🤩Why not come down to Marksbury Rd library and join in with our Lego Club 🤩Next Saturday 23rd May 🤩11.30-12.30pm🤩 Suitable for 4y plus 🤩Children must be accompanied by an adult 🤩 The Lego club runs on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays each month #GoAllIn #LoveLibraries #lego Bristol City Council
Join us for our next Local History reminiscence group at Bristol Central Library. This month’s theme is Food. What was your favourite Fish ‘n’ Chip shop growing up? How much was a Freddos when you were a kid? Pop in for a chat 💬
Wednesday 20 May, 11am-12noon.
Take a trip down memory lane at Central Library.
Join our friendly reminiscence group and rediscover memories through old photographs, newspapers, oral histories and local history materials that spark meaningful conversations.
No need to book - just drop in and join the journey!
Open to all.
Sessions last 1 hour.
☀️We had lots of lovely stories, singing and walking in St Georges park yesterday ☀️Our Story Book Walk was part of Bristol Walk Fest ☀️The sun shone for just the right amount of time, but it was close! #LoveLibraries #GoAllIn @bristolwalkfest
A HUGE thank you to @maddypelling and @drrosewallis for a fascinating conversation last night about the incredible story of Bristol's Princess Caraboo! ✨ Maddy's new book HOAX was researched in part at Bristol Central Library, so we were delighted to welcome her back for the evening.
Thanks also to the lovely @gloucester_rd_books for coming down to sell books for us! 🙏
📚 Library copies of 'HOAX: Truth and Lies in the Age of Enlightenment' are on order and will be available soon to reserve via the library catalogue✨
🗓️ The exhibition is on display until the end of the month, and we'll be running Curator's Tours on Wednesday 27 May, 3.30-4.30pm.
🎟️ Book your place on our library events website: https://bristol.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=346911
Coming up in June at Bristol Central Library!
We are very excited to introduce - Lost places of Bristol / an exhibition by artist Jane Warring.
The Lost Places of Bristol exhibition will include a selection of 19th Century illustrations by Samuel Loxton chosen from the Central Library collection showing places and buildings that no longer exist in Bristol, their loss due to things such as war damage, planning decisions, fire, or a changing culture. The original Loxton illustrations will be displayed alongside newspaper cuttings and ephemera also from the Central Library collections. Some of the lost views will be contrasted with photographs, taken by artist and MA Fine Art student Jane Warring, of the same locations today. The Loxton illustrations will be digitally combined by the artist with the photographic images to create a collage and produced using the 19th Century Cyanotype process to make a series of 21st Century original prints. These will be displayed alongside the original Loxtons as a reflection of the changing urban environment in Bristol over the past 150 years.
On Monday 1 June, Jane will be upstairs at Bristol Central Library all day to welcome visitors, answer questions and talk about her photographs and prints - do drop in and say hi! #bristolart #ThingsToDoInBristol
Special Collections Sunday goes Supersonic with Bristol's Concorde ✈
Sunday 24 May, between 2-4pm
Bristol Room - upstairs at Bristol Central Library
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Concorde's first commercial flight. What a great excuse to search our collections for all things Concorde! Join us for a display of photographs, books, pamphlets and newspaper cuttings, and explore the history, innovation and Bristol pride behind this supersonic icon.
👀🤩👀 Join us for a Story Book Walk at St George Library
👀🤩👀 Tomorrow - Thursday 14th May 10.15-10.45
👀No need to book just turn up on the day! 🌷🌹🌿🌱
@bristolwalkfest #GoAllIn Bristol City Council #LoveLibraries
📚 We’re hiring! Library Porter / Driver 🚛
📍 Bristol Central Library and citywide
🕒 Permanent, Part time – 35 hours per week (average)
📅 Application closing date: 24/05/2026
📦 What you’ll be doing
✔️ Driving and delivering books, stock & resources across 26 Bristol libraries
✔️ Portering duties at Bristol Central Library
✔️ Keeping library spaces clean, safe & well organised
✔️ Managing book crates in basement areas
✔️ Supporting events & exhibitions
✔️ Assisting with safety and security when needed
🎓 We’re looking for someone who:
✅ Has a C1 licence and experience driving up to 7.5t vehicles
✅ Is confident working independently and in a team
✅ Follows safe manual handling practices
✅ Communicates well with staff and the public
👉 Interested? For further details and to apply online, search ‘Library porter / driver’ on Bristol City Council’s job website: /jobs
Bristol City Council @bristolcouncil
#jobvacancy #jobopportunity #jobsearch #BristolJobs #driverjobs #porterjobs
📚🌿 Staff at Henleaze Library have made this display to promote Bristol Nature Book Club 🌿📚
We’re really looking forward to our next meet‑up, where we’ll be chatting about Late Light by award-winning Bristol nature writer Michael Malay ✨🐦
🗓 Wednesday 27 May
⏰ 5:30–6:30pm
📍 Henleaze Library
Whether you’ve finished the book, dipped into a few chapters, or just fancy coming along to listen and chat, everyone is very welcome 💚 Come and share thoughts, ideas, and a love of books and the natural world 📚🌍💬
📖🌙 About the book:
Late Light is the story of Michael Malay's own journey, an Indonesian Australian making a home for himself in England and finding strange parallels between his life and the lives of the animals he examines. Mixing natural history with memoir, this book explores the mystery of our animal neighbours, in all their richness and variety. It is about the wonder these animals inspired in our ancestors, the hope they inspire in us, and the joy they might still hold for our children. 🍃
#HelneazeLibrary #bristolnaturebookclub #naturewriting
👀🤩👀 Why not join us for a Story Book Walk at Bishopsworth library 👀🤩👀 Tomorrow - Wednesday 13th May 2-2.30pm
👀No need to book just turn up on the day! 🌷🌹🌿🌱
@bristolwalkfest #GoAllIn Bristol City Council #LoveLibraries
As our city changes, so must our #libraryservice.
Got good ideas for what should happen with our libraries?
Let us know at Bristol.gov.uk/library-survey-2026
This #survey will close at midnight on Monday 22 June 2026.
