Photographs showing the demolition of the old Roseworth Library on Redhill Road, Roseworth. The new library is now situated in Redhill Children’s Centre.
Photographs and details courtesy of Terry Westwood.
Picture Stockton Archive
A Pictorial History of Stockton-on-Tees
I loved Roseworth library and spent many happy hours reading and studying there it was my sanctuary from a a noisy family with 5 siblings of which I was the youngest. Happy days.
Loved it there in the mid sixties. I remember I asked to go up to the adults section because I’d been through the books I wanted to read. Arrived just before two every Saturday.
I recently drove through Roseworth and was shocked to see the Library has gone. I too spent happy time there in the early 60s before I moved to Newton Aycliffe in 64. Also gone are Redworth Juniors and Roseworth Seconday Modern, both of which I attended. I spent a happy early childhood in Roseworth.
Site now occupied by a Heron food outlet. When Roseworth Library first opened C1956 it had at times to operate a queue system for the children’s section until the novelty began to wear off a little. We would hover near to the counter looking for borrowers returning the ‘Famous Five’ books,all ready to ‘pounce’ for a loan.I seem to remember the first librarian at Roseworth as being a youngish man. Hardwick Estate built from the late 1950s and where I lived never managed to get a library of its own. Perhaps a sign of the changing times.
This breaks my heart! I lived in Hardwick. A large family with not a book in the house. I spent many happy hours in Roseworth Library. All my friends went to university… I am always proud to say “I was educated at Roseworth library”… So sad.
Is this going to be a grocers out-let?
Herons are supposed to be the ones.