We walked from Parkhead Carnegie (#2 of our #ScottishCarnegies) back into town, and lo, up came a certain football stadium
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But elsewhere the £10k is presumed to be the whole cost, then the £27k is a partial contribution? It’s not listed on any other listing of #ScottishCarnegies - maybe @carnegieendowment.org can adjudicate?
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Ooh, that’s interesting - which one is it? Can you send photos after your visit? We can add it to our #ScottishCarnegies series!
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Have you ever explored any #ScottishCarnegies @scottishinsider.org ? Loads of fascinating architectural and heritage features!
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Inverurie Carnegie Library #9 in our wee tour of #ScottishCarnegies - a tad grey and uninspiring compared to the red or blond sandstone, the curves and ovals of so many of the 2,500 others!
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Rather unusual (very) late entry to our wee series of #ScottishCarnegies from @sarahblackhypno.com
A very grey (breeze block?) Inverurie Carnegie Library, Aberdeenshire.
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A wee and special addition to our #ScottishCarnegies tour was this mystery statue in the basement of Blackness Carnegie Library - what is it, who does it depict, what to do with it?
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Searching for the real @erincampbell234.bsky.social @erincampi.bsky.social - who wrote this fabulous #ScottishCarnegies story?
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Lovely wee blog on #ScottishCarnegies by @erincampbell234.bsky.social with loads of anecdotes and references!
womenslibrary.org.uk/2021/09/13/c...
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Lovely piece on #ScottishCarnegies by @rachelbowen.bsky.social for @historicscotland.bsky.social well worth a wee read:
blog.historicenvironment.scot/2021/09/carn...
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Are these fabulous #ScottishCarnegies in your constituency @michaeljmarra.bsky.social ?
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Lovely designs for some #ScottishCarnegies mostly in Dundee - all of which were implemented!
Note the tiny car depicted outside Blackness Library. Some great architecture…
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One of my favourites - encouraging staff, great facilities, delightful architecture and heritage!
#ScottishCarnegies
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The piece de resistance - Edinburgh’s Central Carnegie Library, still a thriving free public library as Andrew Carnegie envisaged when he endowed 2,500 across the world.
‘Palaces of Learning’, ‘Centres of Democracy’ he dubbed his elegant gifts.
#7in our tour of #ScottishCarnegies
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We’re in Stirling on our wee series of #ScottishCarnegies, another fine example #6 of elegant architecture, fine features and a great story!
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Amongst all the architectural features, heritage and physical beauty of our #ScottishCarnegies series, the quality and sensitivity of the staff stands out.
Here a librarian helping a young borrower feel valued: ‘the youth are the architects of tomorrow’s world’ as Carnegie said!
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Mystery entry #5 in our #ScottishCarnegies series - is Broughty Ferry Library a Carnegie?
Some characteristic features, same period, no wastage; but some listings include it, others don’t!
Who can adjudicate please?
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The remarkable Coldside Carnegie Library in Dundee, #5 in our search for #ScottishCarnegies.
Huge concave frontage, dramatic red colouring, high ceilings, elegant double staircase - a classic ‘palace of learning’ in an area of need as Carnegie intended!
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Oops! Forgot Langside Library, so we've 6. The last of the Carnegie-funded south #Glasgow libraries & opened in 1915. It's currently closed for repairs & refurb but has this amazing historic mural inside depicting the Battle of Langside #GlasgowCarnegies #ScottishCarnegies bsky.app/profile/walk...
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With the 2024 reopening of Elder Park Library #Govan south #Glasgow has 5 of these gems still intact from their heyday~ 3 still being public libraries & 2 with new purposes✨♻️ #adaptivereuse #CarnegieLibraries #ScottishCarnegies #GlasgowCarnegies @carnegieoldpark.bsky.social sghet.com/project/sout...
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If it's one of the #ScottishCarnegies per day, that'll be 10 days of #IrishCarnegies on tour visiting #Glasgow, aka 10 days of pure bliss🥰 www.glasgowlife.org.uk/libraries/fa... Of the city's original 14 #CarnegieLibraries 10 are intact as libraries or with new purposes...📚💡 bsky.app/profile/carn...
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Arbroath #4 on our tour of #ScottishCarnegies on a wild and stormy day. Solid statue of Robert Burns, elegant planting, cute features - popular as a wedding venue!
One of 2,500 libraries endowed by Andrew Carnegie.
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The formidable Arthurstone (East End) Carnegie Library the first in Dundee; #3 on our tour of #ScottishCarnegies - huge building opened in 1905 by Louise Carnegie on land donated by a wealthy Perth Road woman (near our #2 Blackness).
Part of a package Carnegie gave Dundee
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Inside Blackness Carnegie Library Dundee built in ‘butterfly’ shape on a commanding triangular site overlooking the Tay Rail Bridge - plaque to the philanthropy, lovely leaded windows, elegant oval reading room upstairs. #ScottishCarnegies
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We visited the fabulous Blackness Carnegie Library in Dundee part of our #ScottishCarnegies tour #2, unusually in upmarket part of the city on Perth Road by the merchants’ houses (Carnegie prioritised deprived areas for his ‘palaces of learning’). He endowed 2,500 libraries.
More tomorrow!
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First entry in our series of #ScottishCarnegies #1 after the popular #IrishCarnegies is Maybole Carnegie Library, South Ayrshire.
Started in 1905 to a band playing apparently, famous for its beauty, fabulous doorway, and billiards table! Still a thriving library and community hub
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