Heritage Open Days 2005
Please note that the Working Class Movement Library in Salford, England, will be taking part in the Heritage Open Days 2005.
The library is one of the most important collections in the country of the history of the trade union and labour movement from the late c18th to the present day. It was founded in the 1950s by Ruth and Edmund Frow in their own home and since 1987 has been housed in Salford. It is now a Charitable Trust.
The library will be open for one day on Saturday 10 September from 11 am to 4 pm. There will be tours of the library including rooms not normally open to the public.
The library has a number of significant collections on the history of working women including archives from the cooperative movement, the suffragettes and suffragists, women in the labour party and the feminist movement of the 1970s. It also has a wonderful and unique banner for the Manchester and Salford Womens Trades and Labour Council, founded in 1904 by Eva Gore-Booth, Sarah Dickinson and Esther Roper.
Light refreshments (tea, coffee and biscuits)will be available. Further information www.wcml.org.uk, email:enquiries@wcml.org.uk. The library is located in Jubilee House, 51 Crescent Salford M5. Tel: 0161-736-3601.
Michael Herbert - Chair, Working Class Movement Library Trust, www.wcml.org.uk