Comments on: Photo gallery: more former Woolies around the UK (part 1)

By: Soult's Retail View » On the hunt for ex-Woolies – and thriving high streets – in the Scottish Borders

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:20:25 +0000

[...] grey shopfront, echoing the investment that it’s made in other former Woolies sites such as Tamworth, Berwick-upon-Tweed (below) and Prestatyn. Former Woolworths (now Home Bargains), [...]

By: Soult's Retail View » Next and New Look open up in Perth’s former Woolworths premises

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 21:01:32 +0000

[...] partly due to my fairly sporadic visits – Perth’s Woolworths has some significance as one of the first that I photographed, back in February 2009, just a few weeks after Woolworths’ demise. Former Woolworths, Perth [...]

By: Soult's Retail View » 5-7 Southgate Street, Launceston – historic birthplace and former Woolworths

Tue, 17 May 2011 15:34:30 +0000

[...] new stores in these locations – like Launceston, Alnwick (#822, above) or Hexham (#931) – tended to occupy existing buildings. However, prior to Woolworths moving in, few [...]

By: Soult's Retail View » Readers’ ex-Woolies updates from Harrow and Finchley Road

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 20:01:15 +0000

[...] sites at the end of 2008, including one proclaiming ’70% off’ (as also seen in my photo of the Whitley Bay store, taken five days earlier) and another announcing the store’s ‘Last 3 [...]

By: Soult's Retail View » Blog Archive » Belper’s fine mix of supermarkets and indie retailers

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 23:30:33 +0000

[...] the North East Woolies sites in Hexham and Morpeth, Belper was one of the first stores to be taken over by another retailer, as part of the package of [...]

By: Soult's Retail View » Blog Archive » Bishop Auckland Boyes to open doors on 19 November

Mon, 08 Nov 2010 18:44:20 +0000

[...] in expanding into Northumberland – coming close to opening a shop in Prudhoe – and Tyneside. With its eclectic, 30,000-strong product range – including household goods, DIY, clothing, [...]

By: Soult's Retail View» Blog Archive » And Berwick-upon-Tweed makes 33…

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 23:14:54 +0000

[...] the store features the same toned down burgundy and grey fascia that I noted previously at the Tamworth and Prestatyn Home Bargains branches – both themselves former Woolies sites. Indeed, the [...]

By: Soult's Retail View» Blog Archive » One bus ticket – 11 former Midlands Woolies

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 01:28:33 +0000

[...] in Tamworth, where the old Woolworths store – now Home Bargains – has featured in this blog several times before. Given that the shop’s frontage was obscured, inevitably, by tatty market stalls, I thought [...]

By: Soult's Retail View» Blog Archive » Boyes takes over Bishop Auckland’s old Woolies – could more follow?

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:15:45 +0000

[...] I noted in October, Boyes had expressed an interest in former Woolies sites in the North East as early as March last [...]

By: Soult's Retail View» Blog Archive » Peacocks flies into Tamworth’s Ankerside centre

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 19:53:52 +0000

[...] unit to have become available in recent years is the old Woolworths in George Street, eventually snapped up by Home Bargains. Wilkinson store, Tamworth (24 Dec [...]

By: Soult's Retail View» Blog Archive » The Original Factory Shop in Morpeth – a shift towards more upmarket locations?

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:42:07 +0000

[...] the cyclical way of retail, Iceland returned to Morpeth in 2009 (in the former Woolies store opposite its original location), made a £110m pre-tax profit in the most recent financial year, [...]

By: Soult's Retail View» Blog Archive » Woolies Winter Wonderland…

Soult's Retail View» Blog Archive » Woolies Winter Wonderland… — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 10:58:14 +0000

[...] – closed on 2 January 2009, and now Home Bargains – has already been featured in a previous blog post.) Former Woolworths, Burton upon Trent (23 Dec [...]

By: Soult's Retail View» Blog Archive » One day – ten former Woolies – one tired blogger

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:25:48 +0000

[...] and though I’ve featured the town’s former Woolworths – now Iceland – before, I wasn’t going to let that stop me capturing an up-to-date photo while I was there. [...]

By: Soult's Retail View» Blog Archive » Photo gallery: more former Woolies around the UK (part 3 – North East)

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:56:50 +0000

[...] Parts 1 and 2 of my former Woolworths photo gallery, it’s time to finish up – at least [...]

By: Soult's Retail View» Blog Archive » Photo gallery: more former Woolies around the UK (part 2 – North Wales)

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:27:06 +0000

[...] month I posted photographs of eight former Woolies stores as far apart as Tamworth in Staffordshire and Perth in Scotland. Now, as promised, I’m [...]