Preston, Lancashire Harris Art Gallery & Museum 1977

Postcard

 

• Picture / Image:  Harris Art Gallery and Museum, Preston - shows street with a mini car and people
• Publisher:  Dennis (P.2424)
• Postally used:  yes
• Stamp:  7p Machin definitive
• Postmark(s):  Lancashire 16 Sep 1977 wavy line
• Sent to:  Ashburnham Road, Cline Vale, Hastings, East Sussex
• Notes & Key words: 

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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The Harris Museum, Art Gallery & Preston Free Public Library is a Grade I listed museum building in Preston and has the largest gallery space in Lancashire, England.

In the 19th century, a Public Library boom hit the United Kingdom. The town of Preston wanted a grand museum and library for its inhabitants. Since 1850, locals had held fund-raising events to get enough money to build a Museum and Public Library. In 1877, a Preston lawyer called Edmund Robert Harris, finally made the dream of Preston into a reality. He left the Preston Council with a sum of £300,000. In 1879, the first library of Preston was set up in the Town Hall basement, while a museum was set up to house the Dr Shepherd Collection on Cross Street. The popularity of this made the City council to make a purpose built building to house the Public Library and Museum. Work started on the museum in 1882 and it officially opened in 1893.