The next shop in the sequence was going to be Vintage Mercantile, but sadly that's closing down at the moment.
So here's the shop next door, Haystacks Juke Joint, specialist in all sorts of music from LPs to CDs. They also do films and DVDs, of course, a few books. This picture was taken in the rain, when the boxes of books out the front had been covered over with plastic sheeting.
When I first came to Hay, the shops along here were tatty old garages/sheds. One Christmas or New Year, the shopkeepers of Backfold arrived for work one morning to find that someone had broken into the shed that stood where Haystacks stands now. Then we realised that it hadn't been broken into - it had been broken out of! The way the lock was smashed had to have been done from the inside. So then we looked up, and pieced together what must have happened. Someone had fallen through the roof of the shed from the Castle above, which only has a low wall at that point, easy to fall over in the dark. They'd landed in the shed, and then managed to break themselves out. We never did find out who had fallen, but they obviously fell onto something soft.
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