1904 – Public Library, Bromley-by-Bow, London
Architect: Squire Myers & Petch
“Near at hand is the Bromley Public Library, a handsome stone edifice conducted on the ‘Open Access’ system. The Library building contains a small but interesting Museum of local objects and many quaint documents, amongst these the ‘Hamlet of Poplar Rate Book for 1806’, recording the fact that one of the ratepayers had taken a trip, at His Majesty’s expense, to the Australian penal settlement of Botany Bay.”
Official Guide to the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar, 1927
Awarded Grade II listing in 1973. No longer in use as a library.
Published August 7, 2009 | Last Updated February 17, 2026
