Marton Drive Library, Blackpool

This library was my local library when I was in my 20's. I went in their fairly regularly, frequently a stop with one of the kids in the buggy. There wern't plenty of books but it had quite a goods kid's section and there was a reading room full of old codgers sheltering from the cold. It has looked like this for a couple of years now. Shame nice memories, but there just does not seem to be a future here.

The entrance to the library on Marton drive.
It is halfway between Spen Corner and the Oxford.

The boarded up entrance

THIS STONE WAS LAID BY
ALDERMAN JOHN COLLINS J.P.
MEMBER OF THE BLACKPOOL LIBRARY
AND ART GALLERY COMMITTEE
SINCE NOVEMBER 1900, AND CHAIRMAN
FROM NOVEMBER 1904 TO SEPTEMBER 1918

MAYOR ALDERMAN R.J.TOMLINSON J.P
CHAIRMAN COUNC. JOHN WHITTAKER
16TH SEPTEMBER 1931.

Circular window close up

The Fir Grove end. This is facing down Marton Drive
to the Spen Corner roundabout

Showing the rear of the building.

Another view of the Fir Grove end

From across the road