When the mob came to Spellow Library, they used the non -fiction section as kinling.
Deborah Moore, the manager of the library at the time, arrived the next morning and found that the shelves and sofas purchased as part of the recent renovation had been piled up to build pias. Books that survived the riot, which had an anti -immigration in the United Kingdom and part of racial disability waves in the United Kingdom last August, turned yellow with smoke and their pages were curled up from heat.
She said she had come first, and she was sad, and even if her destruction was the odor of her destruction filled her nostrils, she decided to replace hundreds of burning books. In a last month's interview, she said, “I can't BEAT, so please see we will come back.”
The library is located in Walton, a blessed area of a British city in the northwest of Liverpool. One and a half years before the fire, it was transformed into a training workshop for unemployed, parent, and infant groups and a community hub to provide contact centers for local councils. Later, in August, it became one of the most famous victims in the United Kingdom's largest public disorder for over 10 years.
A few hours after killing three young girls in Southport, a coastal town of about 20 miles from Liverpool, he has arrived a new Muslim immigrant I claimed that it spread by the far right account. In fact, he was born in the UK, a family of Christians in Rwanda. However, rebellion violence occurred in more than 12 or more places in the United Kingdom and North Ireland, leading to more than 400 arrests.
The murderer Axel Ludakbana was sentenced to life sentence last week in prison. Keal Starmar, the British prime minister, explained his actions as an example of a new type of terrorism, including loneliness that was obsessed with violence, rather than driving one ideology.
Liverpool was one of the first places to erupt due to disability. The mob said in a statement at the time, as long as the firefighters tried to stop entering the library.
Alex McConc, a 27 -year -old woman in the suburbs, has decided to start an online funding to replace the book immediately after seeing the broken windows and black pages in the library.
“We can't burn books. This is not possible,” she said. “We are not like this, but what we look like in other areas in the world.”
Her goal was £ 500, about $ 610, but thousands of people began to get involved. McConic, who was married that month, noticed that the preparation of the wedding was distracted by monitoring the large and small acts of generousity. The young man mobilized his library to send a book. Others donated a book of a deceased loved one. The community members gave them as much as possible. Within three weeks, GOFUNDME collected 250,000 pounds.
“It's an immeasurable amount for one library,” she said. When she returned from her honeymoon, a member of the local council called out that Queen Camilla donated a book. In the collection, Ann -Frank's diary, “Love of the Cholera era”, “Tiger who came to tea” is a classic of British children by writers and illustrators who fled as a girl from Nazi Germany.
Macawmic, a member of another local library named after his favorite literary characters, hopes to give people a true image of her cities and British people. He said.
“Eventually, 11,500 people donated money to funding, and hundreds of more people donated physical books,” said Macawmick. “11,500 people had trouble in country roads and did not burn the library.”
The library was resumed in mid -December four months after the destruction. The Liverpool City Council paid for the rebuilding of 200,000 pounds to rebuild. The Council's Spokesman said that Macchmic's money was used in the community program.
A few weeks of violence, residents said the neighborhood was grabbed by anxiety. The colored races said they were afraid. Young workers, who helped to execute coaching sessions for young people, noticed that they had met a riot and suffered shame and regret. It further worsened the despair that many young people in Walton have already felt.
Sarah Acerton grew up in the neighborhood, saying that everyone felt it was abandoned. She said that some of the areas had long been forgotten.
Police arrested nine people on a county road, and one man was sentenced to 22 months for police officers to throw a glass bottle to a police officer.
On the cold night of December, the county road was crowded again. Dozens of residents carried lanterns by parade to resume. The balloon arch at the entrance of Spellow Library has led to many small businesses and amenities with many small businesses during the 10 -year track under a conservative government in the 2010s.
A few days later, on the first Saturday of resuming, the library became a lively nest. A woman came and shouted, “You are open!”
The 11 -year -old Iakob Drozdova was excited that his old library card could check out new books. He signed up to the picture class while his stepmother, Sofia Dorosdova, was waiting for a gorgeous new chair. The library was heaven for Drozdova, who said that he had fled from Russia with his wife and his family in the Wramlin's anti -gay law. According to her, the August violence was otherwise a safe area exception.
“I don't even have words in my native language,” said Russian librarian, Dorosdova.
In her first visit, the fungus tyrombet made a beeline for her favorite section, self -help and wellness. For a few months after she moved to reunite with her mother from Zimbabwe, she checked out more than 50 books. The library is located in the center of her new house, and she said that most people welcomed her even if she threw a racial slur to her mother a week ago.
“I'm just happy to heal,” she said. “There are many materials.”
The children gathered around the tables of crafts, filled cellophancorns with chocolate powder and marshmallows, and made a google -eye successor. In the children's reading corner, a group in the neighborhood wore a “Pinocchio” pantomime, but in another corner, a teenager narrowed his eyes on the computer screen and tried to find a mathematical homework.
“It's noisy,” said June Serging, who was studying her family tree. “But I'm happy to come back.”
