Borders bookstore on Oxford Street to close

[Bungle73]

Foyles have bought the old Saint Martins Deco building (which I love, 'cos I went there ) next door to them in Charing Cross Rd.
It will be the largest bookshop in the world !

A few years ago it was the largest bookshop in the world.

No, it is part of HMV.

Waterstones used to be owned by WH Smith but they sold the chain quite a while ago.

 

[editor]

T'was a forlorn sight today:

http://www.urban75.org/london/goodbye-borders.html

 

[Stobart Stopper]

Fridgemagnet is always the last one left in the mod's staff room.

 

[Pickman's model]

T'was a forlorn sight today:

fridgemagnet left behind at borders, to be swept out in the morning.

 

[Stobart Stopper]

Fridgemagnet going through the Editor's porn stash.

 

[Missez]

I was in there last week and was sad to see it closing down. When I asked one of the shop assistants what had happened to the Science Fiction section she turned out to be a former pupil of mine. She'll be out of a job once the store closes

Apparently it's going to be turned into a New Look. Just what we need.

 

[fogbat]

T'was a forlorn sight today:

http://www.urban75.org/london/goodbye-borders.html

Larry David grabs some last minute bargains...

 

[se5]

In Swindon they are demonstrating at the loss of their Borders: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/8168612.stm with petitions, a facebook group and everything.

To my mind it was a strange location for a bookshop in the first place - an out of town retail park where I wouldnt have thought there was much demand for bookshops anyway (and good Waterstones in the centre of town)

 

[editor]

The whole lot of them are closing this week, dumping over 1,100 people on the dole on Christmas Eve.

Here's the last days of the Charing Cross Road branch.

http://www.urban75.org/london/borders-charing-cross-closes.html

 

[fogbat]

Closing down shops are always heartbreaking, but I was wandering through the Borders on Charing Cross a few days back, and found that bookshops closing is particularly sad

Cracking pic, mind

 

[madamv]

Ours in Bournemouth is also going.... Its rather irritating because when they opened, they put an independent out of business a few shops up. It sold old secondhand books too, and was full of character.

I went there a couple of weeks ago and everything was only 20% off except for the business section which was 50% off

 

[editor]

Ours in Bournemouth is also going...

They're all going on Dec 24th.