DID you work here - at Blackburn's old public library? If so, you're invited to a 'Grand Reunion' of its ex-staff.

The event is being held on October 2, 2003, at the Cellar Bar in King Street, Blackburn, with a potato pie supper for £3.

Co-organiser, present-day reference librarian Alan Duckworth says the event is a chance for old-time library staff to "meet old friends, air old grievances, renew old animosities and rekindle old flames."

Contact him on 01254-587919 or Bozena Hook on 01254-585842 or by e-mail at Bozena.Hook@blackburn.gov.uk if you wish to attend.

This view of the old library, now part of the town's Museum and Art Galley, dates from the mid-1950s, prior to its 1959 revamp. In 1975, the library moved lock, stock and barrel to its present premises in Town Hall Street which used to be Blackburn's Co-op's Emporium.