Unsworths Booksellers, Turl Street, Oxford

Found my old pay receipts from Unsworths Booksellers where i worked during 2001.
Lovely old bookshop with parquet floors and original wooden bookshelves, owned by Charlie Unsworth i beleive.. long time ago now..
I liked working in the basement which had an esoteric theology section and a certain atmosphere very clearly sensed on quiet mornings when there were no customers...the scent of Victorian archaeology,  ancient Egypt and mysticism.
 One friday afternoon, an Oxford character come in: a genuine witch - she was called patricia from Cowley Road i think, - all dressed in a vivid bright green dress, (Friday being Venus's day) and a black shawl, with a sculpted raven perched on her arm.. and of course a crazy visit from my lover RC trying to sell some of his father's books to finance his various vices..
Now at time of writing, it is the Oxfam bookshop. 

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Former Unsworths Booksellers, Turl Street, Oxford

Went to see #BenedictCumberbatch in Frankenstein at the National Theatre (Olivier Theatre), with C on the South Bank, London and to the entertaining 'Q & A' Event afterward to hear the main actors interviewed.  Had to queue for ages for tickets and saw Mr Cumberbatch arriving and going upstairs to change! The play went by in an instant; the most memorable image being the opening, with him writhing on the floor in agony at being created. Love this book and love the film with #KennethBranagh and #HelenaBonhamCarter

Benedict Cumberbatch as Victor Frankenstein. London 2011

'Q & A' Event