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Now when I think about it the old P S & N shop would be a great place to film Harry Potter scenes, it was a great place to rummage through.
My parents lost their income from PS & N when it went out of business in
the seventies, but they fortunately kept some of the books. I often rummage about in my garage, and come up with something incredible. For example, I have
a 1920 George Philip World Atlas, hilariously titled the 'shorter' edtition: it weighs about 5 LBs! It's huge!
I never got to see the shops, being in NZ at the time, but I did visit my great-uncle Jack Philip at Birkenhead in the 1980's. He had been one of the Directors for many years.
loved the photos posted here. Thanks.
I remember this shop well, bought my own first books there. It was certainly a "rabbit warren" of a building, occupying 3 floors, with quite a narrow and congested entrance at No.7 Whitechapel where Barclays Bank was until recently. That front part of the premises still stands. I believe only the rear of the premises, with the shop's old rear exit was demolished to build the pub. Looking back the building was probably a serious fire hazard, given its narrow passageways and wooden staircases, the amount of paper in its products and the crowded throngs that gathered there in its heyday.
In the 1860's the business was at 51 South Castle Street.
As a 14yr old in 1946 I used to brouse in there ,fascinated with the various nibs ,books etc. afew years later as a seaman I often bought books to take away with me ,one being a large English/Spanish dictionary because I was studying Spanish & another was 'The quare fella' byDavid Bone ,a great nautical yarn . Ron
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Hello Ron
Sorry about the deletion. I am sure the word was an innocuous as meant by you but the system will do that if it identifies what it thinks is an objectionable word. The way to do it is to do this: "co*cky fellow" or similar to get around that problem. Good luck.
Chris
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Do you remember Charles Wilson's bookshop at 20a Church Alley?
I still proudly own a big dinosaur book my parents bought me in there for my tenth birthday- so that would have been 1963. It cost ?1 10 shillings, a huge amount for them but I was so happy to get it!
Wilson's was the first bookshop I ever remember visiting and I thought it was a wonderland- something that's stayed with me ever since!
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Phillip, Sons and Nephews. I used to love going in there! I remember getting my first horror anthology ( the 3rd Pan Book of Horror Stories edited by Herbert Van Thal ) from there which lead to a lifetime ( so far ) of reading sci-fi, horror and fantasy novels! I'd go there and get a book and then whiz over to Beaver radio and listen to the latest " progressive " rock album and then walk round to Hesseys and drool at the unaffordable Fender Stratocasters in the window!...
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I hope I may be forgiven for digressing a little here, but as a 12yr old I would go into the city & brouse in all the older parts of the city ,exploring back alleys etc. & I always made a point at week ends of visiting an bookshop in Bold St about half way along on the right hand side , this was during the war , it was manned by a very old man in a long black coat & scarf & the place had been collecting dust for years ,with second hand books & magazines back to Victorian times stacked to the ceiling ,a veritable paradise to me & he only charged me pennies for the old periodicals & one item I got was a portfolio of all the worlds ocean& wind currents for everymonth of the year , especially for sailing ship officers , which he let me have for nothing ! does anyone else remember that far back . Ron
Yes it was a great bookshop they used to have the dealership for ordnance surveys maps which was very useful.
You could always get Poetry books in Phillip, Son and Nephew. I was a real saddo at School and loved poetry and I remember buying their poetry anthologies. It was a proper bookstore. Someone has already mentioned the wonderful old bookstore in Berry Street. You could smell the old books from outside.
Do you remember the bookshop in Upper Dawson Street next to the Playhouse, just before the open air pet market.
When you walked inside the floor was flagged just like the outside pavement.
Also the secondhand bookshop in Newington on the side by Lewis's. It was pulled down when they built the paint shop on the corner.
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