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  • The Llandudno Free Library was officially opened on 13 September 1910 by Lord Mostyn.
Llandudno Free Library opening ceremony, 1910
  • The building was officially opened in 1895. The ground floor housed a library, newspaper room, magazine room, recreation room, billiard room and committee rooms. The room above was used for concerts, bazaars and political meetings.
Blaenavon Workmen's Hall and Institute
  • Samuel Thomas, the founding father of Penarth Library is receiving the keys to the Reading Rooms.
The opening of Cogan Reading Rooms, Harriet Street, 1902
  • A picture postcard of the Free Library with the 'Owen Memorial' wing in Newtown, Montgomeryshire which was opened in 1903. The pioneering social reformer Robert Owen, who was born in Newtown, fought for better conditions and access to education for working people.
Newtown Free Library, 1903
  • The front page of a rather worn leaflet issued in 1900 by the Llanidloes Workingmen's Institute and Library, which was established in the town in 1871. This names those holding official posts connected with the Institute, which was housed in the upper floor of the Old Market Hall from 1897 until 1908.
Llanidloes Workingmen's Institute leaflet, 1900, front page
  • The Old Market Hall in Llanidloes on a postcard from the early 1900s, when the upper storey housed the Workingmen's Institute and Library. The Institute, including a lending library of 1,600 books, was based there from 1897 to 1908. The ancient building is a rare survivor of a type of structure once found in the centre of most market towns.
Market Hall, Llanidloes, c. 1903