This photograph is part of a series that form a remarkable time-capsule of a British children’s bookshop. Clearly an independent specialist children’s section rather than a chain. The stock mix, fixtures, and publisher branding all help narrow the date. BOOK STOCK Books and series one can identify Clearly visible titles from the spinner racks and face-out… Continue reading The Bookboat stock in 1991
Author: Colin Hicks
In the beginning
THE BOOK BOAT, A Photographic Memorial, Greenwich, 1978—1996 Author’s Note What This is A photographic memorial to the Hegaro — a Humber keel barge that arrived on the Thames at Greenwich in August 1978 and became, for eighteen years, the Book Boat: a children’s bookshop moored between Gypsy Moth IV and Cutty Sark, the only… Continue reading In the beginning
The Bookbus
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Bob’s Scrap Book
This is a holding page Between 1978 and 1984 Bob collected together a lot of press coverage and publicity items for both the Bookboat – launched in August 1978 – and the Bookbus – starting in 1981. Here are some 130 items he collected over that period – the order in which he put them,… Continue reading Bob’s Scrap Book