From 1870, the bookshop was located at 11 Broad Street (opposite Balliol College), continued as a family business by five generations of the Thornton family[4] and from 1983 by the Meeuws family, but closed at the end of 2002.[3] The shop premises on Broad Street were frequently used for television adaptations like Brideshead Revisited,[citation needed] and the last Inspector Morse episode, The Remorseful Day.[5]
The premises are now occupied by "The outlet shop".