West Ealing’s surprising former Woolies building
While visiting London last month, I also found time to pay a visit to the interesting shopping area of West Ealing – home, as you...
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Crook’s long-lost Woolies
Imagine a small town whose Woolworths opened in the 1930s, closed in the 1970s, and is now occupied by Boots. A town where, even all those...
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Why does Stockton have so many empty shops? BBC1 tonight at 7.30 might have some answers…
Those of you in the North East and Cumbria (or anywhere else with access to Freesat), may be interested in watching BBC1 at 7.30 pm tonight (Monday...
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From High Street Ken to High Holborn – more of London’s long-lost Woolies
Visiting London again this week, I was able to capture another clutch of locations that used to house Woolies stores more than a quarter of...
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What’s become of North Yorkshire’s former Woolies?
As well as comprehensively exploring the North East, and making the occasional excursion into Cumbria or Scotland, I’ve also clocked a few of North Yorkshire’s former...
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Hartlepool and Middlesbrough’s still-vacant Woolies sites
While visiting Billingham yesterday, I also managed to fit in stops in Hartlepool and Middlesbrough. In Hartlepool, there is no sign of the large empty...
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Woolies photo updates from South Shields, Wallsend, Jarrow and North Shields
While out and about on my recent travels, I’ve revisited – often just in passing – some of the former Tyneside Woolies sites that I’ve...
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Back to Billingham
Regular readers of this blog will be pleased to hear that I went back to Billingham yesterday, following my earlier underwhelming visit, back in June. The homogeneity...
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Bishop Auckland Boyes to open doors on 19 November
Boyes, the Scarborough-based variety retailer, has revealed that its latest store – in Bishop Auckland’s old Woolies premises – will open for business on Friday 19...
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“Major value fashion anchor” for MetroCentre Woolies site
MetroCentre’s empty Woolworths site is poised to get a new occupant, according to the mall’s majority owners, and is set to be trading by the middle...
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Cumbria’s 100% hit rate of new Woolies tenants
In between touring the East Midlands, travelling up to Berwick, and stopping off in Horley on my way out the country, I also found time this...
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Eth-alworth Austin
As variety chain Alworths celebrates its first birthday today, the opening of stores in Newark and Maidenhead has now been confirmed for later this month –...
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And Berwick-upon-Tweed makes 33…
Ever since I paid a visit to the old out-of-town Woolies in Stockton back in July, Berwick-upon-Tweed (store #232) has been the only one of the 33 North East...
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Shop Direct’s move to protect the Woolies brand – Wellworth the bad press?
Last week’s news that the celebrated Wellworths store, in Dorchester, is being forced to change its name by Shop Direct reignites one of the most interesting threads...
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Hotel Chocolat comes to Newcastle
Upmarket chocolate specialist Hotel Chocolat is to open a store in Newcastle city centre, it has been revealed – its most northerly standalone shop to...
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One bus ticket – 11 former Midlands Woolies
Regular readers of Soult’s Retail View will know that I have something of a penchant for visiting lots of old Woolworths stores in a short...
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Horley’s old Woolies – long closed, but hard to miss
During the summer, I’ve built up a veritable stack of photos of old Woolworths stores, from all kinds of places across the UK – not...
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New Alworths stores for Newark and Maidenhead
‘Son of Woolies’ chain Alworths has had a quiet spell since opening a flurry of stores (in Llandudno, Newhaven and Hertford) at the end of...
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Piecing together the history of Shields Road’s old Woolies
(UPDATE: Since I wrote this post, it’s been confirmed that the A&S Discount building was indeed Byker’s original Woolworths location, from 1927 until 1954) Since I...
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London’s lost Woolies flagships
Visiting London last week, I took the opportunity to grab photos, in the rain, of a couple more long-closed Woolworths stores, adding to the six old...
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