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As South Shields’ Woolies is filled, there’s good news for Byker and Wallsend too

Graham Soult September 23, 2011 Fashion Stores, Property, Retail History, Woolworths 2 Comments

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Former Woolworths (now Store Twenty One), South Shields (22 Sep 2011). Photograph by Graham Soult

Former Woolworths (now Store Twenty One), South Shields (22 Sep 2011)

Store Twenty One has opened its doors in South Shields today, meaning that the whole of the former Woolworths unit at 100-108 King Street (store number #104) is now back … Continue Reading

From no sprouts to no claims – an unusual use for an old Safeway

Graham Soult June 08, 2011 Property, Supermarkets 2 Comments

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Former Safeway, Byker (6 Jun 2011). Photograph by Graham Soult

Former Safeway, Byker (6 Jun 2011)

It’s amazing how a throwaway remark can prompt an entire discussion on something unexpected…

In my January post about the divvying up of Netto’s North East store estate following the chain’s acquisition by Asda, I made passing reference to Birtley’s former Safeway – a store … Continue Reading

Redcar’s original ex-Woolies – and a new real shop among the virtual ones

Graham Soult May 05, 2011 Fashion Stores, Property, Retail History, Woolworths 7 Comments

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Original former Woolworths (now Store Twenty One), Redcar (4 May 2011). Photograph by Graham Soult

Original former Woolworths (now Store Twenty One), Redcar (4 May 2011)

One of my main motivations for visiting Redcar yesterday was to get a photo of the town’s original former Woolworths at 19 High Street, above, which – inexplicably – I’d failed to spot when I was there … Continue Reading

Remembering Byker Woolies’ Mr Corson and his Staff

Graham Soult March 25, 2011 Retail History, Woolworths No Comments

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Around the Stores (The New Bond, August 1949)

Around the Stores (The New Bond, August 1949)

I’ve mentioned Woolies’ old ‘house journal’, The New Bond, almost as often as I’ve written about the history of Byker’s Woolworths stores, so I was pleased to find a reference to the latter in a recently … Continue Reading

Mystery of Shields Road ‘Woolies’ building solved

Graham Soult February 28, 2011 Retail History, Woolworths 8 Comments

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The building in question. Photograph by Graham Soult

The building in question

Since I first blogged about it just over a year ago under the heading ‘Is this shop in Shields Road, Byker an old Woolies?’, the history of the building in question at 47-49 Shields Road (pictured above) has prompted … Continue Reading

Piecing together the history of Shields Road’s old Woolies

Graham Soult October 29, 2010 Retail History, Woolworths 6 Comments

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Former Woolworths in Shields Road. Photo from Newcastle City Council, P&T Image Archive

Former Woolworths in Shields Road. Photo from Newcastle City Council, P&T Image Archive

Since I first wrote about back it in January, we’re still yet to establish whether the A&S Discount Store building in Byker’s Shields Road (below) was ever an old Woolies.

It’s not for want of trying, though – with 16 comments and rising, … Continue Reading

The ongoing mystery of Byker’s (possible) former Woolies

Graham Soult March 07, 2010 Property, Retail Parks, Woolworths 5 Comments

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Still not sure if this is an old Woolies or not... (7 Mar 2010). Photograph by Graham Soult

Still not sure if this is an old Woolies or not… (7 Mar 2010)

Back in January I posted a shot of what is now the A&S Discount store in Byker’s Shields Road, questioning whether it had ever been a Woolworths … Continue Reading

Is this shop in Shields Road, Byker an old Woolies?

Graham Soult January 05, 2010 Retail History, Woolworths 27 Comments

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Is this an old Woolies? (27 Sep 2009). Photograph by Graham Soult

Is this an old Woolies? (27 Sep 2009)

Here’s a retail history question for you – was this building (above), in Shields Road in Byker, once a Woolworths? [UPDATE, 28 Feb 2011: It seems that it was, as http://www.soultsretailview.co.uk/2011/02/28/mystery-of-shields-road-woolies-building-solved/ explains.]

I spotted it back in September when I was paying a visit to the … Continue Reading