Andrew Carnegie was at one-time the ‘richest man in the world’. He is well known for the libraries he funded of which 660 are in the UK and 24 in Greater Manchester. Chorlton’s own Carnegie library is currently undergoing a restoration.
But there is a darker side to Carnegie’s wealth – he was a ruthless strike breaker and the part he, and other millionaires, played in the Johstown Flood disaster of 1889 in which 2,209 people lost their lives
ChorltonLibrary 1958
Andrew Carnegie
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