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BOROUGH OF HAMMERSMITH.
Public Libraries Memoranda.
1887. 7th December.—The Public Libraries Acts were adopted.
1887. 21st December.—The first Commissioners were appointed.
1889. 15th January.—The first Librarian was appointed.
1889. 12th August.—The Reading Rooms at Ravenscourt Park
were opened.
1890. 19th March. The Public Library, Ravenscourt Park, was
opened by Sir John Lubbock (Lord Avebury).
1891. 18th July. The land upon which the Passmore Edwards
Library stands was presented to the Library Commissioners
by the Homage Jury of the Manor of Fulham, and the
Ecclesiastical Commissioners.
1895 13th March.—Mr. J. Passmore Edwards intimated his
intention to present a Library Building to Hammersmith.
1895. 8th April.—The ratepayers voted the maximum Library
Rate of One Penny in the £.
1895. July-—The foundation stone of the Library was laid by
Mr. J. Passmore Edwards.
1896. 25th June.—The Passmore Edwards Library was opened
by the Rt. Hon. Lord Rosebery.
1896. 29th September.—The powers and duties of the Library
Commissioners were taken over by the late Vestry.
1896. 16th December.—Mr. J. Passmore Edwards unveiled the
bronze medallion portrait of Charles Keene, presented to the
Shepherd's Bush Library by the Keene Memorial Committee.
1897. 28th October.—Mr. A. G. Fletcher unveiled the bronze
medallion portrait of Leigh Hunt, presented to the Shepherd's
Bush Library by Mr. J. Passmore Edwards.
1899. 22nd April.—The Rev. Prebendary Snowden, M.A.,
Chairman of the late Vestry, opened the Reading Room and
Delivery Station at Letchford Gardens, College Park.
1902. 1st January.—The Temporary Reading Room, Brook Green
Road, was opened by Councillor T. G. Hodgson, Vice-Chairman
of the Libraries Committee.
1902. 11th July.—Dr. Andrew Carnegie offered to give £10,000 to
erect a new Central Library.
1904. 5th May.—The Mayor (Alderman Charles Pascall, J.P.)
laid the foundation stone of the Carnegie Library.
1905. 24th July.—His Grace the Duke of Argyll, K.T., declared
the Carnegie Library open.