The Working Class Movement Library will again be taking part in the national Heritage Open Day scheme on Saturday 9 September 11am to 4pm.
The library is a unique national collection of the history of working people, especially the radical, labour and trade union movement. It was started in their own home in the 1950s by Ruth and Edmund Frow who personally collected many of the books and archives. It begins in the 1770s with the radical writer Thomas Paine and goes up to the present day. Friends of the library include Christopher Eccleston, Maxine Peake, Siobhan Redmond, Arnold Wesker, Alan Plater and Stuart Macconie.
The library is now housed on the Crescent where it fills 40 rooms in a former Edwardian nurses home.
Visitors will be taken on tours of the collection and be able to see rooms normally closed to the public.
The Heritage Open Days scheme is organised by English Heritage and the Civic Trust, [url]http://www.heritageopendays.org.uk/[/url]
The WCML is situated at 51 Crescent, Salford. Tel 016-736-3601.
Email: [mailto]enquiries@wcml.org.uk[/mailto].
[url]http://www.wcml.org.uk[/url]