Colin
Burgon MP, cuts the ribbon, 27th October 1997............
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...........whilst Leeds City Council re-surface the road outside the new Garforth Bookshop - WHAT A DAY!
Of course a speech was inevitable...
Well lets face it, this was the dawning of the 'Year of Reading'
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Colin Burgon MP, together with Roger Bernard Crossland - founder of the business............
..........ENJOYING A GLASS OF HOUSE OF COMMONS CHAMPAGNE!
Jack Downing - front left (valued customer and helper), followed by: Roger Bernard Crossland, Colin Burgon MP, Martin Anthony Crossland, and the late Greta Crossland
1999.....
The Garforth Bookshop website was launched - the 1st ever website selling books from Garforth. This has recently been restored & given a retro re release. It is now selling books again & featured on the town's official website Garforth Net
YEAR 2000.....
In 2000 we became the first bookshop to get world wide publicity for selling
BOOK TOKENS on the internet :
a new web address reflected this achievement :
This service has now become a GLOBAL HIT
'NATIONAL BOOK TOKENS ARE THE BEST WAY TO SEND A GIFT TO THE UK FROM ABROAD & THE EASIEST WAY TO BUY THEM IF YOU LIVE IN THE UK'
LOVE BOOKS, LOVE BOOK TOKENS :
Ordering NATIONAL BOOK TOKENS securely via this website surely has to be the simplest and most cost effective way to buy. Whether you live in the U.K. or wish to order from across the globe, always remember that -
BOOK TOKENS MAKE UNWANTED GIFTS A THING OF THE PAST, AS THEY GIVE THE FREEDOM OF CHOICE.
GARFORTH BOOKSHOP ALSO WAS FIRST TO PRICE MATCH
with the website 'Amazon.co.uk'
2001.....
WE BECAME THE FIRST BOOKSHOP TO LINK TO THE NEW HARRY POTTER WEB SITE.....
AND WE ALSO BECAME THE FIRST BOOKSHOP WEB SITE TO BE ACCREDITED BY THE
GUILD OF MASTER
CRAFTSMEN
and also the proud recipient of a Golden Web Award for the creation of:
FirstBookshop.com - FirstBookshop.co.uk - 1stBookshop.com - 1stBookshop.co.uk
One of the more recent developments was
The Main Street Store being acquired by
Byron Godfrey and his Family.
However, the First Bookshop web site remained under the ownership of Roger Crossland and was at that point expanded to sell UK Theatre Tokens online
IN 2004 THE WEB BUSINESS RELOCATED TO A NEW OFFICE IN BRIDLINGTON, 'TOKEN HOUSE'
EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE, UK.
We have more recently embarked on extensive advertising and marketing campaigns with the likes of Vogue magazine, GQ magazine and GOOGLE, for this website
3 NEW OPERATIONAL WEB BUSINESSES HAVE ALSO NOW BEEN ADDED TO OUR MAGICAL KINGDOM:
Garforth.Net / BridJobs.Com (2005)
and in 2006:
in conjunction with Martin Anthony Crossland
Martin & Roger are also known as THE RETAIL THERAPY GUYS - you may have heard of them!
In 2007 the national UK shopping site was launched at: www.retailtherapy.info
and on 6th May 2007 Garforth Bookshop was 20 years old!
To celebrate our online voucher shop being recognised as the leading worldwide provider of both Book Tokens & Theatre Tokens for July 2007 this popular service has been re-launched under our latest brand: sendtoday.co.uk
For 2008 we were selected for the 6th year running, as a 'specialist' in the books section of
'THE GOOD WEB SITE GUIDE'
this is for our online book vouchers service, as we were the FIRST BOOKSHOP to get world wide publicity for selling Book Tokens - the first ever book gift vouchers - on the internet and the service very quickly became a global hit
MORE 2008 DEVELOPMENTS:
new website for 'East Riding of Yorkshire Community Accountancy' at
and the ball started rolling online for 'The Employers Agency' at
The very first of our agency offices opened Tuesday 5th May 2009 at
92, St John Street, Old Town, Bridlington YO16 7JS
At 12.01am on Monday 1st February 2010 we became the very first online retailer in the world to offer for sale the new National Book Tokens Electronic Gift Card, replacing the traditional paper official book vouchers for the first time in more than 75 years!
BUY NEW BOOK TOKEN GIFT CARDS BY CLICKING HERE
The Times (London), August 16, 2000, Wednesday, Web world. "www.firstbookshop.com This enterprising bookshop has gone online to provide book tokens - seemingly an Internet first. The tokens can be exchanged at 3,000 bookshops in Britain and Ireland"
The Independent (London), August 10, 2002, Saturday, FEATURES; WORLD WIDE WEB: 10 BEST SITES OF THE WEEK. www.firstbookshop.com "This is currently the "only bookshop to offer book tokens online" (the national book gift voucher scheme). Originally a small-town bookshop, it claims to be "beating the big boys at their own game", and while it doesn't quite match Amazon for size or quality of presentation, book fiends are bound to unearth something here that appeals"
THE BEST PLACE TO SEE ALL OUR BOOKS IS BY CLICKING HERE
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