Angela Glansbury 🚽Spellow Hub is back open
with a few hundred mates you could borrow the entire lending stock of this tiny library
The libraries could get books even cheaper if they shame the suppliers into waiving their profits 😸
Anyway photies. and sorry to link to twitter.
https://x.com/lpoolcouncil/status/1821615044762722770
You can see in this video the burned books, furniture and glass have been cleared out of the entranceway. the charred paint has been taken off the ceiling. The tipped over mobile shelving has been propped back up and it looks like there are lots of intact books. I feared more books than those just in the entranceway were used to build the fire, so this is good news. I have seen no video of inside the children's library yet.
It might still be the damage is worse than it looks, I haven't heard the results of a structural survey.
Liverpool City Council (@lpoolcouncil) on X
“Seeing people destroy their own community made me want to do something.” 🌟 Superstar fundraiser @alexlouisemc talks about her ever-growing Go Fund Me campaign: https://t.co/tSCO4dgFzY For any offers of support or book donations, please email: [email protected]
Tim Stickland#Liverpool
#Spellow
In a difficult week - this gives me hope.
(I've always loved Liverpool.)
JdeBPI hope that there are as equal good news stories in your area as that library.
JdeBP (@[email protected])
@[email protected] @AuldFoggerty @[email protected] If you like the good news stories, about people banding together in response to the criminal gangs, that have come out of this, you might also enjoy reading about all of the people who have offered donations to restock the #Spellow Library. https://liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/huge-fundraiser-fire-hit-library-29678099 #UKPolitics #Liverpool
The blow-by-blow court reporting is here:
https://liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/live-updates-first-men-appear-29677455
@ThePsyOfLife @AuldFoggerty @bytebro
If you like the good news stories, about people banding together in response to the criminal gangs, that have come out of this, you might also enjoy reading about all of the people who have offered donations to restock the #Spellow Library.
https://liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/huge-fundraiser-fire-hit-library-29678099
Two people, same surname, same street of residence, aged 22 and 27, the younger found inside carrying a computer monitor and the elder outside apparently acting as a lookout, have both pleaded guilty to charges of burglary of the #Spellow Library this morning, says the Liverpool Echo. The elder one had "16 previous convictions for 26 offences, including robbery and burglary".
This is not "political protest".
https://liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/burglar-who-targeted-spellow-library-29678657
https://liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/man-caught-inside-spellow-library-29679395
Really, that's a false equivalence.
The Nazi students who burned books targetted as many copies of specific books that they could get their hands on.
The English criminal gangs who set alight a library were doing plain old arson and theft. Not ideology of any sort; purely criminal opportunism.
Evidence of this is that (per the same #ReachPLC Liverpool Echo, anyway) two 20-somethings have already pleaded guilty to burglary of the #Spellow Library.