Wokingham Woolworths – Store 670

25-27 Peach Street, Wokingham, Berkshire RG40 1XL Woolworths opened their 670th store in the Berkshire market town of Wokingham in 1936. It was a large store that you can see on the left on this photo, towards the middle. Source: Francis Frith Woolworths traded from this location through the decades. Thanks Lisa Kalisz for this…

Newbury Woolworths – Store 307

13-15 Northbrook Street, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 1DJ Woolworths opened in the market town of Newbury on 3rd March 1928, next to the prestigious department store Camp Hopson. It started off in small premises – here is a photo from the 1930s: Source: Newbury Community Forum In the early 1960s, the store was extended to nearly double…

Windsor Woolworths – Store 295

17/18 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire SL4 1DX Woolworths opened in Windsor quite soon after Slough, in 1927 – the difference being that this was the Queen’s local Woolies: “Her Majesty once told The Daily Mail that she had done her Christmas shopping at Woolworths. She was spotted occasionally in the large store in Peascod Street,…

Slough Woolworths – Store 263 / 1173 / 1243

190 High Street, Slough, Berkshire SL1 1JS Woolworths opened in Slough, Berkshire in 1927, on the busy and bustling High Street. You can see the store in this 1930s photo, with its 3d and 6d fascia and Art Deco facade. Woolworths is on the far left, a few doors down from the Eagle pub, which…

Maidenhead Woolworths – Store 202

90/90a High Street, Maidenhead, Berkshire SL6 1PU Woolworths opened in the Berkshire town of Maidenhead in 1925, on the High Street. It was next to Barclays Bank (who are still there today, albeit in a more modern building). Source: Postcards of Maidenhead Maidenhead was one of the first stores called ‘Woolworths’ with a ‘s’, having been…

Reading Woolworths – Store 111/1180

61/64 Broad Street, Reading RG1 2AJ Woolworths originally opened at 51 Broad Street, Reading in the Spring of 1922, which is where H&M is today. Some pretty fantastic vintage photos of the Reading store have been put up on www.reading-forum.co.uk by markjuk. (http://www.reading-forum.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5709&p=51409) THEN: Source: http://readingimages.epixtech.co.uk/loc/1261402.PDF NOW: Source: http://uk-retail.pldbgw-dtz.maximalls.net/dynamic/image/2374271?x=340 The store was expanded to have entrances in Broad…