Home reading section in reconstructed Reference Room

Category

Library Item

Item no

35093

Title

Leith Branch Library: Home Reading section reopened (in reconstructed Reference Room) after bomb damage

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1943

Size

11.4 x 16.0 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

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After the amalgamation of Leith with Edinburgh in 1920, the provision of a library service was promised. The grounds of Leith Mount, the manse of North Leith Parish Church, were acquired for the building of Leith Library and Town Hall, opened in 1932.The building was badly damaged in an air raid in April 1941 but was restored and re-opened in 1955.

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