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Saturday 17th January 2026

2pm: Red Herrings – The Silver Songbird Mystery
Thornbury Library

2-4pm

A murder mystery - where it's up to you to solve the crime.

This murder mystery is set in 1939 on an aeroplane named Songbird, during its ill-fated inaugural flight. Enjoy an opportunity to solve the crime.

Tickets £5 from the library or online below. Ticket price includes refreshments.

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Thornbury Library

Contact Thornbury Library

Address: St Mary Street, Thornbury, BS35 2AA

Phone: 01454 868006
Fax: 01454 865657

Email:
Website: www.southglos.gov.uk/libraries or www.librarieswest.org.uk

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Photos kindly supplied by RichMcD Photography.

Coming Soon - A Local Hero

Next March you'll be able to visit Thornbury Library to find out more about Sir George White's new biography of Alveston's Nineteenth Century pioneer naturalist, ecologist and conservationist John Knapp, together with the previously unpublished fifth edition of his Journal of a Naturalist. Watch this space for more details!

If you're curious to find out more in the meantime, click here.

Thornbury Library
Thornbury Library

Regular Events at Thornbury Library

Thornbury Library

Lego Club:
Create your own LEGO masterpieces and display them in the library for your family and friends to see.
Free every Saturday 9.30-10.30am

NEW - Rhymes and Stories:
FREE Every Monday (still Rhymetime but with a little story on top) 9.30am-10am (open at 9.30 for Rhymetime only)

Free Computer Support 1-1:
Book a session with our computer volunteer for IT and digital support every Thursday 10am, 11am or 12noon.
Pop in or email to book a space.

Rhymetime:
FREE Every Friday 9.30am-10am (open at 9.30 for Rhymetime only)

“Have You Read…?”
Come and enjoy an open book group with a difference. No set novel to read. Just drop in for an hour on the first Friday of every month 2pm-3pm.

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Open Access at South Gloucestershire Libraries

Active Card

If you register your card for our new Open Access System, and attend an induction, you’ll be able to access library facilities any day throughout the week.

You can borrow and return books and use the computers.

Please speak to a member of staff for more details.

Home Library Service - books to your door

Do you, or anyone you know, find it difficult to get to the library for books? If the answer is yes, please contact us to ask about our Home Library Service as we have volunteers happy to help.

Use the Library Online

Our free online library is always open 24/7: eBooks, eAudiobooks, eComics, digital magazines and newspapers continue to be available for library members to download anytime - www.southglos.gov.uk/eresources has all the details.

It now also includes Who Else Writes Like?, and for children, Who Next? where you can find authors who write in a similar way to those you have already enjoyed reading. Simply log in with your library card number and select South Gloucestershire.

If you are not already a library member you can join online at bit.ly/joinLW - membership is free.  You will receive an Online Membership number which will work for our digital services right away. Please enter an email address when you register for greater control of your account.







Forthcoming events

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Wednesday 18th February 2026

Friday 6th March 2026

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