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      <title>Re: Second hand bookshops</title>
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      <author>Skiffle</author>
      <description><![CDATA[No dodgy goings-on at the Fulwood road Oxfam in Sheffield where I used to help. The manageress, Helena, is very strict about that sort of thing. Staff aren't allowed 'first pick'; they have to buy things from the shop at usual prices and it's entered into a book. I got a green silk shirt as soon as I saw it being hung up on the racks.
I was allowed a free copy of '101 Dalmations', but they get plenty of copies of that sort of thing]]></description>
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      <title>Re: Second hand bookshops</title>
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      <author>belochka</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Too much time on my hands obviously, but I've just googled to find any if there's any update on Turkish 'Mahmood&quot; and his website.  Got a load of guff but nothing that seemed to be him.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2003 20:22:06 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Second hand bookshops</title>
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      <author>poetscientistdrinker</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Mahmood, wasn't he?

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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2003 19:09:25 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>belochka</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Well there's one Aunt-in-law living in Lincoln, and an aunt and uncle-in-law who've just moved to a village outside of the town whose name escapes me at the mo, I'll have to go and check.  All Nick's folks come from roundabout there, we had a big Addison family gathering at a pub called the Railway Inn not too long ago.
Incidentally the Aunt in Lincoln was married to one of the chief bellringers at Lincoln Cathedral, he's got a small stained glass memorial window in the Bellringers Chapel which we all went to see.  The vergers kindly let us in because that part wasn't open, the bellringers were up in the tower at the time.

I like Lincoln a lot, its also were Nick proposed to me! :)

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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2003 17:17:41 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Second hand bookshops</title>
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      <author>Auntysassy</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I loved that 'I Love You' site by the Turkish chappie - my friend in Norway sent it to me.  However, it soon got hi-jacked and a lot of dodgy stuff was posted on it.  I think in the end it had to be 'removed'.

Where abouts in Lincoln are the in-laws, Belochka?  That's my place of origin.

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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2003 16:45:56 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>belochka</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I wonder if its a sudden accretion of 'word of mouth', sneaky PR tactics or a supposedly slow news day.  At least this site is quite fun and useful for tea breaks, anyone recall that Turkish bloke's site who had his five minutes of fame and whose name I can no longer remember?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2003 16:31:44 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>dante</author>
      <description><![CDATA[It was in either the metro or the daily record, too.

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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2003 16:27:12 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>Sarah</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I used to help in an Oxfam shop when I was in my late teens, and that kind of thing simply didn't happen.  Either times have changed, or it's something to do with location (I was in Kendal).

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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2003 16:20:48 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>dave</author>
      <description><![CDATA[it's on the beeb website as well]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2003 16:20:02 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Second hand bookshops</title>
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      <author>belochka</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Aunty Sassy - Thanks for the tip about Lincoln, I've got some in-laws that way, so next time we have to visit I know where I can go and hide! :)

Funny you experienced that with Oxfam, someone I know who worked in one of the Birmingham branches said the same thing.  I send any charity bags of stuff to Sue Ryder shops now.

btw Don't know if you've seen/heard it but there's been a sudden burst of publicity about one of the sites you posted ,'anicecupofteaandasitdown.com'.  made the front page of the Times and Radio 2!

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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2003 16:12:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Second hand bookshops</title>
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      <author>Auntysassy</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Good second hand bookshop in Lincoln - half-way up Steep Hill (and it is - very!) and called The Reader's Rest.  The place is like a warren - twists and turns very much like a twisty-turny thing in fact!

Oxfam has a second hand bookshop in Winchester - reasonable selection though the prices are a bit steep on some of them.  Also have this thing about Oxfam ever since I did a bit of voluntary work for them in one of their shops and the old dears went through all the donations nicking the best for themselves without paying a penny - at other charity shops I've worked in, if you took it before it went out onto the floor, you put some money in the till.

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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2003 15:32:34 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>Skiffle</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hmmm, might visit Newcastle some time. My friend, Krissy's family live up that way and her Mum loves having her friends to stay. In fact, I have visited once, for a party. Krissy's Mum also likes to cook, and in large quantities too. Her idea of a good time is making a roast dinner with all the trimmings, for six people. She comes from a *large* family and likes adopting people. I'm not sure if it's still true, but Krissy told me last year that when she phones, her Mum asks after Krissy's friends before she asks how her daughter is.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2003 01:49:36 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>poetscientistdrinker</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Never been a problem for me... 

Cerys from Catatonia once cancelled an interview as she had unaccountably woken up in Paris.

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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2003 00:17:54 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>kaz</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Most people just go to the bedroom and forget what they are there for.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2003 23:59:29 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>Sarah</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Wasn't it G K Chesterton who rang up his wife and asked the immortal question, &quot;I'm in [such and such a place] - where should I be?&quot;

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      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2003 20:38:57 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>belochka</author>
      <description><![CDATA[PSD - Admittedly AG does have some flaws in his work, but my admiration of his stuff carries me over.  I don't know a lot about sculpture, so that may explain it!  Henry Moore's work always baffles me, even if I can appreciate the aesthetic.

I have also known that on occasion very, um, confused students have phoned parents for a lift whilst being several hundred miles away.  I guess you must have leapt that particular pitfall.

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      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2003 20:02:53 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>poetscientistdrinker</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I quite like some of Gormley's stuff, although some of it is terribly twee. I haven't had a chance to see 'Field' yet. As my parents lived 200 miles away frok Durham, I'm not sure I could have got a lift back...

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      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2003 19:41:42 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>belochka</author>
      <description><![CDATA[PSD - lol, that's a good one.  I'm sure that your folks forgave you, as long as you didn't follow that up with &quot;and we've run out of petrol, can you give us a lift back?&quot;

Nuts, I really want to go and see it!  It's going to be an age before I'm up in that neck of the woods though.  I even have a miniature model of the Angel statue, its on top of the iMac.

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      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2003 19:37:33 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>poetscientistdrinker</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Dave - Wasn't placing them into any kind of order, just as they occurred to me. 

Belochka - Anel of the North is damned fine, especially on a sunny afternoon when there's loads of kids playing football beneath it (yup, that BBC advert wasn't staged. Well, the hot air balloon was, but...) After a drunken evening in the college bar we wanted to do something random. One of the barmaids had borrowed her father's car so we shot off to see the Angel at midnight. My parents weren't impressed to get a phone call from me, banging on it going 'guess what this is!'

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      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2003 19:29:21 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>jon</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Pictures now replaced. rust me to pick a day when some bugger updated the website ... we've paid some consultant lots of money to re-design it. Must have taken him all of five minutes.

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      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2003 15:13:25 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>dave</author>
      <description><![CDATA[We visited both the castle and the garden. The garden is pretty good, be better in a year or two when it's grown in a bit. The water feature is splendid though.

the castle is also worth a visit, the tea shop is particularly good... :-)]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2003 14:56:16 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>MissPrint</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Reasons to visit Alnwick;

The castle - exteriors for Harry Potter films were shot there.  Also, the new garden which was at the concrete construction site stage when we went is now finished, and shoud look really lovely.

Folk festival in August - before you all laugh at me, I go to watch the dancing and take photographs of the embroidered costumes as needlework is one of my passions.  There's lots of proper outdoorsy folk music, not miserable bearded English gits with a finger in one ear singing in doubtful harmonies about their own true love.  Perhaps that sort goes on, but you can avoid it.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2003 14:53:33 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>adam</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Oi, our kid, those photos aren't there.

Maybe he's been rumbled by the boss ;)]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2003 14:25:49 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>dave</author>
      <description><![CDATA[ooh, nice pics. Ah the Tyne Bridge. I come over all sentimental when I see that.]]></description>
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      <author>jon</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I have a gripe with Bamburgh. It was the home and fortress of the ancient rulers of Bernicia, one of the earliest and certainly the longest lasting English 'kingdoms'. It would have been one of the most important historical sites in the country, but in the 19th century some clown of a Percy with far more money than sense destroyed the whole site by building a fake medieval castle on it. I take some comfort from the notion that by the end of the exercise he still had no sense, but no money either.

I know of Barter Books. For some reason they always have a full page ad in the Festiniog Railway Magazine. I don't know Northumberland at all, but Newcastle is a very fine place. So is Durham. Two of my bestest photographs were taken there, and you can see them at;

http://www.omnibus-systems.co.uk/images/tyneb.jpg  and
http://www.omnibus-systems.co.uk/images/durham.jpg

(look, if the boss can plant his Gilbert &amp; Sullivan pics on the site ...)

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      <author>dave</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Angel of the North is damn spectacular. As we drove home on sunday afternoon it was peeing it down, misty, the works. As we drove past, it loomed out of the mist in a most spectacular fashion.]]></description>
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      <author>belochka</author>
      <description><![CDATA[There's the Angel of the North too, at Gateshead.  Really want to go and see that because I love Antony Gormley's sculptures.

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      <author>Dell</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Ppint. is great! He gives brilliant hugs *grin*

Though, his shop has caused me no end of problems - I based my A level Computing coursework around his shop. My tutors weren't happy about it. Oh well.

He sells a lot of good stuff. If you can find it ;)]]></description>
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      <author>dave</author>
      <description><![CDATA[You do get a lot of tourists up that way, as large(ish) towns are in fairly short supply. Plus the bookshop is advertised in all the leaflets and brochures on the area.

iirc, it was actually opened by someone who fancied running a bookshop...

&quot;Back in April 1991, and in the face of a rather large overdraft, Mary Manley decided to open a secondhand bookshop - one that would be based on the swap system and called Barter Books. Her husband, Stuart, immediately took to the idea and suggested that Mary open the shop in the front room of what was then his small manufacturing plant, located in Alnwick's magnificent old Victorian railway station. From that time a joint partnership was formed that would eventually result in what the New Statesman magazine would call 'The British Library of secondhand bookshops'&quot;]]></description>
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      <author>Simon</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Ben _
           I wasn't suggesting that there was nothing at all of interest in the north-east of England, just that Alnwick itself (which is, after all, beyond many of the sites that you mentioned) was far enough off the beaten track that the location of such an establishment there surprised me. Does it get much passing trade? Do enough tourists visit the castle (if it's open to the public; I seem to recall reading somewhere that it's still occupied) to make a bookshop nearby viable? Or is this bookshop run by somebody who's always wanted one and can afford to indulge their whims?

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