Quiz master Ian presents PCL’s Quiz Night at The Preston, 161 Preston Road, Wembley, HA9 8NG. Donation: £5.00 per person If you are eating and wish to reserve a table, visit https://www.emberinns.co.uk/nationalsearch/london/the-preston-wembley/tablebooking Everyone welcome! PCL PUB QUIZ 8.00 pm start. PrestonCommunityLibrary@gmail.com
Look out for Community Library carol singers outside the CoOp - Preston Road. We are fundraising for the Library.
Library Closed for Christmas Break
50’sto 80’s Pop, Rock, & Soul At the Windermere Pub WINDERMERE AVE, WEMBLEY, SOUTH KENTON HA9 8QT Opposite South Kenton Tube/Overground Station: 223 Bus Entrance: £8.00; £5.00(concs) - proceeds to help keep our Library open.
Come and borrow a book at the library on World Book Day. World Book Day was created by UNESCO on 23rd April 1995 as a worldwide celebration of books and reading. It is marked in over 100 countries around the globe.
50 people attended a Film Night Special screening of 'Victoria & Abdul', with the The Sunday Times best-selling author and historian Shrabani Basu talking about her book, Victoria & Abdul:The True Story of The Queen’s Closest Confidant.
Join our local Safer Neighbourhood Team for the latest help and advice on how to protect yourself from the ever-increasingly-sophisticated threats we face.
Martin Rosenbaum is a highly experienced and successful user of the freedom of information system. For 16 years he was the leading specialist in utilising FOI for journalism in BBC News, where he pioneered its use, breaking stories as well as training and advising many other journalists. He now works as an FOI consultant, trainer... Read More
In honour of Refugee Week, the Library hosted another brilliant author-led literary evening on July 10. Two distinguished writers, Kamila Shamsie – author of 'HOME FIRE', the astonishing novel set in Preston Road that won the Women’s Prize for Fiction – and Caroline Smith, the much-lauded Wembley-based poet, came to the Library to discuss their works. Kamila... Read More
BBC reporter, Asad Ahmad, with Preston Community Library's Inspiration, the sculpture, especially created for us by Carl Gabriel, hits the headlines during the BBC London report on Carnival. BBC London's report on preparations for Carnival provided fine views of our sculpture Inspiration which is currently on display at the Tabernacle, Notting Hill during our temporary move to... Read More
To mark the 50th anniversary of the disastrous 1973 Coup in Chile, come to a screening of the award-winning documentary Cruel Separation with director, Sarah Boston. Cruel Separation is the story of the military coup in Chile on 11 September 1973 from the point of view of four women who lived through it: Hortensia Bussi de Allende, widow... Read More
