Trailer ready to take part in Wester Hailes festival

Category

Library Item

Item no

28406

Title

Mobile libraries: Trailers (second generation); Trailer decorated to take part in Wester Hailes festival cavalcade

Description

The library van trailer is decorated with balloons and a frieze.

Artist / maker

Ingram, Stanley

Date

1979

Size

20.4 x 25.5 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Edinburgh Libraries went mobile when it introduced the first urban mobile service in Scotland in 1949 serving areas without permanent library buildings. The reach of the library also increased with the introduction of a housebound service in 1964 through cooperation with WRVS volunteers. A library link service was launched in 1992 providing transport to and from the library for users who, due to physical constraints, would be otherwise unable to visit.

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Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

Sport and leisure > Activities > Reading and books

Transport > Land > Mobile libraries

Transport > Land > Trucks

Transport > Land > Vans