A PIECE of history will be unfurled in Bury this week.
On Thursday, a banner celebrating the public library and what it has meant to local people over the last one hundred years, will be revealed for the first time.
The banner, which includes different images of the library service plus memories from the lives of the people who made it, was the work of 12 members of the borough's Housebound Library Service, aged between 80-95, who joined forces with community artist, Brian Raymond and service staff.
Bury Council's Housebound and Special Services Librarian, Elizabeth Binns, said: "Various techniques were used including fabric painting, embroidery and collage. For most of the older people involved it was the first time they had done any art work since they left school and for some that was a gap of over eighty years!
"The banner is being hung over the main enquiry desk at Bury Central Library as the building itself celebrates 100 years of use by the local community. "
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