Dumbarton Public Library

Image: © Lairich Rig Taken: 21 Jun 2018

For earlier pictures and for architectural information, see Image and Image See also Image, a feature incorporated in the extension (specifically, in relation to the present picture, the detail is from the right-hand side of the building). For a closer look at some other details, see Image and Image The library as an institution pre-dates this building. According to a local history factsheet, premises were first found in Heggie's Buildings (see the last part of my description of Image for comments on its location); the library later moved to a more suitable site in the William Denny Memorial Institute on Church Street, opening there in 1892. From the Denny Institute, the library would next move to its current home, the building shown in the present picture. Just inside and to the right of the entrance is a panel with information about the building: "Dumbarton Public Library This building was the gift of Andrew Carnegie LL.D. Opened 26th Sept 1910." (The factsheet just mentioned states that it opened to the public on the 30th of September 1910.) Facing that panel (inside and just to the left of the entrance) is one with a list of conveners: Dumbarton Public Library Conveners 1881 Archibald Robertson 1887 John Rankin 1891 Rev W Stevens D.D. 1901 Wm H Henderson 1913 Peter Thomson 1937 Robert McArthur 1950 Fergus Roberts 1962 I.M.M.MacPhail M.A., Ph.D. 1974 D Lynch J.P., C.Eng., D.R.T.C.

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