Updated 26/06/2011
Ceased trading March 2011
Unit 31, The Bargate Centre, Southampton, SO14 1HF
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January 22, 2010 at 5:32 pm
Hi, please tell me that this bookshop is still trading ? ! It is the best christian bookshop for many miles and really needed, I have used this store ever since it opened and continued to do so since moving to Newbury 2 years ago!
Wesley Owen and these bookshops need to continue.
August 19, 2010 at 11:40 am
yes the book shop is still open but under another name it now has a coffie shop and a childrens play area. A very well thougt out shop
August 19, 2010 at 10:51 pm
Thanks for this note, Becky, and my apologies for not updating this page before now: update in progress even as I write.
At some point within the next week or so I’ll endeavour to update the other former Wesley Owen pages here as well…
August 20, 2010 at 9:15 am
[...] My thanks and apologies to the Rev Becky Troke whose recent comment on the former Wesley Owen > Southampton page has come as a timely reminder that I’ve allowed those pages to become a little out of [...]