Friends of the Old Library

Wormella

Wormella

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You can have all the plans you want for a building - but they are only that unless you own it - and if it's not for sale, you can't buy it - irrespective of the price.
 
kyoto49

kyoto49

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I went to the AGM tonight, great bunch of people doing their best to save one of Staffords most important Victorian buildings, but the apathy of Stafford people is hearbreaking. About 30 attended the AGM, they have 300 members and c1000 follow their facebook page. I left thoroughly depressed abut the people of this town to be honest.

If you haven't already done so and want to make a difference please become a member (free) or pledge a financial amount towards the future purchase of this wonderful old building. Pledge only payable once the building is for sale at a reasonable price and is purchased by the Friends of the Library :)

https://www.facebook.com/friendsoftheoldlibrary/
 
John Marwood

John Marwood

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kyoto49 said:
I went to the AGM tonight, great bunch of people doing their best to save one of Staffords most important Victorian buildings, but the apathy of Stafford people is hearbreaking. About 30 attended the AGM, they have 300 members and c1000 follow their facebook page. I left thoroughly depressed abut the people of this town to be honest.

If you haven't already done so and want to make a difference please become a member (free) or pledge a financial amount towards the future purchase of this wonderful old building. Pledge only payable once the building is for sale at a reasonable price and is purchased by the Friends of the Library :)

https://www.facebook.com/friendsoftheoldlibrary/
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It's not

It's not Victorian

Never mind apathy, what about accuracy
 
1JKz

1JKz

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kyoto49 said:
I went to the AGM tonight, great bunch of people doing their best to save one of Staffords most important Victorian buildings, but the apathy of Stafford people is hearbreaking. About 30 attended the AGM, they have 300 members and c1000 follow their facebook page. I left thoroughly depressed abut the people of this town to be honest.

If you haven't already done so and want to make a difference please become a member (free) or pledge a financial amount towards the future purchase of this wonderful old building. Pledge only payable once the building is for sale at a reasonable price and is purchased by the Friends of the Library :)

https://www.facebook.com/friendsoftheoldlibrary/
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I went, stayed for the full 2 hours an all!
 
1JKz

1JKz

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John Marwood said:
It's not

It's not Victorian

Never mind apathy, what about accuracy
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House of Windsor.

JM's very clever you know, funny and clever.
Funny, clever and sexy.
...he told me.

History
Stafford Borough Library was housed throughout the later C19 in the Borough Hall. This was at first a reading room, but a reference library and lending library were established in the former dining room of the Hall in 1882. The present building, originally known as the 'New Free Library', was designed by the Liverpool architects Briggs, Wolstenholme and Thornely in 1912 and opened in 1914. It was partially funded by the charity of Andrew Carnegie, although apparently before the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust had been founded in 1913. Its foundation stone was laid by the Mayor of Stafford, Cllr. C W Miller on 19th February, 1913. It housed the lending and reference libraries and a reading room. It also became the location of the collection of ethnographic, zoological and geological specimens formed by Clement Lindley Wragge of Oakamoor, Staffordshire, which moved here from the Borough Hall. Open access to the shelved books was allowed from 1929 and an art gallery was opened in the building in 1934. An extension was added to the south-eastern end in 1962, apparently to the Borough Architect's design. The building ceased to operate as a library in 1998 and was then used as Stafford Performing Arts Centre. In 2011 the building was sold by the borough to a developer and planning permission was granted to turn it into a restaurant in 2013, but this was not implemented and at the time of survey (June 2015) the building was vacant and for sale.
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
1JKz said:
House of Windsor.

JM's very clever you know, funny and clever.
Funny, clever and sexy.
...he told me.

History
Stafford Borough Library was housed throughout the later C19 in the Borough Hall. This was at first a reading room, but a reference library and lending library were established in the former dining room of the Hall in 1882. The present building, originally known as the 'New Free Library', was designed by the Liverpool architects Briggs, Wolstenholme and Thornely in 1912 and opened in 1914. It was partially funded by the charity of Andrew Carnegie, although apparently before the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust had been founded in 1913. Its foundation stone was laid by the Mayor of Stafford, Cllr. C W Miller on 19th February, 1913. It housed the lending and reference libraries and a reading room. It also became the location of the collection of ethnographic, zoological and geological specimens formed by Clement Lindley Wragge of Oakamoor, Staffordshire, which moved here from the Borough Hall. Open access to the shelved books was allowed from 1929 and an art gallery was opened in the building in 1934. An extension was added to the south-eastern end in 1962, apparently to the Borough Architect's design. The building ceased to operate as a library in 1998 and was then used as Stafford Performing Arts Centre. In 2011 the building was sold by the borough to a developer and planning permission was granted to turn it into a restaurant in 2013, but this was not implemented and at the time of survey (June 2015) the building was vacant and for sale.
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Would have been Saxe-Coburg and Gotha at the time, before the conversion to "Windsor" in 1917.
 
1JKz

1JKz

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Whichever way you look at it, any Staffordian (born and breed here, imported or exported) and those with empathy and love for the town, the buildings historic value and down right loveliness, would want the big old lump of a beauty, to stay around for a few years yet.

Am i right comrades?
 
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