Crumpsall District Library: Cheetham Hill Road Cheetham Hill

A new district Library intended to serve Crumpsall and parts of the Cheetham Hill area of Manchester, the memorial stone of which was laid by the Lord Mayor, Edward Holt, on Tuesday 26 October 1909, the event being duly recorded in a small paragraph in the Manchester City News the following Saturday

The memorial stone of the new branch Public Library for Crumpsall was laid by the Lord Mayor on Tuesday. The new building, which replaces the reading-room close by and fronts Cheetham Hill Road, will include a lecture hall. The cost will be £8,000 towards which the Libraries Committee has in hand £2,700. At Tuesday's ceremony there were present members of the Libraries Committee and other persons interested in the work. To the Lord Mayor a silver trowel was presented by Alderman Plummer. .... [Manchester City News 30 October 1909. Page 5]

The library was opened in April 1911 by the Lord Mayor Mr Charles Behrens, and included a general reading-room, rooms for children, special study-rooms, and a lecture-hall with accommodation for two hundred persons. In July 1974 the library was moved to new accommodation in the Abraham Moss Centre. After serving as the Manchester Black Resource Centre, the building has been empty and unused since 2008.

Reference    Builder 25 September 1909 Page 347 - contracts
Reference    Building News 24 September 1909 Page xvi – contracts
Reference    Manchester City News 30 October 1909. Page 5 Col 5 (Home News)
Reference    Manchester Guardian 11 April 1911 page 5 - opening
Reference    Building News 14 April 1911 page 521
Reference    Building News 5 May 1911 page 649