![]() The library was open 6 days a week, from 10.00 a.m. The Librarian then was Miss Dorothy Leighton, and her deputy was Miss Mary Eastwood – though first names were never used for anyone over 30! Most of the assistants were in their late teens or early twenties, and we all got on well together. I was a library assistant in the early 1960s, and enjoyed it tremendously. When I started work as a volunteer at Trafford Local Studies, memories of an earlier working life in Sale Public Library came flooding back. Cynthia was kind enough to tell us about some of her memories: One of Trafford Local Studies’ volunteers, Cynthia Hollingworth, worked in Sale Library during the 1960s. Manchester Evening News, 7 October 1949 Sale public library issued 77,073 books in July and August. The Manchester Guardian, 3 November 1938 Paton-Williams, Rural Dean of Manchester, opening the new Sale Public Library yesterday. “One of the greatest liberties granted to a free civilisation is the liberty to read” said Canon F. It wasn’t until a new library building was erected in the 1930s, and the old one demolished, that the public were able to browse the shelves. The Manchester Guardian, 7 February 1912ĭuring its early years, library members were required to choose their books from a catalogue and order them at the library counter. To change the minds and hearts of people was the essential thing. To alter the status of women more was necessary than a share in the control of the political machine. Billington-Greig addressed a meeting last night in the Sale Public Library. Lectures were delivered by founding members of the Women’s Freedom League: Charlotte Despard and Teresa Billington-Greig, amongst others. ![]() In the early twentieth century, the library welcomed radical speakers on the subjects of socialism and women’s suffrage.
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