You might have heard elsewhere earlier today – Hoylake Library has not been saved and will close. I’ve previously mentioned the closure of our local library here and then here. I’m sure those locals who tried to keep the facility open will be disappointed though probably not too surprised.
Read this BBC report that says much the same about the closure.
My wife and I are ex-pats. Very sad news about the closure (I have to declare that my wife has worked in our local library down south for the last 10 years). Fortunately our local library is built on a site donated by a benefactor who covenanted that the site should only be used for a public library.
I remember in the ’50s that the current Hoylake Library site was a field next door to the old Kingsway Cinema (now a super market?). The Kingsway had a car park on the back half of the field (not many of us had cars so it was not too busy).
The current library moved to the Kingsway site from the Town Hall where a small side door led to a rather cramped little library, but I do remember the little swing doors you had to barge through to get in and out and the permanent smell of Johnsons Wax which hung about the place.