A Good Home Needed Urgently for One of the Most Significant Libraries of Housing and Planning in the Country

The trustees of the Octavia Hill Birthplace Museum are disposing of its Harry Simpson Memorial Library in September, next month. The collection comprises the largest discrete library dedicated to housing and planning. The museum is located in Wisbech in the north of Cambridgeshire. If your institution may be interested to receive the whole collection please get in touch as soon as possible. If you may be in a position to contribute to sharing costs to store the library short-term prior to a longer-term initiative, please get in touch to discuss. Please see below for further information. David Mountain david.mountain@manchester.ac.uk The ‘Harry Simpson Memorial Library’ was established in 1996 as the ‘first library at an educational establishment devoted solely to housing’. It was housed at the University of Westminster, but this arrangement ended when funding from the Chartered Institute of Housing stopped in 2005. At that point, the library moved to the premises of a very small…