Comments on: Photo gallery: more former Woolies around the UK (part 3 – North East)

By: Soult's Retail View » Mystery of Shields Road ‘Woolies’ building solved

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 07:43:46 +0000

[...] of the discussions, we have already established that Byker *did* have a Woolworths prior to the most recent incarnation (store #1256) at Newcastle Shopping Park. However, this was located further up Shields Road at [...]

By: Soult's Retail View» Blog Archive » Piecing together the history of Shields Road’s old Woolies

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:40:47 +0000

[...] usually allocated sequentially from the earliest (1, in Liverpool) to the newest (e.g. 1256 for Byker’s Newcastle Shopping park store, only opened in 2004). However, prior to spotting this reference in The New Bond, I hadn’t [...]

By: Soult's Retail View» Blog Archive » From Macs to Maxx – three busy days for Tyneside retail

Fri, 24 Sep 2010 20:22:35 +0000

[...] well as Asda’s plans for the old Byker Woolies getting the green light, and Northumberland Street seeing “exploratory digging” ahead [...]

By: Soult's Retail View» Blog Archive » The Range fills the gap left by Stockton’s Big W

Sun, 01 Aug 2010 23:09:41 +0000

[...] W superstores. The 100,000 sq ft Big W store opened in October 2000; by 2004, however – as I blogged about previously – the Big W concept had already been scrapped. Just as the Tamworth Big W store was split in [...]

By: Soult's Retail View» Blog Archive » The ongoing mystery of Byker’s (possible) former Woolies

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:54:10 +0000

[...] remiss of me not to update on yet another Byker Woolworths – the most recent incarnation, at Newcastle Shopping Park, which opened in 2004 and closed following the retailer’s administration. There’s not [...]

By: Soult's Retail View» Blog Archive » Gosforth Woolies: before and after

Soult's Retail View» Blog Archive » Gosforth Woolies: before and after — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:10:23 +0000

[...] the High Street’s former Woolworths site. If you need a reminder, here’s what it looked like back in September: Former Woolworths, Gosforth (27 Sep [...]

By: Soult's Retail View» Blog Archive » Is this shop in Shields Road, Byker an old Woolies?

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:18:49 +0000

[...] spotted it back in September when I was paying a visit to the more recently closed Woolworths at Byker’s Newcastle Shopping Park. As you can see, the building could definitely use some TLC, suffering from a delapidated upper [...]

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

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:22:04 +0000

[...] there. Honourable mention must also go to the old Woolies in Gosforth – previously featured here – which I passed on the bus on the way home, and noted was now open (and busy) as The [...]