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Hudson's book shops

Marion Holdsworth said:
Just found this site.I worked at Hudsons in the late 60's to mid 70's.There were definatly lots of female booksellers so to .say that it was a career only open to men is nonsense.The shop was always at 116 New street from when it opened in 1906 until Dillons moved it to the old Midland bank building after the takeover.The shop extended across the Burlington arcade to Stephenson St.There was also a penguin bookshop attached to the main shop.Other branches were at the the university of Birmingham and the college at Gosta Green which became the university of Aston,and there was at one time a separate medical book shop which was changed into a transport bookshop.There was also an order processing department in the old Woolworth building which supplied books to schools and libraries.Hudsons, when they were Hudsons ,never sold anything other than books and maps.They were a proper and pure bookshop.We all trained for our Diploma of Bookselling which was then a national qualification.I am very proud to say that I started my bookselling career at Hudsons and it gave me a good grounding in a career which I was able to return to as my children got older
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I also worked at Hudson’s in the late 70’s mainly at College House Bookshop which was at Aston University and later at their new shop in Sutton Coldfield. I also trained for the Diploma in Bookselling and loved working there. Happy days.
 
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