Surrey County Council don’t designate a central library so I picked Guildford as it was listed as one of their area libraries and we found ourselves passing Guildford on the way back from our holiday.

The children’s library has a great “reading house” underneath the stairs which was occupied by a mum and daughter.

The picture window was lovely and let in lots of light (but that doesn’t come across in my photo). People were happily reading in the adjacent chairs.

I always love to see evidence of lots of community activities.

It was interesting seeing multiple copies of books stacked on a table like in a bookshop.