Carnegie Oldpark Library

Really positive listing, ironically, of endangered crafts - searching for new specialists! @heritagecrafts.bsky.social
@quintinoliver.bsky.social spoke for us!

Fascinating event yesterday at @themacbelfast.bsky.social by @heritagecrafts.bsky.social on skills, techniques and heritage outcomes!

Spectacular edifice - beautiful location, superb content, lovely gardens

Loving this art cube in The Hague - where could we locate one?

For whom? With what? By when? How?

Our beautiful sandstone Belfast Coat of Arms ‘Pro Tanto Quid Retribuamus’ over our front door, and the colourful City Hall carpet version!

Who knows the heraldic features?

Set in beautiful city centre gardens - great for staff and visitors

Beautiful modern extension with superb library in Andrew Carnegie’s Peace Palace in The Hague!
@library.cmu.edu

Carnegie’s timing was unfortunate in his efforts to prevent WWl - but the spectacular building remains a powerful legacy now occupied by @icjp.bsky.social

Spectacular edifice - beautiful location, superb content, lovely gardens

The fabulous @peacepalace.bsky.social in The Hague that Andrew Carnegie gifted to try to prevent WWl - now used by @icjp.bsky.social

Getting close!

Both beautiful in their different ways!

We’re off to The Hague to see the Carnegie Peace Palace which Andrew Carnegie endowed in an effort to prevent WWl
@carnegieendowment.org
@carnegiemec.bsky.social

Our beautiful sandstone Belfast Coat of Arms ‘Pro Tanto Quid Retribuamus’ over our front door, and the colourful City Hall carpet version!

Who knows the heraldic features?

This work was facilitated by our #greatplacenorthbelfast cluster of heritage assets across north Belfast!

Before and after, then and now!

Carnegie Oldpark Library a century ago, and today with our new night floodlighting

Shines a light on heritage (literally!).

#BackToLife

Tell us your story!

Our Carnegie counterpart in Manchester the @levyoldlibrary.bsky.social boasts Sir Norman Foster as a child borrower - who passed through our doors?

Let us know how it affected you! Memories? Change…

We went to Dromore Linen Festival - lots of learning for our proposed Carnegie Centre for Weaving!

Flax, retting, scutching, spinning, weaving; every aspect of linen production.

I used to work there at @stratagemni.bsky.social now called @connectparanormal.bsky.social

The elegant Carnegie Library on Donegall Road - one of three in Belfast (Falls Road, still a library, and ours in the third sector).
This one in private hands, let out as offices.
Carnegie liked hills - I want people to walk up to the enlightenment.
It’s still called ‘Library Hill’!

Always a joy to visit Clifton House Belfast to share and learn #GreatPlaceNorthBelfast

D’oh… haven’t we known this since even before Andrew Carnegie gifted 2,500 free public libraries to the world!

We went to Dromore Linen Festival - lots of learning for our proposed Carnegie Centre for Weaving!

Flax, retting, scutching, spinning, weaving; every aspect of linen production.

One of many recollections of using our library back in the day!
Such an influence on so many young borrowers’ development.
We’ll bring this special place #BackToLife as ‘The Carnegie Centre for Weaving’

A grand weekend thanks to Love Heritage NI and 100+ visitors!

Bookmarks were woven, Carnegie tours were given, linen was admired, weavers were questioned… a perfect open day.

Thanks to our volunteers and guests.

Elegant elephant at @gohbeloved.bsky.social

Multi generation learning - love it!

A grand weekend thanks to Love Heritage NI and 100+ visitors!

Bookmarks were woven, Carnegie tours were given, linen was admired, weavers were questioned… a perfect open day.

Thanks to our volunteers and guests.

Yesterday @quintinoliver.bsky.social launches the #LoveHeritageNI day of weaving, Carnegie tours, exhibitions and loads of shared learning!
Thanks everyone!

Wow!
What a lovely bookmark woven by this young weaver today at our #LoveHeritageNI open day.