Index Books to close :(

[trabuquera]

Is it really? How can it be that Brixton can support yet another fish market but not a bookshop?

erm, because there are more people around willing to spend their cash on fish to eat than there are people who want to buy books to read?

(sad but probably true imho. but probably also down to the profit margins being higher in the fish business than the books biz...)

 

[citydreams]

I thought we were supposed to be running out of fish. What will they sell then? Ice?

 

[rennie]

putrid smells more like it.

 

[Dubversion]

i popped into Camberwell on Monday to have a look in Wordsworth (in the arcade behind McDonalds). They closed down on Saturday

 

[articletwo]

i popped into Camberwell on Monday to have a look in Wordsworth (in the arcade behind McDonalds). They closed down on Saturday

I discovered it shut on Tuesday; it's a real shame, it was a great place. There is an article about it here: http://www.camberwellonline.co.uk/blog/2005/12/wordsworth-books-in-peril/

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Shit! I had a deposit on a book they were trying to order for me. Arse!

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Actually that has pissed me right off. They had my number and could have rung me.

 

[Dubversion]

they used to be a chain didn't they? i have memories of one just past St Leonard's Church in Streatham, and isn't the bookshop in Clapham a Words Worth too? in fact, is that even still there?

 

[tarannau]

they used to be a chain didn't they? i have memories of one just past St Leonard's Church in Streatham, and isn't the bookshop in Clapham a Words Worth too? in fact, is that even still there?

I think I remember the one in Streatham too. Roughly opposite the Christian bookstore ('Manna' or something), and near to one of those BBQ pit eateries. Got a suspicion that it closed down some time ago too, unless I've managed to remove the shopfront from my memory.

 

[Dubversion]

that's the one

 

[boohoo]

I think the Camberwell bookshop lost alot of business when they re-did the arcade. Somebody mentioned that the second-hand book shop in Elephant and Castle is closing soon. Will there be any book shops left?

 

[Dubversion]

Tlon is closing?

oh fucksticks. i love that place.

Oval Bookshop is still there, but (speaks it low) it's a bit shit.

there was an article about this in the Guardian Review at the weekend, about how many small indie bookshops are their own worst enemy. But the sad thing is, i don't think the argument applied to Words Worth really

 

[boohoo]

Tlon is closing?

It'll have to close when they pull down the shopping centre. Not sure where it could move to.

 

[lang rabbie]

Actually that has pissed me right off. They had my number and could have rung me.

I spent the best part of an hour (and £40 after 25% closing down discount ) in Wordsworth Camberwell on Saturday 7th. One of their staff appeared to be phoning every customer they were still holding an order for and reminding them of the closing down date.

 

[lang rabbie]

It'll have to close when they pull down the shopping centre. Not sure where it could move to.

The stores in the E&C shopping centre continue to trade.

But negative stories about its future (whether arising from the political spat between Southwark Council and the Mayor/Val Shawcross over alleged racist approaches to traders or just naive assumptions that there is no relocation strategy for small shops) are not helpful to the small independent traders like Tlon if everyone starts thinking there is no reason to visit the Elephant

 

[boohoo]

Someone went to try and sell them some books the other day and this person told me that the shop was closing. I just can not imagine where in the local area it could relocate where it could continue to get the traffic of people that the Elephant does. Walworth road? That misses all the traffic from brixton way. Kennington Road - not really a centre for shopping so people would have to have a strong reason to go that way. New Kent Road - same reason. The best suggestion would be to move the shop to Lower Marsh as there is a lot of footfall and only one other second hand bookshop. Also that street has several second-hand (vintage) clothing shops which means that its visitors are comfortable with second hand items.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I spent the best part of an hour (and £40 after 25% closing down discount ) in Wordsworth Camberwell on Saturday 7th. One of their staff appeared to be phoning every customer they were still holding an order for and reminding them of the closing down date.

They weren't holding a book, just my deposit

 

[Mr Retro]

The Clapham Bookshop on Clapham High Street is under pressure too.

 

[lang rabbie]

They weren't holding a book, just my deposit

That's unacceptable if they knew they were closing down.

 

[PacificOcean]

The Clapham Bookshop on Clapham High Street is under pressure too.

Is that the one next to the Two Brewers? That has been there since I was a small kid (28 now).

 

[Mr Retro]

Is that the one next to the Two Brewers? That has been there since I was a small kid (28 now).

Thats the one.

 

[gaijingirl]

Thats the one.

That's been threatening to close down for years now I thought ... I'm always surprised when I see it still there...