tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961922.post7552888388303840591..comments2024-01-26T12:57:44.871+00:00Comments on joella: Significant libraries of my life 1970-1988Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14736501243972791343noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961922.post-42182890770015192462011-02-05T00:05:13.859+00:002011-02-05T00:05:13.859+00:00Thank you Melanie, and I recommend Jonathan's ...Thank you Melanie, and I recommend Jonathan's post too, wood panelling and carrier bags in the north east... <br /><br />Spine, yes, that can be right, though more like a loooong ambulance than a Pickfords van. Look, they still have them! <br /><br />http://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/leisure/libraries/services/mobile_libraries/default.aspJohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14736501243972791343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961922.post-62521137902182972062011-02-02T23:30:20.958+00:002011-02-02T23:30:20.958+00:00Hello again Joella, I'm on the barricades with...Hello again Joella, I'm on the barricades with you and to prove it have written my own post (the starting point was my comment above) about my own Significant Libraries, it's not as good as your one but a contribution to The Cause nonethelessjonathanhttp://www.crinklybee.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961922.post-34352585536672853372011-02-02T15:15:42.778+00:002011-02-02T15:15:42.778+00:00Joella, that was lovely. Your experience of Lytham...Joella, that was lovely. Your experience of Lytham Library, in your childhood, was the same as my experience of Bridgwater (Somerset) Library, in mine! <br />I now work in a public library, and am always thrilled, every day, to see how important the public libraries are in so many people's lives. :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04579770923107408307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961922.post-63302993466694272382011-02-02T10:03:32.791+00:002011-02-02T10:03:32.791+00:00In Derbyshire a library van would come round. I re...In Derbyshire a library van would come round. I remember something the size of a Pickford's lorry that parked just outside our front gate. Can that be right?<br /><br />In Bath it was in the Guildhall, which also housed the market and its second-hand booksellers. If the Julian May I was seeking wasn't in one, it would be in the other. And the same for the tales of Thomas Covenant.Spinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17853127195976175181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961922.post-16327535416449630562011-02-02T00:44:27.085+00:002011-02-02T00:44:27.085+00:00J: Yes, it's the Branch Library that is under ...J: Yes, it's the Branch Library that is under threat. Fine buildings (or 70s prefabs) in the middle of communities. Maybe we should start a campaign round the smell thing, it might just do the trick! I used to dream of getting a job shelving books, HUGE ENVY! There were no Urdu books in Lytham, mind, just large print. Loads of Westerns, though. <br /><br />F: sorry! I made myself cry too, if Johttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14736501243972791343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961922.post-54435172814223769242011-02-02T00:15:45.413+00:002011-02-02T00:15:45.413+00:00I went to a significant public school: Harrow. It...I went to a significant public school: Harrow. It had a library. All I can remember of its contents was bound editions of Punch magazine from the nineteenth century.<br /><br />Even though many of my friends think I'm a bit of a posh boy I didn't really fit in. It was an almost hermetically sealed bubble on top of a hill and claustrophobia was inevitable. Escape was possible, but only Mileshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10414529761068217302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961922.post-59691729671726576622011-02-01T23:59:38.929+00:002011-02-01T23:59:38.929+00:00made me cry.made me cry.Fionahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17175218061091840264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961922.post-45115438623529244152011-02-01T23:27:31.231+00:002011-02-01T23:27:31.231+00:00Beautiful. Lytham library sounds very much like F...Beautiful. Lytham library sounds very much like Fenham Branch library where I spent many pre-teen hours- it had its own smell (polished wood panelling) and our books were always late back so our mam would send me or my sister down with them in a Fenwicks carrier bag in the hope that the stern assistants would peer over their high counters at our cherubic faces and let us off with the fine. Or jonathanhttp://www.crinklybee.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.com