
What is recorded here
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.
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Photo: Andrew Dally · CC BY 2.0