Wednesday, September 26, 2007

COMMUNIST BOOK SHOPS - LONDON
By Dave Cope

Hayes Thames Bookshop (later Progressive Bookshop) 83 Station Road, Hayes

1942 (prob. 1941)
a) Acton: 2 Church Road, High Street W3
b) Camden: 45 Parkway NW1 (gone by Feb 1949)
c) Peckham: 91 Peckham High Street SE15 (gone by Feb 1949)
d) Hayes: 83 Station Road [later Progressive Bookshop] gone by 1949 ?
e) Tooting: 28 Mitcham Road SW17 Closes 1949.
f) Stepney: 19 Whitechurch Lane, E1.
Had moved by 1943 to 20 Whitechapel High Street E1 (gone by Aug 1949).
1943 g) Harrow: 360 Station Road gone by 1949?
Feb 1946 h) Kingston: 29 Fife Road Kingston on Thames, Surrey
Feb 1949 i) 174 Royal College Street, NW1 Closes 1950.
Feb 1949 j) Moorgate: 151 Moorgate EC1. Closes later in 1949.
Nov 1949 k) 100 Woolwich High Street SE18
Nov 1949 l) 363 Cambridge Heath Road E2
Nov 1949 m) 1 Datcheler Place, SE5
Nov 1949 n) 23 Mason's Avenue, Wealdstone
Aug 1950 o) 421 Garrett Lane, SW18
Aug 1950 p) 75 Farringdon Road, EC1

1967 61 South Road, Southall, West Middlesex District Literature Department.
1974 Atlas Books, 221 The Broadway, Southall, West Middlesex District



1934 (Feb) Workers' Bookshop 31 Dudden Hill Lane, Willesden NW10, (in Feb 1934 this shop, called the "Unthanks Bookshop", acted as publisher for Inprecorr; later in 1934 it moved to 370 High Road, Willesden)

Workers' Bookshop 8 Goldhawk Mews, Hammersmith Workers' Bookshop 249 King St, Hammersmith

1934 New Books 12 Argyll Gardens, Burnt Oak


Ted Ainley worked in the West Middlesex Communist Party bookshop from 1952-53