Leith Branch Library

Category

Library Item

Item no

35101

Title

Leith Branch Library: Opening ceremony of reconstructed library after bomb damage

Description

Pictured left to right : Councillor D.M Weatherstone, Chairman, Libraries & Museums Committee. Dr E. A. Savage, Principal Librarian, 1922-1942. Lord Provost, Sir John G. Banks. T. S. Carruthers, Branch Librarian. R. Buchart, Principal Librarian, 1942-1953. C. S. Minto, City Librarian & Curator 1953-1970.

Date

1955

Size

15.3 x 21.2 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

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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