I Like the Dead Bees on the Windowsill

There’s some things that money can’t buy.  Like the love I’ve found in a little bookshop off Russell Square.  Yes, love.  You know… well, not love so much, more… freedom.  Well, not really freedom.  More kind of a largeness of heart…  Well, not really largeness of heart… or freedom… or love…  But, uh, I was never contractually obliged to sleep with foreign businessmen, alright?  – Manny

I discovered that the outdoor filming location for Black Books is about five feet away from my dorm.  Best of all, it’s actually a bookshop: Collinge & Clark on Leigh Street in Bloomsbury, founded in 1987, it “deals almost exclusively in private press books and books on typography.”

Here’s my photo, followed by a screenshot from the show:

Across the street, the pub where Bernard taunts the skinheads in the first episode.

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