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Amongst the donations promised at the Lambeth Palace
Meeting was one from Frederick Nettlefold, Esq., of £1000
towards the establishment of a Library at Norwood. A piece of
Freehold Land was purchased at Norwood, in Knight's Hill Road,
opposite St. Luke's Church, and the purchase-money (£1050) was
paid by Mr. Nettlefold. Plans for the building were at once
prepared by Mr. Sidney Smith, an architect living in Lambeth;
a contract for the erection of the building entered into with
Messrs. Higgs; and, after considerable progress had been
made in the foundations and ground floor of the building, the
first stone was formally laid by Mr. Nettlefold on the 26th of
November, 1887. At the end of the Vestry's year the building
is practically completed. The cost of the building will be,
it is expected, a little over £4000, which will be defrayed partly
out of the Rate and partly through Donations promised at the
Lambeth Palace Meeting.
A Library had for some time been opened in South Lambeth,
in a private house in the South Lambeth Road, the books having
been contributed by Mr. Caine, M.P., and Mr. Henry Jephson.
These books were generously handed over by them to the Commissioners,
and the Library was taken over by the Commissioners
in the summer of 1887, Mr. Jephson agreeing to pay the rent of
the house to Christmas, 1887. Henry Tate, Esq., of Streatham,
paid £1150 for the purchase of a Freehold Site in the South
Lambeth Road for a permanent Library, and he has also agreed
to provide the entire cost of the erection of a handsome building
suitable for a Library. The contract for the building and fittings
will, it is expected, amount to about £4800, bringing up Mr.
Tate's gift to £6000.
A third Library has been provided, through the generosity of
Miss Durning Smith (a sister-in-law of Mr. Edwin Lawrence,
one of the Commissioners). She originally offered to give