I managed to make it over to the Pop Up Bookshop in Wolverhampton and there is certainly a lot of books considering it is only has a temporary stay for a few times a year. Unfortunately there wasn’t anything that caught my eye although it seemed well attended with people holding handfuls of books but they looked a little newer that ones I was after. If you are thinking of going here is the location and opening times again. It’s in the Community Hub in the Mander Centre until 21st March and the opening hours are Monday to Friday 10am to 5pm, Saturday 9.30am to 5pm, Sunday 11am to 4pm.
We didn’t make it to our annual stay in the camper on Warwick Racecourse before Christmas last year as unfortunately it was our sister in laws funeral in Bridlington. So to avoid loosing our booking fee we moved it to last week when the site reopened and of course we had to visit the secondhand book shop at the NT property of Baddesley Clinton on the way over. The photo shows just one of the several rooms they have, I think this one was mainly non fiction. They have made over a £1,000,000 from books donated by visitors including us. I bought three for 50p each and was convinced I hadn’t got two of them and of course I was wrong. One of the perils of not having wi-fi to check. One being ‘Inspector West Makes Haste’, another being ‘War Story’ with interesting stamps inside and the third being ‘A Radio for Kevin’ in the Wellington Square reading series. I had to have this although modesty forbids me mentioning who wrote the software for the BBC Model B computer to accompany this series. They are having their annual Book Fair from August 8th for three weeks so hopefully we won’t be away this year. While we were over there I visited several charity shops but the one secondhand bookshop in Warwick was closed at the time. We did got to the MAD Museum in Stratford which we can highly recommend if you are around there although nothing to do with books.
Our blue camper parked up at Warwick Racecourse site right by the finishing post. The other vehicles are not as close as they look but those JCB flags really made a noise as they rattled on their posts every time the wind blew.
It was down to Westbury yesterday (08/03/2026) to the Book Fair and Open Day at Zardoz Books organised by Maurice Flanagan where we also bumped into Jules Burt. It was busy with more people turning up as we left. I came away with three books, three David Tayler roughs and a big blue box of mystery items related to David Tayler. I’ll be working my way through it and items will be appearing in future blogs.
