PHIL BURNHAM, CLC National Director, reports: There was a very informative post here in January about Birmingham and it’s worth re-visiting as background: Birmingham: 120 years of Christian bookselling set to continue as CLC prepare to move into former Wesley Owen premises Now zoom forwards to the present, and after a good many delays, most of … Continue reading
DESPITE WESLEY OWEN’S DECISION to close its Birmingham store as the company moves over to online-only operations, the legacy of Christian bookselling in this part of the city is set to continue with CLC Birmingham preparing to move into the vacated premises at Carrs Lane Church Centre. The shop has a remarkable history spanning 120 … Continue reading
TODAY sees the final day of trading for three branches of the former high street Christian bookshop chain, Wesley Owen: Birmingham, York (aka The Barbican Bookshop) and Kingston-upon-Thames, the latter rescued and rebranded as a CLC Bookshop when the rest of the group collapsed back in late 2009. Both Birmingham and York were already flagged … Continue reading
THE MAY/JUNE 2013 EDITION of Take Note, the free promotional magazine published by CLC Wholesale, is now available to read/download via CLC World at issuu.com. Better yet, however, the magazine — and all the offers it contains — is also being made available at an increasing number of other Christian bookshops as well, of course, as at all … Continue reading
WHOLEHEARTED CONGRATULATIONS to all the CRT2012 Award Winners, with further congratulations to those award winners who have been proactive in publicising their awards: press releases and tweets included in the roundup below. This is an occasion when the UK Christian book and retail trade can rightly celebrate its achievements, and to those who haven’t shouted … Continue reading
OUTSIDE, IT’S RAINING; and as I prepare this mixed bag of news it feels like it’s raining inside too — but no: the sun is breaking through, rainbows are appearing over Coleraine, Derby, Glasgow and Newtownards and whilst there may not be a pot of gold at the end, there’s definitely hope on the horizon. … Continue reading
CONGRATULATIONS to Petra Nemansky and the team at CLC London on their recent thanksgiving celebration for 66 years of Christian bookselling in the nation’s capital: a remarkable achievement, made all the more remarkable by the fact that they’re still there, doing it, when so many other Christian bookshops are falling by the wayside: Not only ‘still … Continue reading
CLC Updates: London and Leicester Farewell to Fools Jobs at BRF and Eden Roger Compton leaves TMD Social Media Update Special Offers around the Shops CLC Updates: London and Leicester London: CLC are relocating in central London, from Holborn Viaduct to Ave Maria Lane (photos below), just a stone’s throw from St Paul’s Cathedral. The Holborn … Continue reading
CONGRATULATIONS are in order to all involved in CLC’s official opening ceremony held on 2nd April 2011 for their new store at 23 Castle Street, Inverness, the former site of Wesley Owen and a sadly short-lived branch of Living Oasis. Colour-coordinated balloons decorated the shop front as a crowd of some 50 people gathered for well-known … Continue reading
MY THANKS TO PHIL BURNHAM, CLC National Director, for the following, in response to some questions I asked about the situation in Inverness. Phil writes: A bit of history Tommy & Cynthia Hunt began CLC Inverness as a mobile ministry to the Highlands out of the CLC Aberdeen store. Being in the area a long … Continue reading
