Carnegie Oldpark Library
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An abandoned heritage asset amongst the jagged peace lines of North Belfast - support our #BackToLife efforts!
Multiple thanks to @dovecote.bsky.social Edinburgh, for sharing their story and role model of operating a fabulous Weaving Hall alongside associated facilities, classes, heritage, exhibitions and sales!
December 5, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Multiple thanks to @dovecote.bsky.social Edinburgh, for sharing their story and role model of operating a fabulous Weaving Hall alongside associated facilities, classes, heritage, exhibitions and sales!
Our friends @dovecote.bsky.social in Edinburgh have their version of #ArachnesWeb on their staircase - beautiful woven swirling colours!
#BacktoLife
#BacktoLife
December 4, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Our friends @dovecote.bsky.social in Edinburgh have their version of #ArachnesWeb on their staircase - beautiful woven swirling colours!
#BacktoLife
#BacktoLife
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Instructive tour of @DovecotStudios Edinburgh in our search for role models for our ’Carnegie Centre for Weaving’.
Traditional skills preserved alongside exhibition, sales, classes and heritage.
Forward-looking, creative and inspiring.
Thanks to staff and volunteers.
Traditional skills preserved alongside exhibition, sales, classes and heritage.
Forward-looking, creative and inspiring.
Thanks to staff and volunteers.
December 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Instructive tour of @DovecotStudios Edinburgh in our search for role models for our ’Carnegie Centre for Weaving’.
Traditional skills preserved alongside exhibition, sales, classes and heritage.
Forward-looking, creative and inspiring.
Thanks to staff and volunteers.
Traditional skills preserved alongside exhibition, sales, classes and heritage.
Forward-looking, creative and inspiring.
Thanks to staff and volunteers.
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A fine portrait by a woman artist
December 1, 2025 at 11:45 AM
A fine portrait by a woman artist
Instructive tour of @DovecotStudios Edinburgh in our search for role models for our ’Carnegie Centre for Weaving’.
Traditional skills preserved alongside exhibition, sales, classes and heritage.
Forward-looking, creative and inspiring.
Thanks to staff and volunteers.
Traditional skills preserved alongside exhibition, sales, classes and heritage.
Forward-looking, creative and inspiring.
Thanks to staff and volunteers.
December 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Instructive tour of @DovecotStudios Edinburgh in our search for role models for our ’Carnegie Centre for Weaving’.
Traditional skills preserved alongside exhibition, sales, classes and heritage.
Forward-looking, creative and inspiring.
Thanks to staff and volunteers.
Traditional skills preserved alongside exhibition, sales, classes and heritage.
Forward-looking, creative and inspiring.
Thanks to staff and volunteers.
The old man himself, on show in the beautifully restored National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh with its extraordinary ornate lobby area.
December 1, 2025 at 10:23 AM
The old man himself, on show in the beautifully restored National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh with its extraordinary ornate lobby area.
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Interesting challenge with the old swimming pool chimney looming overhead!
But beautifully brought #BacktiLife
But beautifully brought #BacktiLife
Visiting our soon-to-be new friends @dovecote.bsky.social Edinburgh to learn about their phenomenally successful weaving operation - exhibition, sales, display, classes, workshops, heritage!
November 29, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Interesting challenge with the old swimming pool chimney looming overhead!
But beautifully brought #BacktiLife
But beautifully brought #BacktiLife
The spectacular weaving hall (formerly a swimming pool!) @dovecote.bsky.social Edinburgh where heritage and traditional skills help build a creative future!
It’ll undoubtedly support our #BacktoLife efforts.
It’ll undoubtedly support our #BacktoLife efforts.
November 29, 2025 at 9:55 AM
The spectacular weaving hall (formerly a swimming pool!) @dovecote.bsky.social Edinburgh where heritage and traditional skills help build a creative future!
It’ll undoubtedly support our #BacktoLife efforts.
It’ll undoubtedly support our #BacktoLife efforts.
Visiting our soon-to-be new friends @dovecote.bsky.social Edinburgh to learn about their phenomenally successful weaving operation - exhibition, sales, display, classes, workshops, heritage!
November 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Visiting our soon-to-be new friends @dovecote.bsky.social Edinburgh to learn about their phenomenally successful weaving operation - exhibition, sales, display, classes, workshops, heritage!
We’re in Edinburgh today to see this Carnegie picture!
Andrew Carnegie, 1835 – 1919. Ironmaster and philanthropist by Catherine Ouless | National Galleries of Scotland
Andrew Carnegie was 12 when he left Dunfermline and immigrated with his family to the United States of America. Successful investments in businesses connected with railways enabled him to co–found the...
www.nationalgalleries.org
November 27, 2025 at 10:58 AM
We’re in Edinburgh today to see this Carnegie picture!
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Fabulous wee Carnegie cartoon!
Andrew Carnegie’s Free Public Library Philanthropy | Libraries | Carnegie Corporation of New York
Born in Scotland, Andrew Carnegie made libraries and books available to millions of people and helped accelerate the free public library movement in America. A new comic highlights Carnegie’s library ...
www.carnegie.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Fabulous wee Carnegie cartoon!
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What a creative way in to the Carnegie story!
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November 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
What a creative way in to the Carnegie story!
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@carnegieendowment.org
@cmu.edu
@carnegiecorp.bsky.social
@carnegieendowment.org
@cmu.edu
Fabulous wee Carnegie cartoon!
Andrew Carnegie’s Free Public Library Philanthropy | Libraries | Carnegie Corporation of New York
Born in Scotland, Andrew Carnegie made libraries and books available to millions of people and helped accelerate the free public library movement in America. A new comic highlights Carnegie’s library ...
www.carnegie.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Fabulous wee Carnegie cartoon!
Coffee break for our weavers a-weaving in our Weavers’ Studio in Oldpark, North Belfast.
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November 25, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Coffee break for our weavers a-weaving in our Weavers’ Studio in Oldpark, North Belfast.
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Poor Derry-Londonderry missed out on this fabulous free Carnegie Library 120 years ago!
The Council voted AGAINST the proffered gift.
The Council voted AGAINST the proffered gift.
November 22, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Poor Derry-Londonderry missed out on this fabulous free Carnegie Library 120 years ago!
The Council voted AGAINST the proffered gift.
The Council voted AGAINST the proffered gift.
Neat comparison of us in real life, and the original architect’s drawings from 1906!
November 21, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Neat comparison of us in real life, and the original architect’s drawings from 1906!
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Lovely inaugural blog from Chair of our Trustees, Brian Cavanagh - intriguing backstory story from Fife, Edinburgh, Cooley and now Carnegie!
Across the Narrow Sea – early reflections by Chair of Trustees Brian J. Cavanagh on our #BackToLife project
Three months ago, if someone had predicted that I would be the interim chair of the Carnegie Oldpark Library trustees in North Belfast, I would have riposted ‘unlikely’; if they had then explained …
carnegieoldpark.org
November 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Lovely inaugural blog from Chair of our Trustees, Brian Cavanagh - intriguing backstory story from Fife, Edinburgh, Cooley and now Carnegie!
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Interesting story here about the role of weavers in organising themselves and standing up for their rights!
Lovely inaugural blog from Chair of our Trustees, Brian Cavanagh - intriguing backstory story from Fife, Edinburgh, Cooley and now Carnegie!
Across the Narrow Sea – early reflections by Chair of Trustees Brian J. Cavanagh on our #BackToLife project
Three months ago, if someone had predicted that I would be the interim chair of the Carnegie Oldpark Library trustees in North Belfast, I would have riposted ‘unlikely’; if they had then explained …
carnegieoldpark.org
November 20, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Interesting story here about the role of weavers in organising themselves and standing up for their rights!
Lovely inaugural blog from Chair of our Trustees, Brian Cavanagh - intriguing backstory story from Fife, Edinburgh, Cooley and now Carnegie!
Across the Narrow Sea – early reflections by Chair of Trustees Brian J. Cavanagh on our #BackToLife project
Three months ago, if someone had predicted that I would be the interim chair of the Carnegie Oldpark Library trustees in North Belfast, I would have riposted ‘unlikely’; if they had then explained …
carnegieoldpark.org
November 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Lovely inaugural blog from Chair of our Trustees, Brian Cavanagh - intriguing backstory story from Fife, Edinburgh, Cooley and now Carnegie!
Our story about #HerneHillCarnegie was premature!
A kind follower has updated us with photos
It survived the threat of closure and is now #BacktoLife again, flourishing indeed:
Library, community hub, cafe, garden, classes and more.
Congratulations everyone - heritage is a living dynamic.
A kind follower has updated us with photos
It survived the threat of closure and is now #BacktoLife again, flourishing indeed:
Library, community hub, cafe, garden, classes and more.
Congratulations everyone - heritage is a living dynamic.
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Our story about #HerneHillCarnegie was premature!
A kind follower has updated us with photos
It survived the threat of closure and is now #BacktoLife again, flourishing indeed:
Library, community hub, cafe, garden, classes and more.
Congratulations everyone - heritage is a living dynamic.
A kind follower has updated us with photos
It survived the threat of closure and is now #BacktoLife again, flourishing indeed:
Library, community hub, cafe, garden, classes and more.
Congratulations everyone - heritage is a living dynamic.
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We’re going to Edinburgh to learn more about Andrew Carnegie and his remarkable philanthropic legacy!
Andrew Carnegie, 1835 – 1919. Ironmaster and philanthropist by Catherine Ouless | National Galleries of Scotland
Andrew Carnegie was 12 when he left Dunfermline and immigrated with his family to the United States of America. Successful investments in businesses connected with railways enabled him to co–found the...
www.nationalgalleries.org
November 5, 2025 at 7:51 AM
We’re going to Edinburgh to learn more about Andrew Carnegie and his remarkable philanthropic legacy!
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Another #CarnegieLibrary in trouble?
Lambeth, London
@lampallib.bsky.social @librariesconnected.bsky.social
Lambeth, London
@lampallib.bsky.social @librariesconnected.bsky.social
The Carnegie Library Hub is at a difficult juncture and is likely to close by December 2024
Over the last years we have developed a lively and diversified community hub and have worked hard to get everything in place to open a community cafe and lounge that will further develop the Hub. Howe...
carnegielibraryhub.org.uk
November 14, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Another #CarnegieLibrary in trouble?
Lambeth, London
@lampallib.bsky.social @librariesconnected.bsky.social
Lambeth, London
@lampallib.bsky.social @librariesconnected.bsky.social