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Liverpool City Central Libraries

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The library is located in several adjoining historic buildings on William Brown Street. Previous to the creation of this public library was England's first subscription library (1758-1942), latterly known as The Lyceum, Liverpool, but often referred to as the Liverpool Library

Its first building was the William Brown Library and Museum building which was completed in 1860 to the designs of John Grey Weightman and which it has always shared with the city's museum, now known as World Museum Liverpool. The library was then extended further to the right with the addition in 1879 of the Picton Reading Room and to the rear with the Hornby Library in 1906. 82060922
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