Re: 'The Library of Birmingham - Now It Is Open'
Hi All...Not read all the inputs on this Thread yet but may I ask a question???
Who remembers the "Old Library"??? ...And I do not mean the one before this one!!!! (Watched that one going up in 1967....)
The one I loved to visit wasVery old building with wooden floors, wooden stairs, and wooden galleries, used to have a Record Library too where you could Loan an LP of any Classical Recording that you wanted .....That was a place I used to love to visit.....Reminded me of a Dickensian era....Loads of books on wooden shelves.
The Reference Library was, at that time, right next door, to the left, as I recall.
There was a Fountain just to the right...Think it has gone now...Shame...
Recollections anyone????
Brian.
P.S. Will now have a look at the NEW "Carbuncle" !!!! Sorry I said that but what happened to HISTORY ?????
P.P.S. I wonder why the "OLD" Library was not given a Preservation Order !!!!