Westbourne Library. Picture sent in by Jenny Young, Westbourne Library Manager
Westbourne Library will be celebrating its 100th birthday this year and they are looking for the borrower who has been using the library the longest, any ex- staff and anyone with memories of the library.
The Mayor of Bournemouth, Henry Robson, opened the newly built library in May 1916 on a portion of Wilton House garden in Alum Chine Road. The council were given £2000 by Andrew Carnegie to provide four libraries locally.
Over the years it has been altered, modernised and extended and was given a listed status in 1976.
Contact Jenny.Young@bournemouthlibraries.org.uk or phone 01202 761845.
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