Carnegie Heritage Centre

{{Short description|Grade II listed building in Hull, England}}

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The Carnegie Heritage Centre is a grade II listed building in Hull, England, which was designed as a Carnegie library.{{NHLE|num=1197652|desc=Former Carnegie Public Library|accessdate=4 July 2022}}

Originally known as the Carnegie Free Library, the building opened in 1905 as Hull's fifth branch library. Andrew Carnegie donated £3,000 towards its construction. It is situated at the gates of West Park, and is unusual among Carnegie libraries for its half-timbered construction (although not unique, there is a similar building in Stratford-upon-Avon).

It was used as a public library until 2003.{{cite news|first=Boyd |last=Tonkin |date=April 2011|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/boyd-tonkin-a-fresh-wind-from-the-humber-2264694.html?service=Print |title=A fresh wind from the Humber|newspaper=The Independent|accessdate= 3 August 2011}} Library services were then provided in a Learning Centre within the adjacent KC Stadium, and the former library had various uses and was then left empty.{{cite web|title=History|url=http://www.carnegiehull.co.uk/index.php|work=The Carnegie Heritage Centre|accessdate=2 August 2011}}

The Carnegie Heritage Action Team was created in 2006 to rescue the building and create a centre for local and family history resources. The centre opened in August 2008, and is now run by the Carnegie Heritage Centre ltd. The centre received material from the local history collections of Hull College when the college's local history unit closed down, and the East Yorkshire Family History Society rents space in the centre to house its research material. A bindery operates from the premises, and a variety of local history events take place including WEA courses in local history.{{cite web|title=Events |url=http://www.carnegiehull.co.uk/events.php |work=Carnegie Heritage Centre |accessdate=2 August 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110911193703/http://www.carnegiehull.co.uk/events.php |archivedate=11 September 2011 }}{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/humber/content/articles/2008/07/17/131_eptas_lshepherd_feature.shtml|title=Every Picture Tells a Story|last=Shepherd|first=Liz|date=18 July 2007|work=Humberside|publisher=BBC|accessdate=3 August 2011}}