Norman Nicholson the John Rylands Library, Manchester, have bronze busts of Nicholson by Joan Palmer. A memorial stained glass window created by Christine Boyce can be found in St George's Church, Millom. Nicholson's papers are in the John Rylands Library, Manchester Millom Discovery Centre houses information about Norman Nicholson. Nicholson's personal collection of published poetry was acquired by the John Rylands Library, Manchester, from his family. Norman Nicholson's home at 14 St George's Terrace has become a food shop and café; there is a blue plaque on the front of the property, commemorating Nicholson. The Norman Nicholson Society was inaugurated in Millom,
John Rylands Library prevent the air being 'fouled by the opening of the outer doors' with internal swing doors between the circulation areas and the main library to 'preserve the valuable books from injury'. By 1900 the ventilation system had evolved to include electric fans to draw in air at pavement level through coke screens sprayed with water. On opening in 1900, the library had 70,000 books and fewer than 100 manuscripts and by 2012, more than 250,000 printed volumes and over one million manuscripts and archival items. The main foundation of the library's collections acquired in 1892 was the "Althorp Library" of