OK you can come in now …… Chorlton Library welcomes you back

Well actually it is tomorrow and is part of a rolling programme of events starting when the doors open to invite back the friends of the library, and the curious.

The restored dome ready for the grand reopeing, 2025

This is followed by the official launch and fun day on Saturday April 4th.

The first opening, 1914

To which on the following Saturday at 2pm I shall be talking about the history of Chorlton and the library.

And as ever it will be a mix of the serious, the daft and a collection of all the things you wanted you know about Chorlton’s past but never knew who to ask.

Which is all I want to say.

Leaving me just to thank Beverly and the Library staff, along with Sally Dadhwal who asked me to give the talk and supplied some pictures of the library during its refurbishment.

The restored entrance, 2025

To these I can add Councillors Matthew Benham, John Hacking and Tina Kirwin-McGinley who also sent me pictures and to Peter Topping who composed a ditty on the Library’s reopening

Location; Chorlton

Pictures; the refurbished dome, 2025, courtesy of Sally Dadhwal, and the Manchester Courier, November 5th, 1914