York’s renowned ‘anti-bookshop’ is to be turned into a house | Business - YorkMix

One of Britain’s most idiosyncratic bookshops is set to become a house by YorkMix.  

The window of Stone Trough books.
Photo: Rachel Rogers

Stone Trough Books on Walmgate was run for more than 30 years by George Ramsden, a true character even among the notoriously eccentric world of booksellers.

More a collector and cataloguer of books than a shopkeeper, he was renowned for reconstructing the library of famous US novelist Edith Wharton.
And he was very honest about his abilities as a salesman. “Things tend to go better if I walk away from the customer,” he once said...

The shop recently achieved fame as one of the locations in film Mad To Be Normal. David Tennant, playing psychiatrist RD Laing, shot a scene signing books in Stone Trough.
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Source: YorkMix