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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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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One town, five stores: tracking down Middlesbrough’s ex-Woolworths (part 2)
Last month I wrote about the former Woolworths store at 91-93 Linthorpe Road in Middlesbrough (store #8, below), which opened there in 1911. As I...
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One town, five stores: tracking down Middlesbrough’s ex-Woolworths (part 1)
After making my first visit to Middlesbrough’s most recent former Woolworths – the site of today’s Discount UK – back in September 2009, Soult’s Retail View...
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Felling and North Kenton – two more long-closed Tyneside Woolies
This is my 200th blog post since starting Soult’s Retail View back in July 2009, so it seems only appropriate for it to bring together two of my...
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Long-lost London Woolies in High Holborn and Tottenham Court Road
As you would expect, I used my spare time while in London recently to track down some more of those long-gone Central London Woolworths sites.
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Remembering Byker Woolies’ Mr Corson and his Staff
I’ve mentioned Woolies’ old ‘house journal’, The New Bond, almost as often as I’ve written about the history of Byker’s Woolworths stores, so I was...
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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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The ghosts of Washington’s former Woolworths
Back in February, I blogged about the former Woolworths store in Sunderland’s Fawcett Street, which closed in 2004 following its acquisition by Primark. At 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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