
- 12. Swimming Pool
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