| Elderpark Library | ||||
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| This library was
built by Lady Elder and gifted to the city in 1903. Situated in its own
park (Elder Park), it is, in some ways, the most beautiful
library building in the city. It was intended to provide access to
learning and scholarship to the workers of the nearby Govan shipyards
and perfectly fits with the Glasgow tradition of the autodidact. One of
the original conditions of the gift was that it should be open on a
Sunday. It does not open on a Sunday now, but here we see one of the
Saturday nightshift finishing his book and waiting for the library to
open on a blazing Sunday morning. This painting can currently be viewed at the Park Gallery, 697 Pollokshaws Road. |
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