Thornton's Bookshop
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Thornton's Bookshop (locally known as Thornton's) is the oldest university bookshop in Oxford, England. It was founded in 1835 by Joseph Thornton (1808–1891). The shop was located at 11 Broad Street (opposite Balliol College), but closed after 171 years of trading on 31 December 2002. Although the bookshop is no longer open to the public, the business continues to sell via the Internet and mail order from Cowley in Oxford and Faringdon, about 20 miles from Oxford.
The old 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 (Inspector Morse)
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- A. N. Wilson
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