First anniversary of the Library’s move to Stockwell Street

 

Possibly the first Library in the 1892 redevelopment of the original Woolwich Polytechnic 1890 building.

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The ‘new’ Library in the 1915 Market Street Building (not to scale!)

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Our earliest image of a member of Library staff, possibly in the Market Street building, but undated.

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Students in the 1939 Wellington Street building. The new building was bombed in 1940, so the Library did not move in until after the war.

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The Building was renovated in 1964. Including the Library.

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The exterior of the Wellington Street Library.

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Some sections of the Library later moved to Riverside House in Woolwich.

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In the early 1990s, the whole Library was moved to Riverside House after renovation.

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