Chertsey Book Barn

Part of the joy of travelling back to Mid-Canterbury is the opportunity to call at the Chertsey Book Barn.

The building is an old railway goods-shed.  In earlier generations fertilizer, coal and bagged seeds would have been unloaded here, and wool and bagged grain loaded onto railway wagons for ports at Timaru or Lyttleton.

Today it houses second hand books.

The view at the door - half of it is stacked to the rafters with boxes of books

Indoors is a kind of Aladdin's Cave

Complete with Cobwebs (and a view of the rafters under that cavernous roof)

If that isn't enough, I understand that all these containers are also packed to the gills with books

Zag is part of the attraction

and I left with a pile of rainy day reading material

And I'll leave you with this verse from Sussex