Here's Broad Street Book Centre, with Rest For The Tired B&B above it, and the Black Swan holiday cottage next door. The building is one of the oldest in Hay, along with the Three Tuns and Old House on the other side of the road junction.
The Black Swan was a pub until just after the Second World War - and was popular because it had a piano.
When I first came to Hay, the shop was Colin's Restaurant, and had a grand piano in there. After that, it was a bookshop (Keith, the book seller, had a lovely old black labrador, and was an expert on Arnold Bennett's works), and then it became a mixture of antique and book units, with the books gradually taking over.
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