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Barnardos
Bookshop
59 Penny Lane
LANCASTER Lancashire LA1 1XF
tel: 01524 847438
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Ironically Lancaster's two charity bookshops
live opposite each other in Penny Street in the pedestrianised town
centre. Barnardos is the larger of the two and due to the shape
of the shop is better laid out, giving the impression of a new bookshop.
- Jeremy Briggs 07.07.08.
Book Bargains
31 St Andrews Road South
LYTHAM ST ANNES Lancashire FY8 1PZ
tel: 01253 712015
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Open: Tuesday - Saturday 9.30 - 5.30.
It was closed on the day I was there
but looked like a medium-sized second-hand shop. - Bridget the Browser.
A very neatly laid-out shop, medium-sized,
books very well arranged and prices fair. Friendly owner. The Wanderer
08.08.08.
The Book
& Gift Shop
36 Garswood Street
ASHTON-IN-MARKERFIELD Lancashire WN4 9AF
tel: 07990 574235
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Open: Monday - Saturday 9.30 - 4.30 and some
Sundays in summer.
General book stock,but particularly local mining history and local
history books. Imports from overseas on request.
The Book
Stop's Here
Stall D9 Large Section Preston Market
PRESTON Lancashire PR2 8NE
tel: 01772 713744
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Open: Every day except Thursday 7.00 - 4.00.
Massive selection of paperback fiction, true crime & abuse cases.
Collectable hardbacks, non fiction especially crime, travel & history.
A long established local business serving the bibliophiles of Lancashire
for the best part of two decades. Also at Clitheroe's Collectors'
market every Sunday & on line sales @ ebay under name BIBUXMARKETMAN.
Books Wholesale
Unit 12
Spen Farm Ind Estate Ashworth Road Marton BLACKPOOL
Lancashire FY4 5LP
tel: 01253-698364
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Open: Monday - Friday 10.00 - 4.00.
Large range of stock fiction and non-fiction, secondhand and good
range of remainders and discounted new books. 1000 Square foot warehouse
based book shop, just at the end of the M55 motorway in Blackpool.
Worth a visit.
Bookmark
2 Victoria Road West
CLEVELEYS Lancashire
tel: ?
Open: ?
A small shop near the seafront, packed
with a mixture of hardbacks and paperbacks suitable for holiday
reading. Mainly fiction but also popular non-fiction, particularly
biographies and esoteric. You can also get your palm read there!
(Presumably that service is "while u wait") - Bridget the Browser.
The Bookshop
5-7 Garswood Street Ashton-in-Makerfield
WIGAN Lancashire WN4 9AF
tel: 07719 165105
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Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 4.00.
General secondhand bookshop.
The Border
Bookshop
61a Halifax Road
TODMORDON Lancashire OL14 5BB
tel: 01706 814721
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Open:
Monday & Wednesday - Saturday 10.000 - 5.00 closed for lunch.
Large general stock, children's and sport.
A sizeable, well-organised shop with
a good secondhand stock spread over two floors. Bridget the Browser.
Martin Bott
(Bookdealers) Ltd
28A Lee Lane
HORWICH Lancashire BL6 4JE
tel: 01204 691489 fax: 01204 698729
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Open:
Monday - Saturday 10.30 - 3.00, closed Wednesday.
The largest stock of Railway, Transport and Industrial History books
in the North. Also general books. Stock - 25000 volumes. See our
website for full details plus online catalogues and instant ordering.
Bowdon Books
and Textile Art
33 Lowergate
CLITHEROE Lancashire BB7 1AD
Tel: 01200 425333
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Open Thursday - Saturday 10 - 4.00.
General, mainly non-fiction stock, northern counties topography
and local history.
Carnforth
Book Shop
38-42, Market Street
CARNFORTH Lancashire LA5 9JX
tel: 01524 734588
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Open: Monday - Saturday 9.00 - 5.30.
A very large stock covering a broad range of subjects.
Spread over three floors with the ground
floor an ordinary new bookshop, the first and second floors are
devoted to second hand books with mainly large rooms on the first
floor and smaller rooms on the second. The big selection of stock
covers most subjects and it can take quite some time to peruse this
large shop. - Jeremy Briggs
Clitheroe
Books
29 Moor Lane
CLITHEROE Lancashire BB7 1BE
tel: 01200 444242
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Open: Tuesday & Thursday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.00
General stock as well as children's, literature and transport.
Great Grandfather's
Books
82 Towngate
LEYLAND Lancashire PR25 2LR
tel: 01772 422268
Open: Tuesday and Thursday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.30.
Over 15,000 secondhand books in most subject areas and prices ranges.
5 mins from M6 Junction 28, follow signs for Civic Centre and the
shop on left just before second set of lights.
Halewood
& Sons
37 Friargate
PRESTON Lancashire PR1 2AT
tel: 01772 252603
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Open: Monday - Saturday 9.30 - 5.30
Very large stock, specifically African, American and Australian
interest.
International
Aid Trust
Book and Record Shop
15 Albert Road
MORECAMBE Lancashire LA4 4HD
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tel: 01524 413345
One of the best charity bookshops in
the north-west, with books neatly displayed floor to ceiling in
catagories, mainly in author order, with steps readily available.
Prices range from low to fair, with many bargains and hard-to-find
gems. Friendly and welcoming. The Wanderer. 29.07.08
At the south-western end of Morecambe in
a street with a remarkable number of charity shops mainly to do
with this same local charity, this is a medium sized shop with a
remarkably diverse stock. The floor was a bit chaotic with a lot
of excess stock in boxes and piles when I was there but the shelves
were well laid out, the staff were friendly and, in comparison to
the better located Old Pier Bookshop, the shop was surprisingly
busy with people. Well worth the 10 minute walk from the centre
of town.
- Jeremy Briggs 14.08.08.
George Kelsall's
Bookshop
22 Church Street
LITTLEBOROUGH Lancashire OL15 9AA
tel: 01706 370244
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Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.00, Tuesday 1.00 - 5.00
A large general stock including art, history, northern topography,
industrial history, transport and literature. Books boughty. PBFA
member.
Lyall's Book
Shop
15 Rochdale Road
TODMORDON Lancashire OL14 5AA
tel: 07971 806624
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Open:
Wednesday & Thursday 11.00 - 4.00, Saturday 11.00 - 4.30
General stock and particularly, art, history, military and some
antiqurian.
A mixed stock spread over two floors,
welcoming to browsers. - Bridget the Browser.
Moorland
Books
1 Smithy Lane
UPPERMILL Oldham Lancashire OL3 6AH
tel: 01457 871306 map
Open:
7 days 11.00 - 5.00.
Antiquarian, rare and secondhand books bought and sold. Book finding
service and gift vouchers. Browsers welcome. Traditional secondhand
bookshop established in 1982, and under new ownership since April
2006.
A well-organised, medium-sized bookshop
with an enthusiastic owner serving the local community as well as
the tourist market. A quality, mixed stock and well worth a visit
if your journey takes you that way. - Bridget the Browser.
Not Just
Books
59 Bryn Street
ASHTON-IN-MAKERFIELD Lancashire WN4 9AX
tel: 07891 249 110
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Open: Monday - Saturday 9.00 - 4.00, closed Wednesday. Quality second-hands
books from a large range of genres. We sell driftwood mirrors, candles
and a small selection of crystals. We also offer a proof-reading
service and mail order.
Oxfam Bookshop
54 Penny Street
LANCASTER Lancashire
LA1
1XF
tel: 01524 380478 map
Ironically Lancaster's two charity bookshops
live opposite each other in Penny Street in the pedestrianised town
centre. Oxfam is the more interesting of the two with a more diverse
selection of titles plus music, comics and magazines in the rear
of the relatively narrow shop. - Jeremy Briggs 07.07.08.
The Old Pier
Bookshop
287 Marine Road Central
MORECAMBE Lancashire LA4 5BY
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tel: 01524 409360
On Morecambe seafront between the RNLI
station and the clock tower, even if you didn't know exactly where
is was located you would still find it with its large wall sign
and collection of pavement bookcases. From the outside it looks
like a typical seaside tourist targeted secondhand bookshop with
the usual paperback fodder and familiar hardbacks on the outside
bookshelves. Inside the big shop stretches off into the back of
the building with glass cases and alcoves full of books giving the
impression of a real box of delights. Unfortunately closer examination
shows alcoves blocked with book trolleys and boxes preventing access
to others, while some even have collapsed piles of books abandoned
on the floor. The shop is divided into subject sections but there
is little or no alphabetisation in them with the science fiction
section, which takes up the entire back room from ceiling to floor
plus cardboard boxes, having no discernable order whatsoever. With
the sheer amount of stock you will probably get something from the
shop, assuming that you haven't despaired at the amount of time
it takes to wade through the titles in the section you are interested
in.
- Jeremy Briggs 14.08.08.
Olive Tree
Charity Bookshop
7 Albert Road
MORECAMBE ancashire LA4 4HD
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tel: 01524 418566
In the same street as the International
Aid Trust charity bookshop, this is a very neat and tidy small charity
shop with a good general selection of titles and a pleasant welcome
from the staff. As would expected for a Christian charity, they
have a good religious selection which isn't in your face as you
walk into the shop since it takes up much of the back room.
- Jeremy Briggs 14.08.08.
Oxfam Bookshop
34 Market Place
PRESTON Lancashire PR1
2AR
tel: 01772 881590
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Oxfam
Bookshop
5 Baillie Street
ROCHDALE Lancashire OL16
1JJ
tel: 01706 355189
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Close your eyes and you can forget the
near Dickensian social conditions of Rochdale. Whether you call
it an Oxfam bookshop or not, it is nothing more or less than a traditional
second hand bookshop where browsers can spend their lunchtimes away
from the noise and tack of this East Lancs regenerating town. Well
worth a visit. Its light, spacious, with occasional jazz playing,
a small area to read at your leisure. And threatened with closure.
Please sign the petition trying to prevent this. - D Cowan 18.03.08
Riley Books
130 Union Road
OSWALDTWISTLE Lancashire BB5 3DR
tel: 01254 704
728
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Open:
Thursday - Saturday 10.30 - 5.30.
Approximately
10,000 books, specialising in first editions, history, biography,
science fiction, fantasy, horror, poetry and plays. We also have
a large stock of Folio Society books, plus transport, text books,
nature and travel. We have an additional unit at Botany Bay, Chorley
just off Junction 8 of the M61.
St Catherines
Hospice Bookshop
54 Chapel Street
CHORLEY Lancashire PR7 1BS
tel: 01772 313063 fax: 01772 695298
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website
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Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 4.00.
Massive collection of donated books on all subjects at fantastic
prices. All proceeds to St Catherines Hospice.
St Catherines
Hospice Bookshop
73 Wellington Road Ashton
PRESTON Lancashire PR2 1BX
tel: 01772 313063 fax: 01772 695298
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website
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Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 4.00
Massive collection of donated books on all subjects at fantastic
prices. All proceeds to St Catherines Hospice.
Towpath Bookshop
27 High Street Uppermill
OLDHAM Lancashire OL3 6HS
tel: 01457 877078
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Open:
Wednesday - Saturday 10.30 - 5.00 & Sunday from 11.00.
General secondhand stock.
One of the smallest secondhand shops
I've seen, being in the front room of a small terraced house, with
a mixed stock aimed at the passing tourists, but still worth a look.
- Bridget the Browser.
Windmill
Bookshop
62a Preston Road
LYTHAM ST ANNES Lancashire FY8 5AE
tel: 01253 732485
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Open:
Tuesday - Sunday 10.00 - 5.00
General secondhand bookshop.
A large stock, much of it on shelves
too high to see, let alone reach, and with books piled up on the
floor. There was some quality stock here but you had to be a vey
dedicated browser, particularly if you wanted to view the book at
the bottom of a metre-high pile of hardbacks. The owner was friendly
and knowledgeable but on a rainy day when the boxes outside have
to move inside as well, I couldn't see how you would enter the shop
at all! - Bridget the Browser.
Shop is crowded but lots of bargains to
be found and prices very reasonable. ALSO, Opening a new warehouse
just around the corner with god knows how many thousands of books.
At present they are still moving stock and organising but warehouse
is already available for public to browse, just be prepared to hunt
through boxes and move piles of books while they are setting things
straight. Owner is helpful and friendly. The Wanderer 08.08.08.
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