RECORDS OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARIES DEPARTMENT Information about the planning and opening of the Bethnal Green Gramophone Record Library can be found in the minutes of the Council's Public Libraries Commitee (ref. L/BGM/A/11) The service was initially based at Bethnal Green Library, where it opened on 13 February 1961; it later moved to Mayfield House on Cambridge Heath Road, which then became home to the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Record Library (see L/THL/H/4). 1912-1965