Broadhurts Bookshop looks back on year of lockdown
BROADHURSTS Bookshop in Southport has looked back on the last year of lockdown, reflecting on the people who have lost their lives due to Covid-19 and saying: “We hope it has taught us to value the important things a bit more than we did.”
As with other firms in Southport, Broadhursts – one of the town’s oldest businesses – has faced severe challenges over the past few months.
They have been closed for seven months out of the last 12, and are looking forward to being able to welcome back customers – all being well – to their shop at 5-7 Market Street when lockdown restrictions ease from April 12.
Until then, book lovers can get hold of new books, and support Broadhursts at the same time, by buying online through their bookshop-dotorg account.
A Broadhursts Bookshop spokesperson said: “A year ago we were frantically preparing to close the bookshop – voluntarily, before we knew a lockdown would be brought in
– ringing customers with orders to give them a last chance to collect, letting our regulars know not to come in.
“We thought we’d be closed for a few weeks. We didn’t open the doors again until July.
“In the last 12 months, the bookshop has been closed for seven of them. We haven’t seen some of our fellow booksellers for over a year now due to shielding. It has been a year quite unlike any other for this bookshop. But we will get through it, and we would like to thank our customers for all the support they have given us
– for shopping in the bookshop when we’ve been open, whether in person, delivery, or online, for letting us know they will be back again when the doors open once more.
“And we are hugely sad about the people we have lost during the pandemic, and for those that have been lost to those we care about, to everyone. Our hearts break at the sadness of these last 12 months. We hope it has taught us to value the important things a bit more than we did.”
Broadhursts is one of the oldest second-hand and antiquarian bookshops in the country, having been established in 1920 by Charles Kenyon Broadhurst.
The business has traded continuously since then on four floors of its listed mid-19th century building in the centre of Southport. The four floors of Broadhursts Bookshop hold a comprehensive range of books suitable for all ages, interests and pockets.
For more details please visit: www.ckbroadhurst.co.uk or call them on: 01704 532064.