Building    From 1894 

Willesden Library

Categories: Museums / Libraries

The newly built up Willesden area was provided with a library, completed in 1894. It was extended at the back in 1907, part funded by Andrew Carnegie.

The whole back section was rebuilt with additional facilities, such as a cinema, and opened in 1989. Following a contentious period when the library might have been closed completely, it was rebuilt as the white-tiled structure you can see behind the little Tudorbethan original in our photo; opened in 2015.

Wikipedia has photos of the different manifestations of this library. Kilburn Times is good on the Victorian community engagement that led to this library, and the campaign to save it. The Architects Journal mainly covers the current building itself.

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Willesden Library

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Willesden Library - 1894

Willesden Green Library was established in 1894 following a poll of the ratep...

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F. W. Clifford

F. W. Clifford

District Officer in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District, 1920-1942. Officer in the Order of St John. Nature, No. 3806, 10 October 1942 carries Clifford's obituary. At the time of his sud...

Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Museums / Libraries, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Victoria & Albert Museum

Victoria & Albert Museum

The South Kensington Museum opened on this site in 1857. It expanded and was renamed the Victoria & Albert Museum in 1899. A further expansion by Aston Webb opened in 1909. Also see Francis Fow...

Building, Museums / Libraries

4 memorials
University of Ulster Trans-Gender Archive

University of Ulster Trans-Gender Archive

Founded by Richard Ekins at the University of Ulster. The Archive ceased its connection with the University of Ulster in July 2010, when Richard Ekins became Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Cul...

Group, Gender Issues, Museums / Libraries

1 memorial
Frederick Horniman

Frederick Horniman

Tea merchant, benefactor and politician. Born Frederick John Horniman at Bridgwater, Somerset. He inherited his father's tea business, which by 1891 was described as the biggest tea firm in the wor...

Person, Benefactor, Commerce, Museums / Libraries, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, India, Sri Lanka

3 memorials
British Empire Exhibition

British Empire Exhibition

The exhibition was held in Wembley Park. It was a showcase of aspects of many of the British colonies at the time. It had 18 million visitors in 1924, but failed to break even. The main stadium was...

Event, Museums / Libraries

1 memorial

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Rev. T. W. Fowle

Rev. T. W. Fowle

Active in 1864.

Person, Religion

1 memorial
C. L. Williams

C. L. Williams

Name on one of the main panels of the East Ham WW1 memorial.

Person

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
C. F. Gipson

C. F. Gipson

Name on one of the main panels of the East Ham WW1 memorial.

Person

War dead, WW1
1 memorial