Did anyone work at Boots Library?

Do any of your readers remember Boots Library in Rye?
By The Newsroom
Published 2nd Mar 2017, 07:57 BST
Updated 24th Mar 2017, 11:12 BST

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Boots the chemist once had subscription libraries within their stores.

Founded by Florence Boot in 1899, they were extremely popular and in their heyday they had more than a million subscribers. Rye was home to a branch of Boots library.

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In my book ‘Lipsticks and Library Books’, former staff share entertaining anecdotes of wealthy, eccentric subscribers and a way of life that existed really not so long ago but which seems very distant from today.

Boots library in Rye probably closed in the mid 1960s.

I would love to hear from anyone who worked there.

My phone number is 01929 459207.

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