A bookshop which has traded for more than a century has closed, a victim of the internet and price-cutting by supermarkets and big stores.

Reids Bookshop, which has been in Cavendish Street, Keighley, since 1899, served its last customer at the weekend.

Another bookshop in the town, House of Books, has also announced it is to close. Nigel Mortimer, who runs House of Books with his wife Helen, in Church Street, has announced that the shop will shut by the end of the month.

The couple, who set up two years ago, will continue to trade online.

Reids owner Gerald Brooksbank, who had been in charge since 1973, said three staff had been made redundant.

Mr Brooksbank, 63, said: “It’s a dual problem – the internet and Amazon and discounting by supermarkets and big stores.

“As an independent, I can’t buy the books for the price they are selling at.

“We have had people leaving here with tears in their eyes when we said we were closing.”

Reids was opened in 1899 at the bottom of Cavendish Street by Luther Smith, a classics master at Bingley Grammar School, and later bought by the Reid family.

Mr Brooksbank moved the business further up Cavendish Street to its present location in 1995.

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