About This Venue

Portobello Library is a public library in the centre of Portobello, Edinburgh.

The current building in Rosefield Place was opened on 11 October 1963 by Lord Provost Duncan M. Weatherstone with a stock of 26,000 books and eight staff. The previous accommodation in the Old Town Hall, which later served as Portobello Police Station, was considered unfit for purpose and was criticized for being dirty, dark and overcrowded.

Opened in 1897, the year after Portobello was formally incorporated into the City of Edinburgh, the library service is the joint-second oldest in Edinburgh (after Central Library (1890) and joint with Western (Dundee Street) Library (1897).

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