A Macclesfield broadside
The Heritage Centre, built in 1814 as a Sunday school for the town’s mill working children, is one Macclesfield’s most iconic landmarks. These days this handsome building houses a charming cinema where children once studied the scriptures and the Silk Merchant Shop and Tea Room where ‘the Knobbler’ once rounded up tardy students.
With a nod to the Sunday school’s reverence for the written word, the Heritage Centre will host in February the first in a series of Antiquarian Book Fairs. Organised by Roger Treglown who for many years chaired the Chelsea Book Fair in London on behalf of The Antiquarian Booksellers Association ( ABA ) and is the only member of the ABA in Cheshire. Roger brings his love of books and wealth of experience to the Heritage Centre where visitors will be able to browse and purchase a diverse selection of publications from ‘incunables’ ( pre AD1500) to twenty first century 1st editions from a wide range of specialist dealers.
Roger told us ‘Not only books will be on show but fascinating examples of old ephemera, pamphlets and interesting pieces of old news literature’. So visitors will be able to scrutinise a unique ‘Thesis on squint’ from 1936 or a fascinating Macclesfield broadside * from 1858 warning of the proliferation of public libraries and their menace to the private establishments such as the Macclesfield subscribers library!
So if standard high street shops bore you rigid and you have a palate for old and unusual books, an hour or two spent browsing at the forthcoming Heritage Centre Book Fair is a must and an exciting initiative for the book lovers of Cheshire too.
Further details from Jane Munro 07981 128454
Heritage Antiquarian Book fairs 2012
Saturday 18 February
Saturday 12 May
Saturday 29 September
Saturday 15 December
10am-4pm
Heritage Centre
Roe Street
Macclesfield
Sk11 6UT
· The Heritage Centre is part of the Macclesfield Silk Heritage Charitable Trust
· It houses one of the three Museums in Macclesfield
· *Full details available on request.
· Free Book Fair entry
· Ample parking
· Refreshments in Mulberry Tree Tea Room
