Brief description
In 1903 when the Aston Manor Urban District Council was created, a site on the main road from Birmingham into Aston was chosen for Aston Cross Library. The building was a statement of the district’s new status. The land was donated by nearby Ansells Brewery and the building paid for by Carnegie.
Current status: No longer a public library, current status unknown, but maybe used as flats (2017)
- Year grant given (if known):
- Amount of grant:
- Year opened (and by who – if known): 30 October 1903, by Alderman Edward Ansell
Photo of library today (2017):
Photo credit: Zoe – on this blog post
Details:
Photo credit: Zoe – on this blog post
Old photo of library (postcard):
Nothing in my collection yet
Visited?
Not yet
Web links:
- Entry on the Birmingham placenames gazetteer
- Blog post by Zoe: Playing by the book – Ghost libraries < contains some wonderfully evocative photos of former libraries, and the author kindly allowed me to reuse them here.
The Carnegie legacy in England and Wales 