I'd like to add CEX to that short list of destinations. There's a decent Oxfam bookshop in Lancaster, and a couple of nice doodad shops but there's not much else.

We always visit CEX but I’ve never bought anything. We go to see how much things are.

I've bought the odd thing, mostly old DVDs and BluRays. It used to be HMV, but it's not there anymore and besides, HMV doesn't really know what it is now. It's a mash up of Forbidden Planet and the local sweetshop. If you look carefully there's a few records about.