The official opening of Ashby Free Library.

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Ref No:s02109
Date of Image:1906
Date Period:Edwardian
Title:The official opening of Ashby Free Library.
Description:The Public Library Acts of 1892 and 1893 encouraged the provision of library facilities, the first library in Scunthorpe being the Carnegie Free Library which opened in 1904 on the old Station Road. Scunthorpe Museum's first home was a room in the Carnegie Library in 1909. Scunthorpe's present Central Library was opened in 1974.