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The Town Built on Books
Home of the largest secondhand bookstore in the world, the town of Hay-on-Wye on the Welsh/English border is now a popular destination for book lovers and holiday makers for the leisure activities and spectacular scenery. The man responsible for turning Hay into a Mecca for the bibliophile is the self-proclaimed king of Hay, Richard Booth. When Booth started his first secondhand bookstore there in 1961, Hay was a picturesque but dying town of fewer than 2,000 people. The town had gradually declined along with the local farming economy, and many of its businesses had closed. Booth began began to pack the many empty buildings with books. In due course he filled up the old workhouse, a chapel, a movie theater, and even Hay Castle. An estimated 8 ½ miles of book shelving wend their way through Hay-on-Wye; price is low, and as the King says: no book is worthless, there's always someone in the world who wants it. |
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