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Libraries

Cambridgeshire Libraries

  • c.1800s-1970s: posters, photographs and historical information on the library service.
  • 1974-2000: copies of minutes of meetings, reviews, reports, newsletters and statistics.

Held at Peterborough Central Library.

Peterborough City Council Library Services

  • 1984-c.1990: photographs illustrating library service events.
  • 1990s: files relating to different services offered by Peterborough libraries.

Held at Peterborough Central Library.

Peterborough Central Library (public library)

  • 1891-1973: Minutes of meetings and sub-committee minutes.
  • 1905-1991: files relating to proposed library plans and library history.
  • 1988-c.1993: photographs illustrating the construction and official opening of the new Central Library.
  • 1905-1926: stock books.
  • 1926-1949: accessions registers.
  • 1938-1954: applications and loans register.

Held at Peterborough Central Library.

Printed source:

'Libraries and Reading Rooms in Peterborough and the early history (1892-1952) of the Public Library Service' by Richard Hillier, in, Peterborough Museum Society Proceedings 1991-2000, pp15

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