Spent hours in here as a child. It was opened in 1934, on the same day as the Queensway tunnel, by King George V & Queen Mary. Went in again a few months ago & took this pic. of the Wilfred Owen memorial window.
shame its closed now, due to unsafe skylights, they debatin whether its financially viable to repair them, or whether to just let the place become derelict and a scumbags canvass for vandalism and grafitti...
shame its closed now, due to unsafe skylights, they debatin whether its financially viable to repair them, or whether to just let the place become derelict and a scumbags canvass for vandalism and grafitti...
So Frank Field was going to find the funds to turn the Borough Road college into luxury apartments, but they can't find the funds to repair an absolutely amazing building. I feel ashamed to admit I'm from this place sometimes. Look across the water to what the scousers have achieved in the past five years and ask yourself " What have we, the people of Wirral achieved in the past twenty years?" Apart from the Golf tournament in Hoylake (which had 'ROYAL LIVERPOOL OPEN' printed all over it.) What else have we done?
I've just thought maybe we should all start an online petition on the government website. I'm not entirely sure how it can be done but I do know that anybody can start off a petition. Maybe if we all stood together and started a petition off about this then something may get done about it?
I thought they announced in the local rag a few weeks back that the money to restore and repair the skylights etc, has been found and the building was now safe and would remain the library??
I certainly hope it will survive, mainly because I spent so much time there as a child. Looking at the icwirral link, I promise, if it is ever turned into a mosque, I shall seriously consider trying to obtain a quantity of explosives.
If it was moved what a storey to follow it would be better than that temple at thieves in Egypt when they moved it away from the Niel...
So its not got a rosie future. Once its been tagged its down hill from there....
I mean look at the magnificent building in Hamilton square. There all pretty much solicitors offices now. Only the Town Hall i think i'm right in saying hasnt been converted, but they do weddings from it.
Its a shame. I think Library's as we used to know them will become a thing of the past, if we follow what's hapening in the states and there Library's.
I do wish the building good luck and hope it stays that's if i didnt get that across.
I mean look at the magnificent building in Hamilton square. There all pretty much solicitors offices now.
Yes, Mark; one of the finest Georgian squares in Europe & all the buildings are listed. When it was built, the park in the centre was fenced & was the private gardens of the residents & they all had keys. There's still some squares in London like that today.
"or whether to just let the place become derelict and a scumbags canvass for vandalism and grafitti... "
That makes me so cross when that's done on purpose so that developers can claim that it's "very sad but the building isn't worth saving!" when they've deliberatly made it happen - witness the King Eddy pub in Liverpool and a couple of the gorgeous ond houses on the edge of Birkenhead park.