Reading & Local history with Trafford Libraries
Join Trafford Libraries in the Imperial War Museum North, where they are hosting reading activities for all ages PLUS a chance to find out more about the intriguing history of the area with the Trafford Local Studies & Archives.
Chatterbooks Taster Session
If you are aged between 7 and 11, enjoy reading and like to talk about what you have read, then Trafford Libraries’ Chatterbooks is for you!
A reader’s group for children, run by library staff.
Come and join us to see what it’s all about
Suitable for 7 – 11 year olds
Saturday and Sunday
12:30 – 13:15
Book Speed Dating
With only 5 minutes per novel, what will your first impressions be? Will you be swiping left or right? Will you find a book that’s worthy of a second date? It could be a lorra, lorra laughs!
Come over to the Imperial War Museum North and take part in our reader’s group with a difference.
Suitable for Adults
Sunday
10:45 – 11:30
13:30 – 14:15
Trafford Libraries Pop-Up
This will be our first pop-up library for We Invented The Weekend.
We will be offering books with space to read, children’s and adult’s crafts, storytimes, rhymetimes and digital support. We will have information on how to access our e-books, e-audiobooks, e-newspapers and e-magazines and a Lego corner to keep the children (and the grown-ups) occupied.
Trafford Local Studies and Archives
Our Local Studies Team will be on hand with historical maps, books to buy, library stock to loan, family history guides and resources in addition to a special Trafford 50 activity booklet and exhibition. The team will be offering a whole host of local history support and will be presenting a special display and film documenting the story of Chapel Street, Altrincham, which was famously dubbed the “Bravest Street in England” by King George V. Chapel Street had the most soldiers fight in WW1, out of all the streets in England.