Central Drive Morecambe LA4 5DL
I have of course been here before, way back in 2016.
With time to spare before leading a Modernist Mooch at 12.00, I came to have another look around.
Always a pleasure to visit this gem – the work of County Architect Roger Booth and his team.
Many thanks to manager Andrew Till and the rest of the staff for their warm welcome and this display of Booth’s drawings.
Many thanks to all those merry moochers that came along too!
Modern Mooch 
Ooh that’s good. I love hexagons and this kind of hatted roof. I need to get my Railcard out.
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Well worth a visit!
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Those plans are gorgeous! We were here in 2013 but just came across it on a day trip and had no insight into its orgins. Thanks!
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I wonder whether the architect Roger Booth was insired by origami, the Japanese art of paper-folding. This was a popular ‘craze’ when I was at school in the 1960s and early 70s. People would try to make a swan or a flower for example from a flat sheet of paper without cutting or gluing. The angles and valleys of the library roof look very similar to the origami flower. I went into the gound floor lending section and the upstairs reference section many times. A strong memory is the smell – of vinyl perhaps from the flooring – which was not unpleasant but unlike any other library I’ve used.
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I take your point – and it is always a possibility, but there is, to the best of my knowledge no direct evidence. Roger Booth and the Lancashire Architects work is all held at the County Archive in Preston – you may search and discover this hidden link. All that aside it is a remarkable building and happily still in use as a library.
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