Preston Road (Wembley) Woolworths – Store 902

209 – 211 Preston Road, Wembley, Middx HA9 8NF

Woolworths opened on Preston Road in Wembley in 1955. It was in the parade of shops just by the Preston Road London Underground Station (Metropolitan Line). There is an interesting history to this area which you can read here: https://wembleymatters.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-preston-story-part-3.html. You can glimpse the Woolworths store on the right side of this photo.

Preston Road (Wembley) Woolworths 1960

Source: Brent Archives

This store traded until the end, closing in January 2009. An extract from the Wembley Matters blog says: “Everybody regretted the loss of the Woolworth store not just as a source of “bits and pieces”, but as a social centre where people bumped into each other. “Woolworths made it a real shopping centre”.

Preston Road (Wembley) Woolworths

Today there is a Tesco Express in the former Woolworths building.

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