'I own a 105-year-old bookshop - but I'm not really a reader'
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Angela O'Connor Holman's has been a bookshop since 1920
Mrs O'Connor has been running the business since 2014, but it wasn't until the 2020 lockdowns that she discovered the shop she had bought had such a fascinating past. "I'm not a reader at all, my husband's the one that enjoys reading in the family, so I started taking up the history books that we've got on the shelf and reading those to see if I could get any glimpse into Holman's history," she says. "I didn't realise the buildings were that old. So then when the lockdown allowed us to do more I went to the county records office in Northallerton." She found out that half of the shop had been purchased by Ernest and Ada Holman in November 1920, be
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