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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Work starts on converting Tyneside Netto stores to Asda Supermarkets
Less than six months after the carve-up of the Netto estate was confirmed, the Danish supermarket fascia is well on its way to disappearing from the...
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Logging the North East’s long-closed former Woolies
Last week’s blog post about the long-closed former Woolworths in Benwell seems to have opened the floodgates to lots of comments and insights about other nearly-forgotten...
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Finding old Woolworths stores in unlikely places, courtesy of The New Bond
One of the things I most love about researching retail history is the way that interesting stories can emerge from the tiniest leads. As a...
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