The Old Library

13 Kirk Loan

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EDINBURGH  EH12 7HD

 

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We purchased the property in August 2000 and set about restoring and refurbishing the building.  By Christmas of that year, we had completed the works to the entire ground floor and by the following February the upper floor (the former reading rooms with a high vaulted ceiling) was up and running.

 

What had begun life as an early Carnegie Library now had a new purpose - out with gas mantles and in with Cat 5!

& then ....

 

Completed in 1903 at a cost of £1,028 14s 5d.

 

The Carnegie Foundation gifted £1,000 towards the cost.

 

The new (current) library built by Edinburgh City Council opens (28th May 1936).

The "Carnegie" Library is sold for £650 to the Boy Scouts. - The Home Guard move in during the Second World War.

 

Ministry of Food use the building to store and distribute wartime Powdered Milk. - The building is first sold on the open market in 1961 after 58 years of public service.