Book Streets.
Members of certain professions and trades in London noticeably follow herd instinct, and congregate in one street or streets to dispose of their services or their wares. We find solicitors in Bedford Row, jewellers in Bond Street, doctors in Harley Street, and furniture dealers in Tottenham Court Road. So it is with second-hand booksellers. who have made Charing Cross Road the-ir special “quarter.” At one time their headquarters were in Holywell Street—called Booksellers Row—which lay between the two island churches of the Strand, in that part o. London which is now Aldwych. Pall Mall also at one time contained same of the bookselling fraternity. Tom Payne was in Schomberg House and Dodslev at No. 51, while in Pall Mall East Messrs Reeves kept their shop. To-day there are very few booksellers who have remained in their quarters of 3 r esteryear.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18787, 17 June 1929, Page 3
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