Broadhurst's Booksellers

charl08

Broadhurst's Booksellers | Southport, Lancashire, United Kingdom (Bookstore)

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Bookwomble Yay, Broadhurst's! 💖📚💖 6mo

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Bookwomble

Broadhurst's Booksellers | Southport, Lancashire, United Kingdom (Bookstore)

Why is it the the room you're not allowed to go in is the one that looks most interesting? 🤔🧐

BarbaraBB Super intrigued by that room!! 1y

Bookwomble @BarbaraBB The facing wall had mainly military history, but it looked like there was a gallimaufry of titles scattered about. The store recently bought two huge collections of sci-fi and crime novels, so they're dusting off and opening up rooms they've had locked as long as I can remember, and I've been a customer for over 40 years! This one is an attic room 🕷️🕸️🕷️😊 1y

BarbaraBB You make it even more intriguing! 1y

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jlhammar Oooh, that does look tempting! 1y

The_Book_Ninja Not a single 2nd hand book shop I haunted as a kid is still open🙁 1y

fredamans At least shut the bloody door so bibliophiles cannot see it.... geezus... why would you do us like that?! 1y

Bookwomble @The_Book_Ninja Ah, that's sad. Obviously, I can still visit Broadhurst's, which has been going since 1920, and sells new as well as secondhand and antiquarian books. There's another secondhand one, Parkinson's, which has been going since the early '80s at least, though sadly the original owner died recently. I thought it might close, but it has recently reopened and retained the name. 1y

Bookwomble @fredamans I don't think that doorway has a door in it at the moment 😀 To the right of the photo is another room with a firmly closed door (not that I tried it!), which was open last week and which I know to be full of books, too. I think they're both to be made accessible once the booksellers have finished reorganising 😁 1y

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Bookwomble

Broadhurst's Booksellers | Southport, Lancashire, United Kingdom (Bookstore)

So, I was at a Knotty Ash charity shop and spotted a secondhand mattress which I thought would do for the spare room. A bit soiled, but I think the jam butty stains will come out. I didn't noticed the rip in the side until I got home, which was initially disappointing, but when I checked the damage I was pleasantly surprised to find someone had hidden money in there! What a lucky windfall 🤑 So, long story short, I bought some books today 😏📚

TheBookHippie 🏆 2y

vivastory There has to be a story somewhere there...🤣 2y

Bookwomble @vivastory Search for Ken Dodd and The Beatles on YouTube; Ken Dodd and Knotty Ash Jam Butty mines, and Ken Dodd and tax evasion, and you'll get some idea 😀 2y

Leftcoastzen OMG!😁 2y

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Bookwomble

Broadhurst's Booksellers | Southport, Lancashire, United Kingdom (Bookstore)

#BookHaul
To celebrate a temporary fractional increase in my salary, I've spent more than the sum I will receive on books 🤨
Twenty-First Century Tolkien is an analysis of the Prof's relevance in modern society; a couple of Sparks in a uniform edition I have one of already (tbr, of course); poetry by a Ghanaian writer for my reading challenge, and; a book about being a lonely sad sausage.

Bookwomble I hope my use of an Oxford comma in the above list won't result in a reprimand from our new Health Minister, as the woes of the NHS obviously has everything to do with grammar, and nothing to do with decades of ideological underfunding and stealth privatisation 🙄 2y

TrishB I have no words. 🤷‍♀️ Where are we headed. 2y

Bookwomble @TrishB Hell in a handcart? 🧐 Our only hope is that the Tories have cut the handcart service funding, and the route to Hell now runs a Sunday service all week. Standing room only once the handcart leaves Purgatory! 🔥👹🔥 2y

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TrishB Is there a long queue? 2y

Bookwomble @TrishB You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave (mixing my metaphors now 😆) 2y

bibliothecarivs Is Beckham in the queue? 2y

Bookwomble @bibliothecarivs He could turn up anywhere! 2y

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charl08

Broadhurst's Booksellers | Southport, Lancashire, United Kingdom (Bookstore)

Book haul.

squirrelbrain A great haul! (I just read the Newsom one - very informative) 3y

charl08 @squirrelbrain that's exactly what I'm after, so thank you! 3y

squirrelbrain It armed me with the knowledge / confidence to speak to the doc, which I actually did earlier this week…. 3y

charl08 @squirrelbrain 💪💪💪 3y

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Bookwomble

Broadhurst's Booksellers | Southport, Lancashire, United Kingdom (Bookstore)

Love the extra knot in the tail - signature style of one of the booksellers 😄📙

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Bookwomble

Broadhurst's Booksellers | Southport, Lancashire, United Kingdom (Bookstore)

Yes! It's been so long... 😌📚
#bookhaul

Leftcoastzen I need to move to the United Kingdom! Seeing a book in brown paper w/ string makes me weak in the knees.😀 4y

Bookwomble Ha, ha! I can think of no better reason to emigrate to our troubled little country ? If you do, my bookshop is tagged and I'd recommend a visit (it's "mine" insofar as I shop there, not, sadly, because I own it). 4y

Nute Are all book purchases wrapped like this for every customer? That touches my heart! 4y

Bookwomble @Nute They offer to wrap rather than bag, and I rarely refuse! Part of their training of new staff our learning to tie a parcel neatly and securely, but not too tight - it's a bookseller's rite of passage 😄 4y

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charl08

Broadhurst's Booksellers | Southport, Lancashire, United Kingdom (Bookstore)