W H SMITH TIMELINE

London: SELIA. New. 2009. First Edition. Soft Cover. 8vo 9780907370079 pp. 102. Illustrated. Please note the photograph ( WHS Abingdon 1963 ) advertising this book on is not in the book, but depicts a typical WH Smith shop of the 60s. The bookseller Charles Bossom managed this shop in the late 1960s. The book is a fascinating compilation of facts relating to the W.H.Smith business as well as the Smith family. This book provides a. wealth of information relating to the development of the W.H.Smith business starting in the late eighteenth century, first as wholesale distributors of London newspapers, next as bookstall and advertising contractors to most of the Victorian railway companies and then, starting in the early twentieth century, as retailers in most high streets, shopping centres and transport locations in the U.K. .