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Abergavenny Library, Gwent, 1906, Architect: B.J. Francis, open library

Aberystwyth Library, Dyfed, Ceredigion, 1906, Architect: Walter G. Payton, re-purposed: unknown

Bangor Public Library, Gwynedd, 1907, Architects: Dixon & Potter, open library

Barry Library, Vale of Glamorgan, 1906, Architects: Charles Edward Hutchinson and A. H. Payne, re-purposed: office

Beoley carnegie reading room, Bromsgrove, 1905, Architect: William Frederick Edwards, village hall and reading room: community centre

Bethnal Green Library, London, Tower Hamlets, 1922, Architect: James Tolley, open library

Birmingham - Bartley Green Library, Birmingham, 1905, Architect: William Frederick Edwards, open library

Birmingham - Erdington Library, Birmingham, 1907, Architect: John P. Osborne, open library

Birmingham - Kings Heath (Moseley) Library, Birmingham , 1906, Architect: Arthur Gilbey Latham, open library

Birmingham - Kings Norton Library, Birmingham, 1906, Architect: Benjamin Bower, open library

Birmingham - Rednal and Rubery Reading Room, Birmingham, 1909, NA Benjamin Bower, re-purposed: residential

Birmingham - Selly Oak Library, Birmingham, 1906, Architect: John P. Osborne, closed Library

Birmingham - Stirchley Library, Birmingham, 1907, Architect: John P. Osborne, open library

Boston Library, Lincolnshire, 1905, Architect: James Rowell, re-purposed: office

Bridgend Library, Bridgend, 1907, Architect: P.J. Thomas, re-purposed: arts centre

Brynmawr Library, Blaenau Gwent, 1905, Architect: Francis Ross Bates, re-purposed: museum

Buckley Library (Town Council), Flintshire, 1904, Designed by: R. Cecil Davies (District Surveyor), re-purposed: studio

Cardiff - Canton Library, Cardiff, 1907, Architect: Edwin Montgomery Bruce Vaughan, open library

Cardiff - Cathays Library, Cardiff, 1907, Architects: Speir & Bevan, open library

Cardiff - Whitchurch Library, Cardiff, 1904, Architects: R & S Williams, open librar

Chelmsford Public Library, Chelmsford, 1906, Architects: Frederic Chancellor & Son, re-purposed: housing association

Coedfranc Carnegie Hall (ex) Skewen Libray (Carnegie Hall), Neath, 1905, Architect: J. Cook Rees, coming back: community centre

Coedpeth Bersham, Wrexham, 1904, Architect: William Moss, re-purposed: office

Colwyn Bay Library, Conwy, 1905, Architects: JM Porter and Mr Hunter, open library

Costessey Library, Norfolk, 1907, Architects: Postle and Webster, re-purposed: residential

Coventry - Earlsdon Library, Coventry, 1913, Designed by: J.E. Swindlehurst (City Engineer and Surveyor), open library

Coventry - Foleshill Library, Coventry, 1913, Designed by: J.E. Swindlehurst (City Engineer and Surveyor), open library

Coventry - Stoke Library, Coventry, 1913, Designed by: J.E. Swindlehurst (City Engineer and Surveyor), open library

Criccieth Library, Gwynedd, 1905, Designed by: Rowland Lloyd-Jones (County Architect), re-purposed: office

Deiniolen Carnegie Library, Gwynedd, 1914, Architect: Albert Henry Fennell (Fennell and Baddiley), re-purposed: residential

Derby - Normanton Branch (Pear Tree) Library, Derby, 1916, Architect: Charles Bakewell Sherwin, closed Library: empty

Dolgellau Mill Street Free Library, Gwynedd, 1912, Architect: Edmund Auguste Fermaud, re-purposed: community centre

Dudley - Brierley Hill Free Library and Technical Institute, Dudley, 1903, Designed by: L.J. Harper (Town Surveyor), closed Library: empty

Fenton Library, Staffordshire, 1906, Architect: F.R. Lawson, closed Library: empty

Flint Library (Town Hall), Flintshire, 1903, Architect: John Welsh (original building), re-purposed: office

Ganarew Monmouthshire Library, 1911, Monmouthshire, Extension

Grantham Museum, Lincolnshire, 1926, Designed by: Gilbert A. Ballard (Borough Surveyor), re-purposed: museum

Great Holland Hall, Essex, 1909, village hall and institute

Huthwaite Library, Nottinghamshire, 1913, Architect: Ernest W. Bostock, open library

Ilkeston Library, Erewash, 1904, Architects: Hunter and Woodhouse, open library

Ipswich County Library, Ipswich, 1924, Architect: Henry Munro Cautley, open library

Irchester Library, Northhamptonshire, 1909, Architects: Edward Sharman & Archer, open library

Kettering Library, Northhamptonshire, 1904, Architects: J. Goddard, A.H. Paget & W.A. Catlow, open library

King's Lynn Library, Norfolk, 1905, Architect: Herbert John Green, open library

Leicester Central Library, Leicester, 1905, Architect: Edward Burgess, open library

Lincoln Central Library, Linconshire, 1914, Architect: Sir Reginald Theodore Blomfield, open library

Llandudno Library, Conwy, 1910, Architect: George Alfred Humphreys, open library

Llantwit Fardre Library, Rhondda Cynon Taf, 1906, Architect: Arthur Lloyd Thomas, village hall and reading room: community centre

Long Eaton Library, Derbyshire, 1906, Architects: Child, Gorman and Ross, open library: office

Loughborough Library, Leicestershire, 1905, Architects: Barrowcliff & Allcock, open library

Malvern Library, Worcestershire, 1906, Architect: Henry Arthur Crouch, open library

Mansfield Library 1 central + branch, Mansfield, 1905, Architects: Ernest R. Sutton and F.W. Gregory, re-purposed: office

Melton Mowbray Library, Leicestershire, 1905, Architect: Edmund Jeeves, re-purposed: museum

Merthyr Tydfil - Aberfan, Merthyr Tydfil, 1910, Designed by: T.F Harvey (Borough Surveyor), re-purposed: village hall

Merthyr Tydfil Central Library, Merthyr Tydfil, 1936, Architects: Johnson Richards and Rees, open library

Merthyr Tydfil - Dowlais Library, Merthyr Tydfil, 1907, Architect: E. A. Johnson, open library

Merthyr Tydfil - Treharris Library, Merthyr Tydfil, 1909, Architect: William Dowdeswell, open library

Merthyr Tydfil - Troedyrhiw Free Library, Merthyr Tydfil, 1903, Designed by: T.F Harvey (Borough Surveyor), re-purposed: unknown

Newport Carnegie Library, Newport, 1907, Designed by: C.T. Ward (Borough Architect), closed Library: empty

Northamptonshire Central Library, Northhamptonshire, 1910, Architect: Herbert Norman, open library

Nottingham - Basford Branch Library Nottingham Journal - Tuesday 24 August 1915, Nottingham, 1926, Architects: Ernest R. Sutton & Sons, open library

Nottingham - Bulwell Northern Branch Library Nottingham Journal - Tuesday 24 August 1915, Nottingham, 1923, Architects: Bright & Thoms, closed Library: empty

Nottingham - Carlton Library, Nottingham, 1906, Designed by: J.C. Haller (County Surveyor), open library

Nottingham - Meadows Southern Branch Library, Nottingham, 1925, Designed by: Arthur Dale City Engineer's Office), open library

Nottingham - Radford Lenton Library, Nottingham, 1926, Designed by: T.Wallis Gordon (City Engineer), open library

Peatling Magna, Harborough, 1912, Designed by: Willam Shapland Cowper (Surveyor), village hall and reading room

Penarth Library, Vale of Glamorgan, 1905, Architect: Harry Snell, open library

Peterborough Library, Peterborough, 1905, Architects: Alfred George Hall & John Henry Arthur Phillips, re-purposed: restaurant

Pleasley Hill Library (Branch of Mansfield), Mansfield, 1907, Architect: John Goodacre, re-purposed: residential

Pleasley (Verney Institute), Derbyshire, 1906, Architects: Parker and Unwin, village hall

Pontypool Library, Torfaen, 1908, Architects: Speir & Bevan, open library

Port Talbot Margam Taibach Community Library, Community Library, Neath Port Talbot, 1916, Designed by: John Cox (District Surveyor), open library

Rhyl Carnegie Free Library (Rhyl Town Hall), Debinghshire, 1907, Designed by: A.A. Goodall (Town Surveyor), re-purposed: office

Rogerstone Library, Newport, 1905, Architects: Alfred Swash & John Bain, open library

Rothwell Library, Northamptonshire, 1905, Architect: John Alfred Gotch, re-purposed: museum

Rushden Library, Northamptonshire, 1905, Designed by: William Beresford Madin (Town Surveyor), open library

Sandwell - Blackheath Library (Rowley Regis), Sandwell, 1909, Architects: Herbert Winkler Wills and John Anderson, re-purposed: nursery

Sandwell - Cradley Heath Library (Rowley Regis), Sandwell, 1909, Architects: Herbert Winkler Wills and John Anderson, open library

Sandwell - Dudley Library, Sandwell, 1909, Architect: George H. Wenyon, open library

Sandwell - Langley Green Library (Oldbury & Langley), Sandwell, 1909, Architect: Abel Round, open library

Sandwell - Wednesbury Library, Sandwell, 1908, Architects: Crouch Butler and Savage, open library

Sandwell - West Bromwich Central Library, Sandwell, 1907, Architect: Stephen James Holliday, open library

Southend Library, Southend-on-Sea, 1906, Architect: Henry Thomas Hare, re-purposed: museum

St Albans Carnegie Library, Hertfordshire, 1911, Architect: Francis Guilford Waddell-Dudley, re-purposed: restaurant

Stafford, Staffordshire, 1914, Architects: Briggs Wolstenholme & Thornely, closed Library: empty

Stamford Library, Lincolnshire, 1906, Architects: Alfred George Hall & John Henry Arthur Phillips, open library

Stapleford Library, Nottingham , 1906, Architect: R. Smith, re-purposed: community centre

Stisted Institute near Braintree, Braintree, 1909, institute

Stourbridge Library, West Midlands, 1906, Designed by: Frederick Woodward (Council surveyor), re-purposed: residential

Stratford-upon-Avon Library, Warwickshire, 1903, Architect: Edward Gibbs Holtom, open library

Tamworth Central Library, Staffordshire, 1905, Architect: Ernest Robert Danford, re-purposed: community centre

Tipton library (with Toll End), West Midlands, 1906, Architect: George H. Wenyon, re-purposed: office

Trecynon Public Hall and Library, Rhondda Cynon Taf, 1903, Architect: C. H. Elford, re-purposed: community centre

Walsall Central Library, West Midlands, 1906, Architect: James Glen Sivewright Gibson, open library

Wellington Carnegie, Shropshire, 1904, closed Library: empty

Wolverhampton Library, Wolverhampton, 1902, Architect: Henry Thomas Hare, open library

Wrexham Carnegie Library, Wrexham, 1907, Architect: Vernon Hodge, re-purposed: office

Wythall Reading Room, Birmingham, 1906, village hall and institute