Strangely enough, the signs began to look good for Hove's Carnegie Library when the Fathers for Justice began to unfurl a banner at Big Ben.

must be another SAVE HOVE LIBRARY poster".

then, that such a good effect has been achieved at the Carnegie Library on Church Road.

the money for this building.

In its way, it is as impressive as the two reading rooms on the top floor of the library given to New York by John Jacob Astor (who died on the Titanic as work progressed).

personal property - a second home for everybody.

a reference-library desk was too small, she replied she would order a bigger one immediately. Another reader said some plants would suit it well (they are also lacking in the Jubilee Library and Hove Town Hall).

Some signs could provide directions up to the first-floor non-fiction shelves and it would also be fitting to bring back the entertaining display which chronicles the library's history.

There is also plenty of room for more shelving - for more books - and no doubt, as readers use the building, their ideas about this will take shape.

The library provides comment cards which are read avidly by the diligent staff who have worked through the winter to bring back this glorious building which - bogglingly - was almost lost.

-Christopher Hawtree, Hove