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June 27, 2003, 7.08am • No comments (be first!) » • 1,199 Views
Bookish town opens new chapter
It worked for Hay. Now a run-down industrial town is looking to become south Wales’ literary capital.
Blaenavon is trying to reverse its declining fortunes by becoming an unlikely Mecca for book-lovers, and this Saturday will declare itself “Booktown”.
Ten new bookstores have just opened behind boarded-up shopfronts in the Torfaen town afflicted by industrial decline and a shrinking population in recent years.
It is already pulling in tourists from across the world, say backers, who are betting that book power will prove a money-spinning draw to revitalise the town.
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