Catalogue description Records of Smethwick Library & Reading Room and its predecessor Cape Library & Reading Rooms, 1855-1877.

This record is held by Sandwell Community History and Archives Service

Details of O\SL
Reference: O\SL
Title: Records of Smethwick Library & Reading Room and its predecessor Cape Library & Reading Rooms, 1855-1877.
Description:

Catalogued April 1989
Note: "
Date: 1855-1877
Related material:

For minutes of Free Libraries Ctee see CB/S 2/7.
Held by: Sandwell Community History and Archives Service, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Smethwick Library and Reading Room

Cape Library and Reading Rooms
Subjects:
  • Smethwick, Staffordshire
Administrative / biographical background:

Historical Note

 

The first surviving minutes of Cape Library Reading Rooms are concerned with establishing classes and lectures in technical and arts subjects for working people.

 

By 1858 the Library was in financial difficulties and the following year was succeeded by Smethwick Library, alias Smethwick Library Reading Room; Smethwick Library Institute; Library, Reading Room Literary Institute.

 

Smethwick Library Committee resolved at its annual meeting in March 1877 "to transfer to the Free Libraries Committee [of Smethwick Local Board of Health] the present undertakings of the Library and Reading Room with the effects thereto belonging".
Link to NRA Record:

Have you found an error with this catalogue description?

Help with your research