MEMORIES: Reference readers love to bag a bargain . . . that’s a fact

BOOKWORMS love a bargain, and heaven help any poor reader who got in the way of an eagle-eyed buyer at the annual Mitchell Library book sale in today's photograph, taken in 1982.

The event, a chance for the Charing Cross library - the largest public reference collection in Europe - to refresh its shelves, is quite clearly not for the fainthearted.

Everyone seemed to be elbowing each other aside in their attempt to get first dibs on books which would otherwise be destined for the dumper.

Come closing time, you can guarantee that all that was left were a few dog-eared maths books and some out-of-date science textbooks.

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