Ludlow Library

Opening hours

Monday 9.30 to 5
Tuesday 9.30 to 5
Wednesday 9.30 to 5
Thursday Closed
Friday 9.30 to 7.30
Saturday 9 to 5

Facilities

The Ludlow Library and Museum Resource Centre is situated at the end of Parkway off Corve Street, with a large public car park accessible from Upper Galdeford and Station Drive. Disabled parking and provision for bicycles is available adjacent to the entrance. For a location map, please follow the link to ShropMap.

Ludlow Library is part of the South Shropshire Library Area, the group headquarters for Church Stretton, Bishop's Castle, Cleobury Mortimer and Craven Arms Libraries and the base for the Ludlow Mobile Library. A copy of a leaflet outlining service provided can be downloaded or opened online from the link on this page. You can also find a copy of the community profile for this library, which includes an indication of how well this library is performing. Comments about Ludlow Library can be found on a separate page.

The library offers a full range of services:

• adult and junior fiction and non fiction
• an important Local Studies Collection covering South Shropshire and North Herefordshire
• CDs, DVDs, videos and talking books on tape and CD
• eight People's Network computers with free access to the Internet
• wireless Internet access
• photocopier (black and white)
• telefax
• study space
• leaflets
• a meeting and exhibition room to accommodate around 50 people is shared with the museum service

Events and activities

Poetry Place

The library is a Poetry Place and a partner in the Poetry Cafe at the Ludlow Assembly Rooms.Meetings take place on the first Wednesday of every month, in the snug bar of the Assembly Rooms from 7.30pm. Read and enjoy poetry. Follow the link on this page for further details about the Assembly Rooms.

Friends of Ludlow Library

There is an active Friends group who support Ludlow Library. Follow the link on this page for further information.

Rhyme times

Baby Rhyme Time sessions in the Library will take place on the first Tuesday of each month at 10.30am. Parents with babies unborn, newly born and crawling welcome.

Help with homework

Ludlow Homework Club offers free homework and revision help from trained staff on Fridays 4pm to 6pm and Saturdays 10am to 12 noon. Homework Clubs also run competitions, holiday programmes, special events and projects all year round. For more details follow the link on this page.

Reading group

A reading group meets on the first Tuesday of every month at 2.30pm. New members are always welcome.

Local History Research Group

Interested in your family’s history in Ludlow? Curious about the story of your house? Or just find local history fascinating? The Ludlow Historical Research Group in partnership with the Ludlow Library & Museum Resource Centre and with Shropshire Archives, has launched a local history advice service. This is held in Ludlow Library each Tuesday from 2.30 to 4.30pm throughout the year apart from the main holidays. Two members of the Group will be on hand each week to give advice on how to go about finding answers to questions on local history and family history relating to Ludlow and the immediate area. Material available for use includes the local history collection in the library – books on Ludlow, the local 19th. century censuses, local newspapers on microfilm. Free public access onto the Internet to access national archive material. Also available are the archives which the Research group has assembled. Appointments can be made to ensure that a member of the Group with the relevant expertise is available to deal with your question. Please contact the library for this service. Further details of the group can be found by following the link on this page via The Local Heritage Initiative Site website.

Ludlow Library Writers Group

The group meets in the library at 7.30pm on the third Thursday of each month. New members welcome. For further information please contact the library.

Other events

Talks, exhibitions and events are being planned with the Museum service in the shared Meeting Room. For a full list of events taking place in Ludlow Library, and other libraries in the South Shropshire area, please follow the link from this page.

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