Chetham's Library

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Chetham's School of Music Long Millgate Manchester M3 1SB
Chetham's Library | The oldest public Library in the English speaking world

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The oldest public Library in the English speaking world

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Chethams Library, library, history, early printed books, manuscripts, diaries, letters, deeds, prints, paintings, glass lantern slides, readers, manchester

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Humphrey Chetham Humphrey Chetham (1580–1653), the most successful gentleman merchant of seventeenth-century Lancashire, was born in Crumpsall Hall, near Manchester, and later lived at Clayton Hall near Droylsden. His fortune was... Read more
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