TV VET AND ‘OLDEST USER’ OPEN NEW KILBURN LIBRARY

25/04/2006

What: Library user Cynthia Brown and celebrity Joe Inglis officially open Kilburn Library
Where: 12-22 Kilburn High Road, NW6
When: 11.00am, 29 April 2006
Media contact at the event: David Jones on 07770 964327

One of Kilburn Library’s most loyal members will take part in its official reopening on 29 April. Cynthia Brown, a sprightly 74 year old and a regular at the old library for almost 50 years, will mark the opening of the new library by being the first customer through the door.

While the name remains the same, the library is in a new location and offers a range of extra community facilities.

Camden Council has invested around £1.5m in the new Kilburn Library building on Kilburn High Road. It opened its doors to the public for the first time on Tuesday, 25 April.

The new facility has everything the old Kilburn Library building, on Cotleigh Road, had - and more. As well as a library, the new building has a children’s library, learning centre and youth centre.

A day of events including music, story-telling, IT demonstrations and a comedian is planned for Saturday, 29 April, to mark the project’s completion. As well as Camden resident Cynthia, TV vet and author Joe Inglis, who starred in BBC 1’s ‘Vets in Practice’, will also make an appearance. At midday, Cynthia will cut a cake to mark the opening of the library.

Cynthia, originally from mid-Glamorgan said: “I have lived within walking distance of the old library for nearly 50 years and have really been looking forward to the new library opening. My favourite books are by Rosamunde Pilcher and Bernice Rubens and I think talking books are marvellous. Although I’m not keen on autobiography or romances I will try almost anything and if I persevere I always find something of interest.”

Camden Council’s Assistant Director of Culture, Fiona Dean, said: “The new Kilburn Library is in the right place, delivers more services and is open for longer than the old building; and Cotleigh Road has been retained for use by the community.”

The new library covers three levels of an eight-storey building. As well as the main library, there is a learning centre with a classroom, study area and forty computers. Kilburn Youth Centre operates Kilburn Resource Centre, based on the lower ground floor, that includes an advice centre, interview rooms, sexual health suite and recording studio.

The former home of the library on Cotleigh Road was not handy for public transport and was further from the centre of Kilburn. The new building is more accessible, on busy Kilburn High Road, and closer to transport links and local shops. The library will open five days a week instead of three and the old Cotleigh Road building will be used by the West Hampstead Women’s Association.

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