You come across this striking library on the long walk from Long Eaton station to the town centre.
The Carnegie Legacy in England will tell you about its history:
Designed by 1906, by architects Gorman and Ross of Long Eaton and built by Messrs J & J Warner of Mickleover. Above the entrance is a "mosaiced tympanum with the figure of Learning set against a golden sunburst."
The library also has a large stained glass window by Stoddart of Nottingham. ...
Awarded Grade II listing in 1986. To east of the main entrance is a pair of free-standing iron gates, all that now remains of the original Art Nouveau railings that encircled the library. These are also included in the listing.
2 comments:
What is the history of the Long Eaton Carnegie grant? I always thought that most Carnegie libraries went to the Scotland of Andrew Carnegie's ancestry or to singularly deprived areas. (Our own Carnegie centre in Skewen seems to have resulted from a personal connection with Blanche, the American-born wife of local MP, Sir Samuel Thomas Evans.)
Carnegie's earlier libraries were in Scotland, but I believe that later they were more widely spread.
Loughborough has a Carnegie library and I think the museum in Melton Mowbray used to be one too.
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