{"id":769186,"date":"2026-02-16T23:23:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T23:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/769186\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T23:23:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T23:23:16","slug":"calverley-library-building-sells-for-207000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/769186\/","title":{"rendered":"Calverley Library building sells for \u00a3207,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former Calverley Library building has sold at auction for \u00a3207,000.<\/p>\n<p>Services at the former library in Thornhill Street moved to refitted facilities at the Mechanics Institute earlier this month as cash-strapped Leeds City Council looked to raise funds.<\/p>\n<p>The listing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pugh-auctions.com\/property\/202601141430sq_82de\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">can be found here<\/a>. The new owner of the library building has not been formally revealed.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"879\" height=\"645\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/WLD-cutswatch.jpg\" alt=\"WLD cutswatch\" class=\"wp-image-109895\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>WLD has been chronicling local and central government cuts in West Leeds <a href=\"https:\/\/westleedsdispatch.com\/tag\/wld-cutswatch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">via our Cutswatch series.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sponsored content<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"638\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2024-10-31-at-18.31.46-638x900.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-164818\"  \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunnybankmills.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.sunnybankmills.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former Calverley Library building has sold at auction for \u00a3207,000. Services at the former library in Thornhill&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,210180,210181,393,4884,1860,212230,16,15,207658],"class_list":{"0":"post-769186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-calverley","10":"tag-calverley-library","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-leeds","14":"tag-thornhill-street","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wld-cutswatch"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116082888381712199","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}