On going through the main entrance I recall that immediately on the right was the reading room containing all of the days newspapers and that the children’s library was immediately on the left.
Photograph and details courtesy of Cliff Thornton.
Picture Stockton Archive
A Pictorial History of Stockton-on-Tees
I went work in the library straight from school learning how to use a telephone and the Dewey classification system. I remember Joyce Chesney and her spray that she used to use on the newspaper readers. Fred Leighton was the chief librarian. I later went to work in the new building.
My wife before marriage was a librarian there and working in the Reference Room and Reading Room. This was in the early 60’s.