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    Moore's Bookshop, Moseley Road

    I think that's the edition my mum had in her house as I was growing up- she had an interest in that area... It may have been a later edition, but certainly had the Beardsley illustrations!
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    Moore's Bookshop, Moseley Road

    Now that's a great bookshop claim to fame! :)
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    Moore's Bookshop, Moseley Road

    Ah, so maybe I've got it backwards a bit.... maybe more that it was rather old-fashioned. That would make sense, given that Moore had been running the store since the 1930s. Most interesting!
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    Moore's Bookshop, Moseley Road

    Oh, that's such a fantastic tale; My wife and I are great fans of Black Books- how strange to think that Moore's was like that in the flesh! Thanks so much Michael, I really appreciate you sharing that with me. Odd that he should act that way- one can only assume that you were not the type of...
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    Moore's Bookshop, Moseley Road

    Hello Michael- that's right. Phil had a great photo of the stretch of Moseley Road that it was on, circa 1968; it was next door to the Tallet's garage/showroom, and a few doors down from the Moseley Cinema. You can just see it on the far left of Phil's image (attached). Phil memorably called it...
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    Moore's Bookshop, Moseley Road

    Thanks Lyn- be lovely to hear if anyone remembers this place! :)
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    Moore's Bookshop, Moseley Road

    Hello everyone Yesterday I posted a thread asking about a specific building- 359 Moseley Road. The response was really wonderful, and I subsequently realised, partly due to a post from 2012 by this forum's late member Phil, that n.359 was well known to Moseley Road residents as the home of...
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