BANES are celebrating 100 years of the Bath library. There is a page they have put together about it. This is what they said about Radstock.
Radstock is the oldest public lending library in what is now Bath and North East Somerset. It began life in 1897 as a reading room and library in the newly built Victoria Hall, and was made a public library under the Libraries Acts on 11th July 1904.
Control of expenditure on stock was very tight – in 1910 Radstock Council gave the library special permission to buy the complete works of Dickens, which was seen as an important but extravagant purchase.
Radstock was the main library for the area and in 1973 moved into a purpose-designed, architectural award-winning building, where it has stayed ever since.
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| Radstock Library |
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| The original location. Now a Dance college. In the old days my Dad told me they used to have the day's papers but they used to black out horse racing pages. |
