Opening date for new Winchester library

10:57am Saturday 27th October 2012 in Winchester

Jool Heller-Dixon (centre) with colleagues at the Carroll Youth Centre in Stanmore Jool Heller-Dixon (centre) with colleagues at the Carroll Youth Centre in Stanmore

THE new library on a Winchester estate will officially open on January 21 2013.

The Stanmore Community Library at The Carroll Centre on Somers Close replaces the county council-run library on Wavell Way that fell victim to cuts this year.

Council leader Ken Thornber will officially open the library at 10.30am, before pupils from Stanmore
Primary School become the first to use the new facility.

Head of centre Jool Heller-Dixon said: "We are all looking forward to the beginning of a new chapter, to celebrate the 20th year of The Carroll Centre.”

Comments(1)

wheresthemoneygone says...
8:33pm Sat 27 Oct 12

It's good still to have a library.But now the residents are made further beholden to this church.The church originally took up valuable space on the council playing field and now they are recipients of a failed and negligent council library policy.It seems as if the middle class council are giving up the ghost in the area and the smiling,elitist, liberal church is the recipient of available funding,resources and land - what's next: reintroducing a medieval system of paying the church tithes and forced church attendance.

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