Broadhursts ofSouthport

Broadhursts of Southport has traded from 5-7 Market Street since 1920, when Charles Kenyon Broadhurst opened the shop on returning from active service in the First World War, funded by a loan from his wife's mother. Charles remained at the business for over sixty years and later served as president of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association for 1965-66. The shop occupies four floors of a listed mid-nineteenth-century building: a new bookshop at ground level, a children's department, eight second-hand book rooms holding upwards of 100,000 titles, and two rare book rooms. Laurie Hardman, who joined the shop in 1969, later bought the business and ran it for thirty-seven years, and Broadhursts remains in family hands today. The bookshop trades from this single Southport address, alongside an online catalogue for its rare and second-hand stock.