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Description: | A part of Slough's first purpose-built library, on William Street. The building is now used for an Age Concern Day Centre.
By the outbreak of the Second World War there was a public demand for a larger and better service. Slough's newest and first purpose-built library was opened in William Street. It is now the home for Slough's Age Concern Day Centre. The unfinished library was opened on 8 December 1939, though the population had to wait until after the end of the war before the dedicated children's library was fully opened.
For the first time the library was not run by volunteers and honorary librarians, but by a team of three full-time library professionals. The stock flourished to 14,000 in a town that had grown to over 64,000 people.
The end of the Second World War brought greater demands to the service, With the opening of the large housing estates in Langley, Britwell and Wexham during the 1950's, Slough became the largest growing industrial town in southern England. This brought new libraries and new services to those living away from the town centre. The mobile library service began in 1958 and Langley Library was opened in 1964.
The number of books and services at the William Street Library was also expanding, and by the 1960s the building was far too small to hold them. In 1974 it was closed and replaced by a bigger library. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Subjects: | Public libraries ; Age Concern ; Old Library ; Slough Library | Temporal: | start=1938-01-01; end=1965-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | G. H. Greville | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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