Earth & Sky books.

[Guest]

Just looking through my astronomy book collection. Noticed the inside jacket of a couple. The sticker attached is Earth & Sky, Rosemary Naylor of Todmorden. Those were the days before Amazon. Wonder where she is now. Offered a very good service indeed. Looking back to the 1990's.

[JeremyS]

1 hour ago, Grumpy Martian said:

Just looking through my astronomy book collection. Noticed the inside jacket of a couple. The sticker attached is Earth & Sky, Rosemary Naylor of Todmorden. Those were the days before Amazon. Wonder where she is now. Offered a very good service indeed. Looking back to the 1990's.

You can see Rosemary Naylor at 1min15 here

 

Edited February 22, 2021 by JeremyS

[JeremyS]

The above video was from the 1989 tv prog Earth Calling Basingstoke. Can’t find the whole prog, but some excerpts here (but no Rosemary)

 

[mikeDnight]

1 hour ago, Grumpy Martian said:

Just looking through my astronomy book collection. Noticed the inside jacket of a couple. The sticker attached is Earth & Sky, Rosemary Naylor of Todmorden. Those were the days before Amazon. Wonder where she is now. Offered a very good service indeed. Looking back to the 1990's.

Rosemary Naylor - wow, that's a blast from the past! Rosemary ran a lovely little bookshop in Hebden bridge, which I visited regularly. She was a very friendly lady. Later she gave up the shop and sold her books directly from her cottage in Todmorden. If you called at her home in person, which I did regularly, she'd welcome you inside and let you brows the vast array of books in person. Whenever I turned up she'd rub her hands together, knowing I'd spend a small fortune every time.  Rosemary later left Todmorden so she could care for her elderly mother and moved down south, and so Earth & Sky came to its end.

Edited February 22, 2021 by mikeDnight