Our volunteer Head Gardener @jac-wac.bsky.social and her sister start work assessing our yard, planters, fencing and sunshine needs! Good luck you two!

Our volunteer Head Gardener @jac-wac.bsky.social and her sister start work assessing our yard, planters, fencing and sunshine needs! Good luck you two!

The splendid Govanhill Carnegie library (1904) #10 in our survey of #GlasgowCarnegies a fine edifice in sandstone supporting the community. Rhind designed, Carnegie endowed, beautifully carved and domed. A beacon of enlightenment in tougher times 120 years ago - still a busy library

What a day we enjoyed @imaginebelfast.bsky.social weaving bookmarks with ace tutor Drea Dickson and learning about Carnegie’s philanthropy. Thanks everyone. We’ll be #BacktoLofe soon.

We’re open today for @imaginebelfast.bsky.social for a tour at 10.30 and weaving class!

Last chance to book for tomorrow at 10.30! Bring your children, bring your creativity.

The splendid Govanhill Carnegie library (1904) #10 in our survey of #GlasgowCarnegies a fine edifice in sandstone supporting the community. Rhind designed, Carnegie endowed, beautifully carved and domed. A beacon of enlightenment in tougher times 120 years ago - still a busy library

Correction: a community campaign stopped the 2021 closure and restored library services! We stand corrected.

Series of #GlasgowCarnegies #9 takes us to Maryhill, a fine library edifice (1905) squished between two tenement blocks, opposite the more grandiose and ornamented @maryhillburghhalls.bsky.social Unfortunately another Carnegie abandoned by the public sector in 2021, seeking alternative users.

Weave ur own bookmark! Saturday from 10.30 in Belfast @imaginebelfast.bsky.social imaginebelfast.com/event/bookma...

Carnegie Library #8 in our series of #GlasgowCarnegies is Hutchesontown (1906) in the Gorbals. Drawing by Gerald Blaikie, architects James Rhind - abandoned as library 1964. Looks empty! Anyone know more? @sghetorg.bsky.social

Weave your own bookmark in Belfast! @imaginebelfast.bsky.social imaginebelfast.com/event/bookma...

“A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people” Andrew Carnegie once opined. “It is a never failing spring in the desert.” Certainly true of our #GlasgowCarnegies series #7, from Maryhill to Langside (behind me!) via Bridgeton and Pollokshields.

Langside Carnegie Library is #7 in our series of #GlasgowCarnegies - the last to be completed (with extra funds from the donor) in 1915. Sadly invisible to our visitors as it’s enveloped in netted scaffolding for refurbishment by @glasgowlive.co.uk workers were enthusiastic! @sghetorg.bsky.social

Langside Carnegie Library is #7 in our series of #GlasgowCarnegies - the last to be completed (with extra funds from the donor) in 1915. Sadly invisible to our visitors as it’s enveloped in netted scaffolding for refurbishment by @glasgowlive.co.uk workers were enthusiastic! @sghetorg.bsky.social

#5 As well as gifting us the #TonySmithLoom Rachel Smith showed us examples of his beautiful work - our weavers were mightily impressed. The loom is up, the Carnegie Centre for Weaving is on its way to bring us #BacktoLife!

The new loom is in! #3 Gifted from Whitley Bay, transported across the Irish Sea, delivered to north Belfast, now just to reassemble it as donor Tony Smith has instructed! #TonySmithLoom

The spectacular Pollokshields Library #6 in our series of #GlasgowCarnegies; double fronted, two stories, fine red sandstone in Edwardian Baroque (1907). Buzzing with mums and toddlers, buggies, readers and enthusiastic helpful staff. Opened by local John Stirling Maxwell

The new loom is up! #4 in #TonySmithLoom thread (pun intended) Tony Smith and daughter Rachel have gifted a tapestry loom for our Carnegie Centre for Weaving. It has crossed the choppy Irish Sea from Whitley Bay, been delivered to North Belfast and is now reassembled in our upstairs studio

The new loom has arrived in Belfast from Whitley Bay! #2 #TonySmithLoom The gift from Tony Smith and his daughter @rachelsmith71 is an amazingly generous gift for our Carnegie Centre for Weaving. Now to bring it #BacktoLife…

New loom! Thanks to Tony in Yorkshire and Rachel Smith in Belfast, we’ve been gifted the family tapestry loom for our weaving centre. Amazing generosity. Here Tony weaves his last material, before disassembling and packing it up for the choppy Irish Sea crossing. #1 in the #TonySmithLoom story

Weave your own bookmark in Belfast! @imaginebelfast.bsky.social imaginebelfast.com/event/bookma...

The spectacular Pollokshields Library #6 in our series of #GlasgowCarnegies; double fronted, two stories, fine red sandstone in Edwardian Baroque (1907). Buzzing with mums and toddlers, buggies, readers and enthusiastic helpful staff. Opened by local John Stirling Maxwell

The wonderful Armagh Robinson Library- stunning architecture, uplifting setting, spectacular book collection (inc Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels original), art and maps, helpful staff and fine views of Cathedral. ‘Healing place of the soul’ inscribed above the door in Greek.

We visited the spectacular @armaghrhymers.bsky.social Armagh Robinson Library, a lovely quiet space, with stunning architecture, beautiful art, generous staff and its own unusual cataloguing system (by size, not author nor subject!) Another fine heritage asset in good care.

What will happen to Springburn Carnegie Library, one of 13 #GlasgowCarnegies endowed by Andrew Carnegie 120 years ago as ‘palaces of learning’? @dennistounstyle.bsky.social @sghetorg.bsky.social @gwsfhs.org.uk

Wanna be a weaver? @imaginebelfast.bsky.social can help! imaginebelfast.com/event/bookma...

Super group of @thenationallottery.bsky.social guests - childhood borrowers, social historians, artists and from overseas. Happy to learn our history, absorb our heritage and enthusiastically support our #BacktoLife efforts as the Carnegie Centre for Weaving. Even a wedding venue suggested!

Wanna be a weaver? @imaginebelfast.bsky.social can help! imaginebelfast.com/event/bookma...

Dundee Evening Telegraph, 23 Oct 1900, says Isabella Elder gave £25K. (Some descriptions of the opening in 1903 also give her the credit for funding it, even though Carnegie opened it.)

Helpful additional info! Thanks.

Weaving class! Saturday 28th March @imaginebelfast.bsky.social imaginebelfast.com/event/bookma...

#GlasgowCarnegies #5 is Kingston Halls the first Glaswegian Carnegie Library in 1904, designed by Robert Horn in Edwardian Baroque for library, community and police station use - what an unusual mixture - we’re surprised that AC agreed! Now used as homeless hostel by The Talbot Association

I went today as I toured several #GlasgowCarnegies - all wrapped up but buzzing with excited (and Carnegie-knowledgeable) construction workers!

The amazing Elder Park library, in Govan #4 in our series of #GlasgowCarnegies. Funded by Isabella Elder (who earlier gifted the 28-acre park) and Andrew Carnegie in a rare double act (usually he acted alone), built in 1903, in the then Burgh of Govan, separate from Glasgow. So, is it Carnegie?

#3 in our series of #GlasgowCarnegies is Woodside Library (1905), a superlative example of James Robert Rhind’s fine architecture for Glasgow Corporation after Andrew Carnegie donated his first £100,000 for ten buildings (later upped to £120k) - to be ‘Palaces of Learning’ for working people.

We walked from Parkhead Carnegie (#2 of our #ScottishCarnegies) back into town, and lo, up came a certain football stadium

Elegant well-proportioned Dumfries Locharbriggs red sandstone @gwsfhs.org.uk

Second up in our #GlasgowCarnegies #2 is the beautiful domed, sculpted Parkhead Carnegie (1906), again by seven-time Carnegie architect James Rhind who won the 1901 contest for the role, as Andrew donated £100k for free public libraries in working class areas.

What’s your favourite?

First in our series of #GlasgowCarnegies is Dennistoun (1905 by architect Rhind) a working library that’s seen better times; beautiful carvings and proportions. Just off Duke St, well used and loved.

Our bookmark weaving classes are flying - happy students, creative outputs! Next tour Thursday 12th March at 10.00 @tnlcommunityfund.org.uk

Student weavers at work crafting their colourful bookmarks for @northbelfast100 under expert tuition - see their beautiful work tomorrow! #BacktoLife

We’ve had a blast visiting nine (or ten - watch the arguments coming up) #GlasgowCarnegies in a whirlwind weekend of library- bagging! Here are just four to start…

Manor Hall is probably referring to what is now the Ebenezer Gospel Hall, and The Vicarage to what is now the Vine Centre, formerly a Presbyterian space, I’m told. Any fresh info?

Another supporter shows their #BacktoLife intent! Tours on Saturday 28th - see @looknorthbelfast.bsky.social programme