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Former Woolworths and new Alworths site, Newhaven (17 Mar 2010). Photograph by Paul Gillett
The BT Phone Book is now listing an Alworths store at 14 High Street in Newhaven, East Sussex – the town’s former Woolworths unit.
There is no further confirmation as yet, but the store … Continue Reading
Tags: Alworths, Caernarfon, Colwyn Bay, Holyhead, Llandudno, Publishers Book Clearance, The Original Factory Shop, Wales, Woolies, Woolworths
Former Woolworths in Llandudno (25 Sep 2009)
Well, that’s a coincidence. Having blogged about the former Woolworths in Llandudno just a couple of days ago, Alworths has announced today that it will be taking over the site for its 11th store – and its first in Wales.
Having been occupied by a discount book store (Publishers Book Clearance) … Continue Reading
Tags: Alloa, Alworths, Amersham, Ethel Austin, Hertford, Hoddesdon, Tiverton, Wallsend, Well Worth It, Woolies, Woolworths
Alworths fascia
Following on from my blog post about Alworths opening in the Clackmannanshire town of Alloa, it has now been confirmed that the new store will open this week, on Wednesday 21 July. The site, at 49 Shillinghill, was occupied by Ethel Austin, prior to that retailer’s collapse earlier this year.
Quoting the MD Andy Latham, Alworths’ press release about the store opening … Continue Reading
Tags: Alloa, Alworths, Co-operative Group, Dunbar, Ethel Austin, Haldanes, Hemsworth, Poundland, Somerfield, Tesco, The Co-operative Food, Wick, Woolies, Woolworths
Alworths fascia
Just a week after its first two Scottish stores opened in Forfar and Cupar, the variety store chain Alworths is now “recruiting for enthusiastic, customer focussed individuals to work at its newest store opening in Alloa in July 2010.”
Alloa, in Clackmannanshire, is exactly the type of location that we are getting used to Alworths opening stores in – a small town … Continue Reading
Tags: Alworths, Cupar, Forfar, Pound-Mart, Woolies, Woolworths
Screenshot of STV's coverage
Alworths in Cupar opened today, taking over the premises that were latterly Pound-Mart and, before that, Woolworths.
The fledgling chain’s first foray into Fife – and Scotland – ahead of another store opening, in Forfar, on Friday, has unsurprisingly prompted some decent media coverage, including from BBC News and … Continue Reading
Tags: Alworths, Byron Place, Ethel Austin, Life & Style, Seaham, Woolies, Woolworths
Former Woolworths, Seaham (2 April 2010)
Recent comments on this blog about the former Woolworths in Church Street, Seaham have given me the nudge that I required, having taken some photos of the store back in April but not yet got round to writing about it.
Just like the … Continue Reading
Tags: Alworths, Amersham, Brentford, Clas Ohlson, Edgware Road, Harrow, Kingston-upon-Thames, Peacocks, Pinner, Poundstar, Sports Direct, TK Maxx, Waitrose, Woolies, Woolworths
Former Woolworths (now Alworths) in Amersham (14 May 2010)
While staying in London a couple of weekends ago, Alworths in Amersham (above) wasn’t the only former Woolworths I managed to visit…
Having arrived at King’s Cross, first stop was the St George’s Centre in Harrow, where the large, two-storey former … Continue Reading
Tags: Alworths, Amersham, Cargo, Cupar, Forfar, Julian Graves, New Milton, Pound-Mart, Robert Dyas, Silverscreen, The Entertainer, Vergo Retail, WHSmith
Alworths fascia
It seems that the ‘son of Woolworths’ chain Alworths has two new stores in the offing. Fife Today is reporting that Alworths will be opening up in the former Woolworths store in Cupar, while jobs are already being advertised for a new store in Forfar, in Angus, that is due to open in June.
If confirmed, these … Continue Reading
Tags: Alworths, Co-op, Cosham, Haldanes, Portsmouth, Somerfield, Woolies, Woolworths
Alworths fascia
…and it’s going to be in Cosham, a northern suburb of Portsmouth, Hampshire.
Due to open in February, this will be the first new Alworths store since the initially flurry of five stores that launched back in November. With a total of 22 stores slated to open during Alworths’ first year, one assumes that further announcements will be forthcoming over the coming months.
So … Continue Reading
Tags: Alnwick, Alworths, Boyes, Iceland, M&Co, Morpeth, Newcastle, Northumberland, Proudlock House and Home, Threshers, Woolies, Woolworths
Former Woolworths (now M&Co), Alnwick (23 Jan 2010)
I’m ashamed to say that in more than a decade of living in the North East, I’d never – until yesterday – paid a proper visit to the attractive and historic Northumberland market town of Alnwick – named by Country Life magazine, in 2002, as the “best place to live … Continue Reading
Tags: Alworths, Andy Latham, Chester-le-Street, Claire Robertson, Matthew Hardcastle, Shop Direct, Wellworths, Woolies, Woolworths, Woolworths.co.uk
Shop Direct's Woolworths.co.uk
Just a quick post this evening, but I wanted to flag up a well-written and interesting article by Kiran Stacey in yesterday’s Financial Times, entitled “The fight to be Woolworths’ heir”.
The piece covers some of the same themes as my own blog posts about Wellworths, Alworths and … Continue Reading
Tags: Alworths, franchising, Shop Direct, Wellworths, Woolies, Woolworths
Vacant former Woolworths store
An interesting story in today’s Times about what it claims is Shop Direct’s plan to “bring Woolworths back to the high street”, with “room for up to 200 stores under the famous red fascia”.
Of course, some might well claim that Woolworths has already been brought back to the high street in the form of … Continue Reading
Tags: Alworths, Amersham, Didcot, Dorchester, Evesham, Stornoway, Wallsend, Warminster, Wee W, Well Worth It, Wellworths, Wokingham, Woolies, Woolworths
Alworths in Amersham
Following in the footsteps of Dorchester’s Wellworths, Stornoway’s Wee W and even Wallsend’s Well Worth It, the latest ‘son of Woolworths’ store – Alworths – opened the doors to its second store in Amersham, Buckinghamshire yesterday.
To date, the various Woolies ‘offspring’ have tended to be one-off, locally-driven responses to the … Continue Reading