Exclusive: Hartlepool’s Middleton Grange secures B&M to fill empty BHS spot
Value retailer B&M is taking over the prominent 24,000 sq ft ex-BHS in Hartlepool’s Middleton Grange shopping centre, with jobs being advertised from today.
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As Shop Direct closes Woolworths online, is a high-street return now more likely than ever?
The news that Shop Direct is to shut its Woolworths online store, following its acquisition of the brand back in 2009, is not especially a surprise.
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Woolworths: How speculation about its “return to the high street” all began with a dodgy April Fool
If you’ve read the news headlines over the last couple of days, you could be forgiven for thinking that Woolworths is about to come back...
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A brief history of Morpeth Woolworths
As you’d probably expect, I get my fair share of Woolworths-related enquiries, given that I’ve written (and talked) so much about the retailer’s long and...
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New Gateshead Poundland to open on 29 March – with existing store retained for now
One of the eight new Poundland stores scheduled to open by the end of March is the long-awaited branch at Gateshead’s Trinity Square development, which Poundland’s...
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As Poundland prepares to float, what are the secrets of “the new Woolies'” success?
As Poundland gets ready to float on the London Stock Exchange this week, in a move expected to value the business at £750m – similar in...
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Five years after closure, Newton Aycliffe Woolworths may soon be occupied
If you’ve managed to miss me hogging the airwaves this morning – on BBC Radio 5 Live (which you can listen to here), Wales, Scotland,...
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Five years on from Woolies’ collapse, Boyes signs for the Coalville store
It’s hard to believe that it’s five years ago today – on 26 November 2008 – that Woolworths collapsed into administration after trading in the...
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Old Woolies fascia exposed as Byker Wetherspoon’s readies for October opening
The Newcastle suburb of Byker will gain a welcome addition when its new Wetherspoon pub – The High Main – opens at 63 Shields Road on 22...
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Tracking down Darlington’s original Woolworths – 73 years after it relocated
Never one to let a good Woolworths anniversary pass me by, today – 20 September 2013 – represents 73 years since Darlington’s Woolworths store relocated...
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Opened on 8 July 1933, what’s become of the ex-Woolworths in Morden?
Regular readers will know that I always enjoy an obscure Woolworths anniversary, and today represents the 80th anniversary of the now-defunct chain opening its 498th store,...
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Eighty-five years on: tracking down the ex-Woolworths in Stafford and Stoke
An anniversary is always as good an excuse as any to write a Woolworths-related blog post, and if you were around 85 years ago today...
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Ex-Woolies spotting in Inverness, Dingwall and Blairgowrie
If you like looking at shops and high streets, going on holiday to north west Sutherland, in Scotland – as I did earlier this month – isn’t...
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Pick ‘n’ mixed grill: the ex-Woolworths that are now Wetherspoons
There are 870 Wetherspoon pubs, including a few in former Woolworths premises. Here are the ex-Woolies Wetherspoons I’ve come across on my travels to date.
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Hunting for long-gone Woolies stores in Harrow and Sudbury Hill
It’s been great to see a new Woolworths-related history blog appear this week, courtesy of longstanding former Woolies staff member Stuart Kew. His blog, Forgotten...
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I’ve now visited and tracked a quarter of the ex-Woolies estate – but what have they all become?
Headlines: 214 ex-Woolworths stores visited, out of the 807 that closed following its collapse Of those, only 12 currently empty (6%) 7 continually empty (3%)...
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Nipper on the brink: is there a future for HMV, and do we care?
If reports tonight are to be believed, it looks like the 92-year-old entertainment retailer HMV could collapse into administration tomorrow (Tuesday 15 January), putting around 235 stores and...
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Celtic Tiger: the Danish variety retailer prepares for Glasgow store opening
If you follow my tweets you’ll know that I’ve spent the middle part of this week in Glasgow, taking time to explore the Ayrshire coast...
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Fifties postcard confirms location of original Alnwick Woolworths
Back in April I blogged about the apparent location of Alnwick’s original Woolworths, where the chain traded for the first fifteen years of its 55-year...
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Farnham, home to Britain’s poshest ex-Woolies (just don’t try to photograph it)
While former Woolworths up and down the country now play host to Poundland and B&M Bargains – with just the occasional Waitrose – the Surrey town...
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