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 |
