This shop is being renovated as I type so will hopefully be bigger and better once it is done…read more The shop itself sells a wide range of newspapers and magazines and children love the sweet section. they also sell great cornish (and other) pasties (hot) at lunchtime and a variety of cakes etc. The cornish pasties are the best in Hereford in my humble opinion. Although I haven't had one in a while so I hope they haven't changed supplier They also have a small range of toys and quite a good range (for a small shop) of groceries and things like greetings cards/stationary Soooo the shop is good. The staff however, are as about as rude as they get to be honest. It seems fine if they know you but you are treated like an outcast if they don't! The lady who works every morning has to rate as one of the rudest shop workers I have ever met. She will not look at customers (she looks away and almost sneers) and is abrasive in the way she talks. And she slams the change into your hand for good measure. Like I said, I like the shop, and her attitude (the other staff are similar, it has to be said) doesn't out me off using it every now and again but I always feel like a piece of muck when I leave there!!! Maybe it's just me?

I could get lost and spend the rest of my life in this wonderful library. The selection is almost…read moreinfinite.

I always get the feeling that The Chained Library inspired Terry Pratchetts Unseen University…read moreLibrary where the books had lives of their own (and magic as all books do) and had to be chained down. There were books at Hereford Cathedral long before there was a 'library' in the modern sense. The cathedral's earliest and most important book is the eighth-century Hereford Gospels; it is one of 229 medieval manuscripts which now occupy two bays of the Chained Library. Why were the books chained? Well books were valuable and this stopped them being stolen. Hereford Cathedral's seventeenth-century Chained Library is the largest to survive with all its chains, rods and locks intact. The books have a chain attached and then they are attached at the other end to the shelf. This means you can carry them to a desk and read them but that is as far as you would get with them. No way to pop them in your bag and go. :0) The new display shows how it was originally and is available for research (you can just visit and look). I have been priviledged to study in many great libraries but this one does not have guards standing over you as you can't nick them. There has been a working theological library at the cathedral since the twelfth century. The Mappa Mundi is a medieval treasure, quite large and quite fascinating. (and amusing). It is a map of the world as 13 th century scolars thought it was. The map bears the name of its author 'Richard of Haldingham or Lafford' (Holdingham and Sleaford in Lincolnshire names and spellings change over the centuries). Recent research suggests a date of about 1300 for the creation of the map. Superimposed on to the continents are drawings of the history of humankind and the marvels of the natural world. Here be dragons..wonderful. This is probably the most important map in the world. C'mon history can be fun!!!

Though owned by the same people who own Game it seems to be a far better video game shop with far…read morefriendlier staff, and a wider range of games (especially pre-owned games). The pre-owned games also seem better priced.

Stocks most games. Good layout. Boys love it in hereread more