Former Passmore Edwards Library, Burgess Park

Image: © Jim Osley Taken: 22 Feb 2017

The building: Part of a multi-purpose building designed by the architect Maurice Binghan Adams. Other functions included a public baths and wash-house. The building is Grade II listed, and described at this https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1386038. The library closed in 1991 and is currently occupied by an arts centre run by Theatre Delicatessen - http://theatredelicatessen.co.uk/old-library/a-new-h/. A fuller view of the building at http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2726256. The architect: "Maurice Bingham Adams was born in 1849. He was educated in Sussex and worked in two large building firms in Brighton from May 1865 to April 1866 prior to being articled to Horatio Nelson Goulty of Brighton in February 1867. He worked as assistant to Sir William Emerson and to Thomas Maynard, Parish Surveyor, and was clerk of works and architect to Philip Causton Lockwood, Borough Surveyor of Brighton, from 1870 to 1872. He commenced independent practice in 1873 and was admitted ARIBA in 1876, by which time he had moved to London. He was elevated to FRIBA in 1886. Adams served as Architect to Brighton Borough Council and as Honorary Architect to Chiswick Charity Trustees. He was on the staff of 'Building News' from 1872 until his retirement in 1923. He died on 17 August 1933." - Quoted from this http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=206069.

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