Cardiff city centre’s lost Woolworths
Paying my first visit to Cardiff in twenty years last week, I couldn’t resist tracking down the city centre’s former Woolworths locations – despite the...
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New-concept Wilko opens in Crawley’s ex-TJ Hughes store
Wilkinson’s “newest and most exciting concept store” has opened at 14-26 The Broadway in Crawley this morning (15 August). Designed to “offer the community a...
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The discount retailers dominating Suffolk’s ex-Woolworths sites
Alongside its new-look Clintons, the Suffolk town of Stowmarket seems to have come off fairly well from recent retail administrations. Earlier this year, its ex-Woolworths managed...
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Reflections on Spennymoor High Street, 85 years to the day from Woolworths’ arrival
I suspect it will have passed the townsfolk by, but today – 13 August – is the 85th anniversary of Woolworths opening in the County Durham...
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Heron Foods launches new website and plots further expansion
Heron Foods, the Hull-based discount supermarket chain, has launched a new website as it takes its first steps into cyberspace. Described by Retail Week in...
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Fleetwood’s former and phantom Woolworths
As I mentioned earlier, I paid a long-overdue visit to the North West last week, visiting smaller towns such as Prescot and St Helens as...
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Cirencester’s ex-Woolworths: a window on the rise of discounters
I often talk about how the fate of ex-Woolworths stores provides a fascinating ‘window’ on the changing high street, and the ex-Woolies in Cirencester (store #394) –...
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A Woolworths staff photo from 1938 – but can you identify the location?
The last time I shared an old photograph of an unidentified Woolworths store, Soult’s Retail View readers were quick to identify it as the original Woolies...
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Woolies spotting in Somerset: a cinema, a bank, a hardware store and a fashion discounter
With a visit to Taunton on the schedule for later this month, it seems an appropriate time to write about the Somerset ex-Woolworths stores that I’ve already...
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From textured berber to veggie burgers: new uses for Devon’s old Woolworths
With another shop-spotting visit to Devon scheduled for later this month, now seems like an opportune time to share the ex-Woolies photos that I took...
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Monmouth’s ex-Woolies and its place in our retail heritage
On 9 April 1932, Woolworths opened its doors in Monmouth, in Wales. Today – the 80th anniversary – therefore seems like a good time to...
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Wallsend’s Woolies history – from High Street West to High Street East
Over the last few weeks I’ve highlighted some of the North East towns – including Houghton-le-Spring and Alnwick – where Woolworths originally opened in one location...
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Historic Alnwick’s original Woolworths – and a modern-day successor in Wilkinson
In the same way as Houghton-le-Spring’s Woolworths was originally in a different location to where it ended up, I recently discovered that Alnwick, too, has...
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On the hunt for Houghton-le-Spring’s original Woolworths
If you’ve followed this blog for a while, you’ll know by now that Woolworths in its prime had a long record of modernising its estate: both in...
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M&Co and the ex-Woolies in Sidmouth and Sherborne
In previous posts, I’ve noted the difficulty I have in finding time to blog about all the former Woolworths sites that I’ve visited – not a...
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Fascia treatment of Poundworld’s 2-in-1 Swindon store revealed
Many thanks to Soult’s Retail View reader Lee Sartin, who has sent in a picture of the dual-fascia Poundworld and Discount UK store that opened...
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The fragment of Uniqlo that lives on in Coventry
Having opened its Coventry store on 20 September 2002, Uniqlo announced just six months later that it would be closing – but a trace of the shop remains.
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The South Shields shop that’s been a Woolworths… and nearly every supermarket name too
When I recently got hold of a copy of the 1972 Woolworths store list, I was surprised to see a reference to a North East...
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Edinburgh Woollen Mill saves Peacocks, but ten North East stores close
Today’s announcement that Edinburgh Woollen Mill has bought fashion retailer Peacocks out of administration is very good news as far as the 6,000 saved jobs and 395 retained...
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Poundworld and Discount UK to open dual-fascia store in Swindon
Multi-price value retailer Discount UK is to open its 30th store, in Swindon, this week – under a dual fascia with its Yorkshire-based parent brand, Poundworld....
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