Description:Advertisement title: Pay a visit to W.H. Smith & Son’s Library
“You can borrow new and recent books from the shelves for sixpence a week and only threepence for older ones. For fine novels, light romance, thrillers and detective fiction, Western stories and the most popular general literature. Pay as you read 6D per week”.
W.H. Smith & Son, 28 High Street, Stone. Telephone: 64.
This advertisement was published in the Stone Guardian on Saturday 30 July 1955.
In later years, W.H. Smith moved across the road to 31 High Street, Stone. During 2025, W.H. Smith's UK high street stores were sold and became known as TG Jones, while the original W.H. Smith brand remains in airports, stations and hospitals.