The famously quirky Osterley Bookshop is closing down

West London’s much-loved curio, a bookshop in an old tube station, will be closing as a bookshop, the owners have announced, although they will remain in the building.
Osterley Bookshop (c) ianVisits
The bookshop is based inside the ticket office of the original Osterley & Spring Grove tube station, which opened in 1883 but closed as a tube station in 1934 when a replacement Osterley station opened on the main road.
The old station building was used as a shop by a succession of owners