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...
Read more....Tagged: Alnwick
Getting content with your web content: practical tips for a great retail website (Part 1)
Through both my work at CannySites.com and my blogging, I get to see an awful lot of independent retailers’ websites, including the good, the bad...
Read more....
Newcastle’s revamped Wilkinson is better and brighter
Since Wilkinson, the family-owned hardware and variety chain, quietly launched its new logo and store format over three years ago, the refreshed look seems to have...
Read more....
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...
Read more....
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...
Read more....
5-7 Southgate Street, Launceston – historic birthplace and former Woolworths [updated]
The hazard of doing so much travelling around interesting towns is that I end up with more retail-related photographs – and topics to blog about...
Read more....
Taking a look around Alnwick
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...
Read more....
Former Woolworths stores – status update
There have been a few more announcements of new occupants for old Woolworths stores over the last couple of weeks: Alnwick: M&Co – full story...
Read more....
