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Fenton Library, Baker Street,
Fenton
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Fenton Free Library - completed in 1906
Along with Burslem library the library in Fenton was closed in 2011 by the Stoke-on-Trent City Council as part of the local governement spending cuts. |
Fenton Library - opening
details 2011
Fenton Library - opening details 1907
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FENTON PUBLIC LIBRARY. The Library and Newsroom is situated in Baker-street, and is open to the public as follows:- Lending and Reference Department.—Daily (excepting Thursdays and Saturdays), 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.; Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Newsroom.—Daily, from 9 a.m. to 9 30 p.m. The Lending Department contains 2,185 volumes, and the Reference Department 485 volumes. Librarian, Peter Fury; Assistant, J. M. Caulcott. |
Baker Street - the
library is on the corner of Baker Street and Glebedale Road
Willliam Meath Baker provided land behind the new town hall for
building a public library
The Baker family owned a large pottery business in Fenton
The impressive Fenton Library
- April 2011
Located in the vicinity of the former town hall
(now used as the Magistrates Court),
and Albert Square, it is one of the city’s most important buildings
a postcard of the Carnegie
Building c.1910
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completed in 1906 to the rear of Fenton Town Hall on a site donated by
William Meath Baker, with cost of its construction covered by a donation
from the Carnegie Trust, hence the name of the building.
Fenton Library Committee in 1907:
Library Committee.—Councillors Elliott, Shenton, Brain, Brunt, Fox, Goddard, F. S. Hughes, Lawton, Mountford, Myatt, Wain, and Twyford. Chairman, Councillor Goddard; vice-chairman, Councillor Twyford.
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Fenton Free Library
the impressive entrance to
the Library
detail of the oriel window on
the first floor
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related pages "Libraries gave us power" - each of Stoke-on-Trent’s six towns had its own public library, and each one is a major architectural statement. Lower Lane and the Baker family - Lower Lane was an area of Fenton which lay along the Newcastle-Uttoxeter road (now City Road) as it passed from Longton through to Stoke. In 1775 Lower Lane and Lane Delph were among the most populated parts of the area. also see.. Advert
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