A chat with Catherine Westwood, manager at Market Drayton Library, about her love for the town and the people who live there.

Transcript

00:00So I started working in Market Drayton Library in September of 2002 and then

00:07I've worked here most of my library career had a little sin to our library

00:11headquarters and I've been back for nearly two years now. What keeps bringing

00:14you back to Drayton? Well I do live here and I think it's a wonderful town

00:18there's really friendly people here and I just love working with the staff in

00:22the library and everybody that comes in everybody's so friendly and they know

00:26that if they need help they can come to us and we'll listen and help them as

00:30best we can or if not we'll signpost them on to somewhere else. And you have

00:34quite a lot of events going on here, is it quite a community hub? It is a very

00:38much a community hub, we have things on most days so Mondays we've got a coffee

00:44morning which is open to everybody and in the afternoon we've got our craft

00:49nooners, we've got a chess as well later on in the afternoon, Tuesday we've got a

00:54baby sensory play time and we've got two scrabble groups as well, Wednesdays we've

01:00got a backgammon at late lunchtime, Thursday we are closed but sometimes on

01:04a Thursday we've got our chair exercises once a month and on Fridays we've got

01:09our rhyme time and our other craft group as well, we have lots of things on on

01:13Saturdays and yeah we're still looking to do more things and we're getting ready

01:17to plan our summer holiday events for the children as well so watch this space for

01:21that. Amazing.