We have a letter box! Now receiving post to 46 Oldpark Road as we come #BacktoLife.

We’ll have to open up a new hashtag for #MichiganCarnegies thanks to our keen follower Chris Bendsen (once of this parish) who spotted this wee gem… More info to follow!

The fabulous Riddel’s Warehouse, Belfast by Hearth Historic Buildings Trust for 50th anniversary of @archhfund.org.uk Heritage Foundation. Intriguing pop-up exhibition (open late tonight) and great celebration of heritage for the future!

Always a smile from @quintinoliver.bsky.social when going for coffee at The Bobbin Cafe by @belfastcc.bsky.social since Andrew Carnegie himself started as a ‘Bobbin Boy’ in Dunfermline!

Our new best friend Rachel Smith exploring our Weavers’ Studio with a view to donating her family loom - what excitement and generosity!

Imaginative people make creative plans for our #BacktoLife challenges! With our trustees, staff, volunteers and owners at Lower Oldpark Community Association (photo credit, too!)

We went to see @BelfastStories in the old @bankofireland building - beautiful art deco features, aspirations and plans for a fabulous attraction!

The good ship COLA (Carnegie Oldpark Library Association) takes to the seas to navigate our #BacktoLife journey - plan ahead or you’ll end up where you’re headed!

The good ship COLA (Carnegie Oldpark Library Association) takes to the seas to navigate our #BacktoLife journey - plan ahead or you’ll end up where you’re headed!

Love to see grown adults crawling about the floor, drawing with crayons and lifting the roof with creativity! #BacktoLife in so many productive ways

Isn’t strategic planning great! The exciting, interactive, engagement of trustees and volunteers at work on our #BacktoLife journey.

Isn’t strategic planning great! The exciting, interactive, engagement of trustees and volunteers at work on our #BacktoLife journey.

How it all started - and is continuing #9 in our #BacktoLife series. Our Weavers’ Studio now buzzing with the clatter of shuttles, the chatter of visitors and mutual learning!

Our #BacktoLife bible - the #IrishCarnegies by Brendan Grimes of @ucddublin guides us on architecture, history, heritage and the people who brought Carnegie’s radical dreams to life!

How it all started #8 in our history series! Filming our first weaver spinning her yarn for her table loom (front). Now a thriving Weavers’ Studio

How it all started #7 Our first weaver’s loom takes its place in our ‘Juveniles’ Room’ in 2021.

How it all started #7 Our first weaver’s loom takes its place in our ‘Juveniles’ Room’ in 2021.

How it started #6 in our #BacktoLife series. Neighbours talk to our first weaver in her Weavers’ Studio, formerly the Juveniles’ Room when we were a library!

How it all started #5 Balletic brushing of the Weavers’ Studio, now buzzing and clattering with looms and shuttles! #BacktoLife

How it all started #4 in our #BacktoLife efforts. Brendan Grimes’s fabulous masterpiece on #IrishCarnegies in our then empty Weavers’ Studio - Carnegie himself was a Bobbin Boy!

How it started #3 in our #BacktoLife Weaver’s (now Weavers plural!) Studio. Expert advice from skilled crafters and textile specialists helped us hugely!

How it all started! Our first weaver’s loom takes its place in our ‘Juveniles’ Room’ in 2021.

Feel for this sign writer - easy done!

Oh dear! Edinburgh Airport seems to have forgotten spellcheck in its upgrade of this fantastic Carneg(g)ie quotation to welcome visitors?

The public art at Girdwood, our neighbouring community centre, learning hub and sports facility… @howtoenjoybelfast.bsky.social

The amazing @peacepalace.bsky.social endowed by Andrew Carnegie in an effort to prevent WWl in The Hague now occupied by International Court of Justice in paint and in real life!

Great to see people buzzing about our abandoned old library again after 15 years closure! #BacktoLife indeed

Preparing for springtime growth in our planters #BacktoLife indeed

We’re somewhere here in the patchwork tapestry of the north Belfast geo-politics. #SpotCarnegie

Our Chair Brian Cavanagh with his companion piece to @quintinoliver.bsky.social yesterday

Our @quintinoliver.bsky.social explains how he bought a library one day… and is now bringing it #BacktoLife

Reindeer, Santa, Mayor - what else do you need!

Great fun with Santa and reindeer - and our Mayor - at Carnegie yesterday. #BacktoLife indeed.

Our Ethan (Project Mgr) extends his skillset to cover Job Description task 33: ‘any other reasonable duties including reindeer herding’?

Another great example of a ‘stitch in time’. Heritage assets need continuous maintenance to avoid bigger problems later! This leak started as a pinprick… but we’ll be #BacktoLife soon.

Always looking good in the winter sun - and prepping for ‘Christmas at Carnegie’! #BacktoLife

Our wonderful @belfastcc sandstone Coat of Arms in the warm winter sun - and a bonus gargoyle too! @greatplacebooks.bsky.social

Our wonderful @belfastcc sandstone Coat of Arms in the warm winter sun - and a bonus gargoyle too! @greatplacebooks.bsky.social

Here is our sandstone @belfastcc Coat of Arms and our gargoyle!

Lots of weaving learning Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum the centre of history and traditions in this field… Floor looms, Jacquard looms, table looms (pictured), lap looms, hand looms - every variety imaginable! @irishlinen.bsky.social

Always looking good in the winter sun - and prepping for ‘Christmas at Carnegie’! #BacktoLife

Lots of weaving learning Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum the centre of history and traditions in this field… Floor looms, Jacquard looms, table looms (pictured), lap looms, hand looms - every variety imaginable! @irishlinen.bsky.social

Great wee exhibition @goldenthreadni.bsky.social Belfast - free, accessible and interesting

Bookmark weaving! Simple, creative, colourful - new uses from traditional skills. Carnegie Centre for Weaving #BacktoLife

One of the great delights of our work is giving guests ‘hard hat’ tours, with us sharing Carnegie’s story, alongside our future plans, and them teaching us about their skills and interests! #BacktoLife

Our hard hat tours have been fascinating for guests finding memories of earlier library (or youth club) use, and for us to learn about the best future #BacktoLife uses

One of the great delights of our work is giving guests ‘hard hat’ tours, with us sharing Carnegie’s story, alongside our future plans, and them teaching us about their skills and interests! #BacktoLife

Great ideas! @carnegiecorp.bsky.social @carnegieendowment.org

Great ideas! @carnegiecorp.bsky.social