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Hundreds form human chain to move thousands of books for a local bookstore

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Hundreds form human chain to move thousands of books for a local bookstore

Nov 04 2018

The plea went out a few weeks ago from October Books in the port city of Southampton, England: “Care to lend a hand?”

Volunteers were needed to help the store move to a new location about 500 feet down the road--a move made possible by a fundraising campaign that allowed the beloved local store to buy its new location for over half a million pounds (about $650,000) thus protecting it from future rent increases--which had forced it out of its former building.

This past Sunday, a human chain began forming from the old October Books stockroom, snaking past 54 doors to the new building. Hand-to-hand, the chain of people passed thousands of books over a few hours.

“It was very moving,” Ms. Haynes said, adding that the employees were “all getting choked up” about how members of the community had leapt to help out.

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