Building Name

Sefton Park Branch Library Aigburth Road

Date
1911
Street
Aigburth Road
District/Town
Sefton, Liverpool
County/Country
Merseyside, England
Client
Corporation of Liverpool
Work
New build

Opened om 3 August 1911, this was the last of the branch libraries designed by the Corporation Surveyor, Thomas Shelmerdine.  Ashlar and roughcast on the ground floor with half timbering above, and tall, diagonally set brick chimneys like a Neo-Tudor village hall.  In the entrance porch, a repoussé copper panel commemorating the opening by Andrew Carnegie, Celtic Art Nouveau style, by J. A. Hodel.

Reference           Sharples: Liverpool 2004