Welcome to our Website
Friends of Cobbett Road Library (FCRL) is an informal group of people of all ages who meet at monthly intervals in the library. FCRL initially came into being to protect a greatly valued community asset and members set about publicising their cause in the local newspaper, putting posters in their windows. Since then the FCRL and Cobbett Road Library have gone from strength to strength organising events, activities and, with Library staff, making the library the centre of a friendly and lively local community.
The Library's future is secured. What was the "Save YOUR Library" page is now called "Campaigning 2011 to 2016", and has details of who has been operating the Library from June 4, and how the change from Council operation came about.
SCiA group now lease and operate Cobbett See "News and Events" and "Events & Talks Archive" for details of future and past events.
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Cobbett Hub and Library is offering only a very limited service at the momentCobbett Hub and Library has re-opened, purely for returning borrowed books and collecting books reserved online, within the very limited opening hours of 1300:1600, Monday and Friday only. Please check with SCiA if you need further information, noting that their website has not yet been updated with the information given above.
Libraries in Southampton operated by the Council (including Bitterne and Portswood Libraries) re-opened on July 6 for limited hours, but only for returns of borrowed books and collection of books reserved online. For full information, including days and hours of opening, see the City Libraries webpage. That page also provides details of the 2020 Summer Reading Challenge. Click here to register for the Friends of Cobbett Road Library Newsletter
There is no car parking available at Cobbett Hub - the nearest on-street area without parking restrictions is about 150 yards away in Cobbett Road.
Bus services to and from the City centre are frequent - First Bus/City Red 8, BlueStar 3, 16 & 18, Xelabus X10 all stop nearby. Follow this link to Google Maps showing the location of their stops and Bitterne Railway Station. The Library's postcode is SO18 1HL, but online maps show that location some distance from building. We could offer latitude and longitude, but a more user-friendly system is What3Words, where the Library entrance is coded hired.solo.lace and the end of the no-parking yellow line in Cobbett Road is exists.agrees.broke (pretty much where online maps show the postcode "pin"). Some in-car GPS sets can use What3Words locations. Local news from
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