Comments on: Mother and son join forces to save Walsall’s Christian Bookshop

By: Join Phatfish, Live, at The Hub, Walsall: Grand Opening at 1pm today « UKCBD: The Christian Bookshops Blog

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:31:57 +0000

[...] Mother and son join forces to save Walsall’s Christian Bookshop (25/01/2010) [...]

By: News Roundup: Carlisle, Harrogate and Walsall « UKCBD: The Christian Bookshops Blog

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:42:17 +0000

[...] This week — 1pm, Thursday Feb 25th — sees the official opening of The Hub, Walsall… [...]

By: Luke

Luke — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:01:03 +0000

Though I can not comment on Brighton, I can indeed confirm that the lease for Walsall is back in the landlords hands. We are finalising the terms as we speak, but expect to take over the lease in the next few days.

Baker Tilley have been quite helpful in this regard, and have certainly made this part of the process very easy, and we would like to thank them for that. We just look forward to getting in there and getting set up.

Luke

By: David

David — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:42:33 +0000

Thank you Phil for this update as Baker Tilley this morning told me that they had handed back the leases for both Brighton and Walsall branches.

By: Luke

Luke — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:29:29 +0000

Good question… as well as a bookshop owner, I have in the past also dabbled in graphic design, and my version of Acrobat defaults to producing print-ready PDFs including imbedded fonts and super-high-res images… but i guess for this, it’s a little overkill.

I’ll make sure a more bandwidth-friendly version makes it into the wild soon enough just as soon as my EPOS app finishes importing the STL stock database. (It’s a 6.4mb XLS file!!!! talking about massive files. So far it has been going for an hour, and has imported only 18,000 of the 65,000 products on there!)

By: Matt Wardman

Matt Wardman — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:44:59 +0000

Excellent news.

(Inn the meantime I’m trying to work out why a 1 page press release is 1.3Mb!)

By: Luke

Luke — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:28:55 +0000

Hi all.

Thanks for the support. Really makes all the difference.

We’re really excited about everything, if a little nervous about all the work involved.

We’ll certainly keep you posted as things develop. Your prayers in this transitional period would be much appreciated. So far, we’re all just working really hard to ensure the doors don’t stay closed any longer than necersarry.

Luke

By: Amy Boucher Pye

Amy Boucher Pye — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:29:52 +0000

Fabulous news! Encouraging for an otherwise misty Monday morning.

By: Melanie C

Melanie C — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:08:56 +0000

Fantastic news, well done Luke & Christine.
Welcome to the indie world and if there’s ever anything I can do to help just yell!