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journalist Susie Steiner featured the replica posters as a Christmas gift suggestion, raising their profile still further. Other companies followed the Manleys' example, and the design rapidly began to be used as the theme for a wide range of products. Mary Manley later commented, "I didn't want it
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poster from 1939 with the message "Keep Calm and Carry On". The shop owners framed it and hung it up by the cash register; it attracted so much interest that Manley began to produce and sell copies.
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The shop also houses a cafe called The Station Buffet which serves hot food all day to customers at tables in the original tiled waiting rooms of the railway station.
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in 1968; Barter Books was opened in 1991. It is open every day including bank holidays except for Christmas Day.
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In 2000 the owner discovered, in a box of old books bought at an auction, a
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trivialised; but of course now it's been trivialised beyond belief."
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is a second-hand bookshop in the historic English market town of
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Second-hand bookshop in Alnwick, Northumberland, England
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Barter Books, System Administrator (14 November 2011).
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Keep Calm and Carry On: The Truth Behind the Poster
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Alnwick railway station
Alnwick
Northumberland
British Library
Alnwick railway station
Alnwick branch line
barter system

Keep Calm And Carry On
Alnwick, Northumberland
World War II
Guardian
Book trade in the United Kingdom
"A Novel Experience - A Visit to Barter Books Alnwick"
Archived
"Visit Barter Books | Stay With Us"
Archived
"Mr Smith goes to . . . the second-hand bookshop"
Archived
"Aln Valley Railway and Society @"
the original
Alnwick Branch
Archived
Wayback Machine
"Barter Books"
"About"
Archived
"About Keep Calm and Carry On"
Archived

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