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The books are a great score, look to be in very nice condition. Checking my local bookshops seems to be an exercise in futility unless you want copies of 50 Shades of Grey, and Jilly Cooper.
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Luckily due to the proximity of a local steam railway there are some shops that specialise in train stuff, and so seem to have military sections as a little brother to the main trainy nonsense
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All decent bookshops will have a "Military" section, but what it covers, beyond WW2 and some modern conflicts, depends entirely on who has died recently (see our Norm for details/assistance) and had their former home cleaned out by disinterested/money-grubbing relations. Wargaming/modelling stuff is even rarer, but as GM says, if there is a decent (model) railway section you never know what might turn up.

There used to be a massive (like three floors, plus both sides of two not terribly wide staircases) second hand Grade II bookshop in Guildford called Thorp(e)'s (bizarrely there was no "e" on the sign over the front window, but it has since been included in all modern descriptions of the property), with fantastic history and modelling sections, but sadly it went the way of all flesh in 2003 after over 100 years in business and still run by the same family. Very sad.

Don't think I've ever seen all that (relevant) Blandford goodness in one place before, but then I've only started looking for WW2 stuff in the past year or so.
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They were actually in 2 shops but £7 for the lot seemed quite a deal.

I love a Blandford, no matter what the subject. Military that is, none of your trams or farm machinery....
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Well quite - we wouldn't want people thinking we were weird or anything like that, now!
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We're not weird. Bus spotters are seriously weird.
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Buff Orpington wrote: Sun Feb 09, 2020 7:13 pm We're not weird. Bus spotters are seriously weird.
We know Buff, but we promised not to tell anyone about you.
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I have a number of oddities but, happily, that isn't one of them.
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So it wasn't just because they knew you then?
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One of those nut/screws/washers/bolts multi-drawer organisers - plastic this time to replace the old metal one which now needs all the drawers inside (and full) just to keep it remotely rigid. I hope it does a better job of organising its contents than the old one, as I had to keep doing that myself.
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