Sunset in Swindon was just magical 🌅

Farewell to the oldest bookshop in HK and I would like to share my childhood memories in Swindon with you.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ When I was in primary school, my teacher required each of us to get a Mr. Men/ Little Miss book for the lesson. As usual, I told my parent at the last moment - I need this book tomorrow. We started searching the book in different bookshops after my parent get off work, and failed to find it. We then drove to Tsim Sha Tsui, stopped right opposite to Swindon Books and my dad ran to the bookstore. ⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣ I was on the car, looking into the bookstore, wondering why he needs to run. I was hoping that he can get the book if not I will be scolded by the teacher again. Very soon, he came out with this tiny book on his hand and by the time he was on the car, the gate of the bookstore was already closing. I forgot which Mr. Men book he got, it is a blue Mr. Men. And this is what I was thinking at that moment “I want a Little Miss Book.”⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ While for my dad, this was the “recommended bookstore” for English reading books by his primary school teacher. I wish my primary school teacher tell me this too so that we don’t need to search the book all over Kowloon 🤭 Swindon is where generations of Hong Kong people bought their school textbook and English books. ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ We visited Swindon Books, the oldest bookshop in Hong Kong founded in 1918, again on its last day. 👉🏻 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐧𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩: 𝐬𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬.𝐜𝐨𝐦⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ 👈🏻⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ Second photo: From The Swindon Group ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ #explorehongkong_TsimShaTsui⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ #explorehongkong_history⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ #explorehongkong_goodbye ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ #hk #hongkong #🇭🇰 #香港 #hktravel #hktraveller #hktravelbloggers #hongkong travel #hktrip #香港旅遊 #香港旅行 #explorehongkong #discoverhongkong #hkstyle #travelgram #香港好去處 #travelasia #bookstore #Swindon #bookstagram #booklover #辰衝書店

【告別老牌英文書店】1918年創辦的香港百年老字號英文書商辰衝圖書 （Swindon Book）宣布，其屹立在尖沙咀樂道半世紀的地舖書店，將於本月31日結束營業。消息傳出後，書迷一片哀號，紛紛感嘆香港書店生意難做。​ ​ 今日雖然是工作天，疫情依然嚇人，但午後，書店內外卻是人頭湧湧，在店外拍照留念，也入店內尋覓平價心好頭，不少書架都已經空蕩蕩。而店員也忙過不停，忙着收錢，忙着解答來客疑問，連一直在響的電話也沒空接聽。有外籍女士入門後見眼前情景才知結業消息，不禁嘆道，”Oh, it’s terrible.”​ ​ 辰衝第一間店舖開設在彌敦道，在六〇年代中再搬入樂道現址。書店在上世紀一直深受新潮青年和「番書仔女」（英文中學出身）愛戴，在辰衝購買正版英文圖書曾是一件象徵階級與品味的事。​ ​ 文化人Peter Wong早在1990年以筆名「辛三原」在《號外》寫過，辰衝是香港獨一無二的英文書局。「觀乎『辰衝』在過往的表現，它在很大程度上堪稱塑造了香港土生土長知識份子在過去數十年的思潮文化，是使我們安然隨著世界步伐成長的功臣之一。或至少，『辰衝』為我們提供了一個『可能』，是他們默默耕耘的替我們訂書入書，無形中做成一個多選擇的文化知識庫，為我們在學海上提供了一條安全穩固，風雨不懼的船。問題只看我們有沒有興趣坐上這條船罷（我想，『辰衝』會較喜歡我後者的說法）。」​ ​ 攝影：劉玉梅​ ​ #Swindon #辰衝 #英文書店 #老字號 #書 #閱讀 #我就是我