Richard Booth blue plaque

This blue commemorative plaque records: This plaque commemorates The Old Fire Station which was Richard Booth's first bookshop Est. 1962

Richard Booth MBE transformed the Welsh town of Hay-on-Wye into a global bookselling destination by establishing his first bookshop in an old fire station in 1962, initiating what would become known as the world's largest second-hand book village.