Comments on: The Bookshops Of Old London https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/08/12/the-bookshops-of-old-london/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Fri, 22 Aug 2025 23:10:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Vivian Baxter https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/08/12/the-bookshops-of-old-london/#comment-1781721 Fri, 22 Aug 2025 23:10:57 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=182957#comment-1781721 My grandfather Samuel Baxter owned a bookstore in London. Anyone have info on the Baxter family.

]]> By: John Hackett https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/08/12/the-bookshops-of-old-london/#comment-1686008 Sun, 26 Jan 2025 16:28:35 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=182957#comment-1686008 I caught the second hand and antiquarian bookshop bug whist at Cardiff in the 1970s. There were still 17th Century works for sale on open bookshelves and at prices a student could afford. This article is so evocative of those days.

]]> By: Amos Julien https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/08/12/the-bookshops-of-old-london/#comment-1570796 Sun, 05 May 2024 20:27:00 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=182957#comment-1570796 Following up on my previous comment:

I do think that Waterstones on Gower Street is now the best bookstore on planet earth.

Everybody should now pop in and discover it (especially the basement section).

An absolute haven for book addicts and book lovers.

]]> By: Harry https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/08/12/the-bookshops-of-old-london/#comment-1503707 Thu, 09 Mar 2023 18:34:23 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=182957#comment-1503707 In and out of the bookshops along Charing Cross Road and then into the Porcupine to read the results over a pint.

]]> By: Amos Julien https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/08/12/the-bookshops-of-old-london/#comment-1447920 Fri, 28 Jan 2022 20:54:30 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=182957#comment-1447920 I did strongly recommend that people visit Waterstones on Gower Street.

Probably the best bookshop of its kind in London.

Another good posted article thanks again GA.

]]> By: Saleh Razzouk https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/08/12/the-bookshops-of-old-london/#comment-1364521 Thu, 21 Jan 2021 09:21:03 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=182957#comment-1364521 I had to purchase rare books or expensive ones from second hand stores when doing my ph.d. in England.
I keep a first edition (but 2 print) of Lady chatterly’s lover by lawrence. The surprise that i tripped on it in colchester during a summer visit in a basement in city centre near the citadel. But not in his birth place city Nottingham the very place where i did my research in.

]]> By: Tony Anderson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/08/12/the-bookshops-of-old-london/#comment-1352833 Tue, 15 Sep 2020 12:06:22 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=182957#comment-1352833 What a rare treat that was! I remember some of those shops from my first trips to London in the 70’s.. Here I am in my own 70’s trapped in rural Australia (which I do love, by the way, and my town has an old and famous bookshop, said to be the best in rural Victoria) and frustrated as all hell because I will not be able to do my annual trip to London where quite a few bookshops are amongst my favourite repeat destinations.

Thanks for a huge treat!!

]]> By: Steven A Burr https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/08/12/the-bookshops-of-old-london/#comment-1350454 Thu, 27 Aug 2020 23:13:28 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=182957#comment-1350454 One of my favorite books about Books:
84, Charing Cross Road Paperback – October 1, 1990
by Helene Hanff (Author)
4.6 out of 5 stars 562 ratings
ISBN-13: 978-0140143508 ISBN-10: 0140143505 Edition: Reissue

I wish I could back in time to the Charing Cross Road 1930!

]]> By: Chris Connor https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/08/12/the-bookshops-of-old-london/#comment-1350104 Fri, 21 Aug 2020 15:50:08 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=182957#comment-1350104 Paradise. Many an afternoon spent looking in wonder at the vast array of wonderful old books. So unfortunate that the majority no longer exist. Oh to be back in Corbet Court, Marylebone High Street and Charing Cross Road, with the familiar smell as you stroll into history.

]]> By: jennifer galton-fenzi https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/08/12/the-bookshops-of-old-london/#comment-1349723 Fri, 14 Aug 2020 20:09:03 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=182957#comment-1349723 Wonderful memories, and sense of loss – especially the Welsh bookshop in Cecil Court, focal point of the Welsh community in London.

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