FACTORY & WORKPLACE LIBRARIES

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ALLENDALE nob Allenmill Smelting Works Society 1845?

Accounts & Papers. 1852-53. Education. 1854. Based on 1851 Census.

ALLENDALE nob Carshield Library 1845?

Accounts & Papers. 1852-53. Education. 1854. Based on 1851 Census.

ALLENHEADS nob Miners' Library 1840?

1851 Census.

BALLYKILBEG ant Ballykilbeg Lending Library 1845? [? Johnston]

A free library for his tenants. Ballykilbeg Newspaper, 1 December, 1846. Adams, Popular Culture, 128. Adams collection (whereabouts?)

BANNOCKBURN sti Bannockburn Colliery Library 1828

Stirling Journal, 28 August, 1828.

BERTRAM SHOTTS lak Ironworks Library 1825?

The New Statistical Account of Scotland, 1845. Vol. VI, p. 633 - "a large and excellent assortment of books".

BLACKBURN lan Bank Foundry & Highfield Mill Athenaeum 1845?

Listed in Bagshaw's Directory of Derbyshire, 1846.

BRYANSFORD ant Lord Roden's Lending Library 1836? [Lord Roden]

A library for his tenants. B.W. Noel, Notes of a short Tour, 1837. Adams, Popular Culture, 128.

CHORLTON lan Factory Library 1845 [W. & D. Morris]

Listed in Bagshaw's Directory of Derbyshire, 1846.

CRUACHEN abe Cruachen Library 1800?

A subscription library for miners. A. Thornton, Sporting Tour, 1804.

FERRYHILL dur Colliery Library & Literary Institute 1845?

J.W. Hudson, History of Adult Education, 1851. Accounts & Papers. 1852-53. Education. 1854. Based on 1851 Census.

GILFORD ant Dunbar, McMaster's Library 1840? [Dunbar, McMaster & Co]

Founded by Hugh Dunbar in his mill. Northern Whig, 26 December, 1840. Adams, Popular Culture, 128.

GLAMIS for Glamis Mill Library 1831

300 vols. by 1836 - The New Statistical Account of Scotland, 1845. Vol. XI, p. 348.

GLASGOW lak Gas Workmen's Library 1821

Subscription library for gas workers. Rules 1822 (NL Scotland).

GLASGOW lak Gillespie's Cotton Mill Library 1790?

Scots Chronicle, 30 December, 1796.

KILLYLEAGH dow Martin's Mill Library 1840? [John Martin]

A mill library. Northern Whig, 30 April, 1840. Adams, Popular Culture, 127.

KILMADOCK per Deanston Works 1825?

The New Statistical Account of Scotland, 1845. Vol. X, p. 1242.

LONDON msx Hitchcock & Rogers 1845?

Linen Drapers. J.W. Hudson, History of Adult Education, 1851.

LONDON msx Sewell & Co. 1840?

Linen Drapers. J.W. Hudson, History of Adult Education, 1851.

LONDON msx Swan & Edgard 1845?

Linen Drapers. J.W. Hudson, History of Adult Education, 1851.

MIDDLETON-IN-TEESDALE dur London Lead Company's Circulating Library 1820? [London Lead Company]

Hunt's Directory, 1827. For employees.

NEWHOUSE dur Miner's Library 1845?

Accounts & Papers. 1852-53. Education. 1854. Based on 1851 Census.

NEWTON edi Colliery Circulating Library 1800?

- 1833. New Statistical Account, 1845. Vol. I, p. 582.

ROTHESAY but Cotton Mills Library 1796?

Scots Chronicle, 25 October, 1796.

TORBOLTON ayr Crawfordston Colliery 1820?

The New Statistical Account of Scotland, 1845. Vol. V, p. 763.

TRIMDON GRANGE dur Colliery News & Reading Room 1840?

1851 Census.

 

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