Tag: Library Visits
Malpas Library, Newport Friday morning 29th July
I will be at Malpas Library, Newport this Friday morning, the 29th July. Come along for stories and drawing and fun… See you there!
Carnegie Libraries – and the Tipton Slasher!
This week I have been in Sandwell, west of Birmingham, in the West Midlands. Also known as the Black Country, because it was the heart of the industrial revolution with foundries and smoke everywhere, making stuff for the British Empire. Several of the libraries are Carnegie Libraries. Andrew Carnegie was once the richest man in…
My memories of Dunblane
Twenty years ago this morning Sandra Reid, then the Children’s Librarian in Stirling, picked me up from my hotel and took me to my first library visit that day. We drove through Dunblane. I remember Sandra saying that we wouldn’t normally go that way but there was traffic on the main road. She said that…