- Thornton's Bookshop
Thornton's Bookshop (locally known as Thornton's) is the oldest university bookshop in
Oxford ,England . It was founded in1835 byJoseph Thornton (1808–1891) inMagdalen Street .From 1870 the bookshop was located at 11 Broad Street (opposite
Balliol College ), continued as a family business by five generations of the Thornton family and from 1983 by the Meeuws family, but closed on31 December 2002 . The business continues to sell via theInternet andmail order from Cowley in Oxford andFaringdon , about 18 miles from Oxford. In Faringdon the antiquarian section can be found within the premises of theWhitehorse Bookshop .The shop premises on Broad Street were frequently used for television adaptations like "Brideshead Revisited" and the last "Inspector Morse" programme, "
The Remorseful Day ". Visitors to the shop included many authors and other well-known people such as:*
Rowan Atkinson
*Isaiah Berlin
*Umberto Eco
*Susan Hill
*P. D. James
*Elizabeth Jennings
*Aung San Suu Kyi
*T. E. Lawrence
*John le Carré
*C. S. Lewis
*Iris Murdoch
*Michael Palin
*John Thaw (asInspector Morse )
*J. R. R. Tolkien
*A. N. Wilson External links
* [http://www.thorntonsbooks.co.uk/ Thornton's website]
* [http://www.headington.org.uk/oxon/broad/buildings/south/11.htm 11 Broad Street]
* [http://www.thorntonsbooks.co.uk/white-horse-bookshop.htm/ Thornton's now in Faringdon ]
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