750 Bristol Road South, Northfield, Birmingham B31 2NT Woolworths opened in Northfield in 1939. It was originally part of a parade of shops on Bristol Road, where Boots is today. After nearly 30 years, Woolworths moved to a new bigger premises in June 1968. 804 – 814 Bristol Road South, Northfield, Birmingham B31 2NT Source:…
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Birmingham (Gooch St) Woolworths – Store 743
280 – 282 Gooch Street, Birmingham B5 7JB Woolworths opened in Gooch Street, Birmingham in 1939. It was next to The Triangle Cinema. Source: Birmingham Images This Woolworths closed in the 1970s or 80s – I can’t find an exact date. This whole row of buildings has been demolished.
Hockley Woolworths – Store 660
405- 407 Lodge Road, Hockley, Birmingham B18 5BY Woolworths opened in Hockley in 1936. Hockley is an inner-city area of Birmingham and is part of the Jewellery Quarter. So presumably, in those days, this area would have attracted more well-off customers. It wasn’t a purpose- built store, opening in an existing building next to a…
Selly Oak Woolworths – Store 655
580 – 582 Bristol Road, Selly Oak, Birmingham B29 6BE In 1936 Woolworths opened in Selly Oak, an industrial and residential area in south-west Birmingham. It wasn’t a purpose-built store, opening in an existing building on Bristol Road, very close to the University of Birmingham and a 5-minute walk from Selly Oak train station. I…
Acocks Green Woolworths – Store 593
1-7 Shirley Road, Acocks Green, Birmingham, West Midlands B27 7XX Woolworths opened in Acocks Green, Birmngham, in 1934. It was a small purpose-built store with the classic 5-bay, red brick architecture and a central pediment. Unfortunately I can’t find any photos of it open! It did trade from here for 74 years, closing in December…
Harborne Woolworths – Store 575
202 High Street, Harborne, Birmingham B17 9PP Woolworths opened in Harborne in 1934. It was a small purpose-built store at the end of the high street where it widened into a junction. You can see the store on the right side of this photo with the recognisable architecture. Source: Francis Frith Source: Francis Frith This…
Kings Heath Woolworths – Store 554
151 High Street, Kings Heath, Birmingham, West Midlands B14 7DL Woolworths opened in Kings Heath in 1934 in the former Kings Heath Institute. Source: Historic England In the late 1960s Woolworths purchased the premises next door and started building a new superstore – you can see it being built on the right of the existing…
Solihull Woolworths – Store 525
57 High Street, Solihull, West Midlands B91 3SW Woolworths opened in Solihull originally on the High Street in 1933. It was a small purpose-built store with the classic Woolworths architecture of five bays and a single pediment, redbrick on the upper floor. They traded here for about 30 years, before closing to move to a…
Sparkhill (Birmingham) Woolworths – Store 499
479 – 481 Stratford Road, Sparkhill, Birmingham B11 4LE Woolworths opened in Sparkhill, Birmingham in 1933. It was next to a school on the junction of Stratford Road and Newton Road. I can’t find any pictures of it though! It closed in the 1970s or 80s, and today it is Azad Supermarket.
Saltley Woolworths – Store 447
189 – 193 Alum Rock Road, Saltley, Birmingham B8 1NJ Woolworths opened its 11th Birmingham store in 1931 in Saltley. It was on the Alum Rock Road in a purpose-built store which you can see in the below photo. Saltley Woolworths Source: Pinterest This Woolworths traded here for 58 years, closing in September 1989. It…
Birmingham (Lozells Road) Woolworths -Store 437
89 – 91 Lozells Road, Birmingham B19 2TR Woolworths opened in Lozells Road in Birmingham in 1931. It closed in the 1970s/80s. It wasn’t a purpose-build Woolworths store. From the address we can work out the it was where Bismillah Bakery and Dixy Chicken are today.
Erdington Woolworths – Store 389
153-157 High Street, Erdington, Birmingham, West Midlands B23 6TP Woolworths opened in the Birmingham suburb of Erdington on the 8th November 1930. The store was on a corner plot on the High Street and on Barnabas Road. It was extended 5 years later in 1935. Below is a photo from 1950. The ground level was…
Small Heath (Birmingham) Woolworths – Store 338
350 – 354 Coventry Road, Small Heath, Birmingham B10 0XF Woolworths opened in Small Heath, Birmingham, in 1928. I’m sorry, this is going to be a short but sweet post as I can find nothing about the store, apart from it closing in December 1983. So it traded for 55 years. Today that address is…
Handsworth Woolworths – Store 299
210 – 214 Soho Road, Handsworth, Birmingham B21 9LU The first Woolworths store to open in the year of 1928 was in Handsworth, Birmingham. It opened on Soho Road (It’s the middle terraced building in this photo. Burton is on the far right in an Art Deco style building.) Source: Photographs of Birmingham The store…
Birmingham Aston Woolworths – Store 137
95 Aston Road North, Birmingham B6 4DA Woolworths opened a third Birmingham store on Aston Road North, on the corner of Burlington Street, in 1923. It was near the Aston Hippodrome. The other stores were Store 103 and Store 266. There are not many photos of the store. The Aston Hippodrome closed in the 1980s…
Birmingham Bull Ring Woolworths – Store 103
105/107 The Bull Ring Centre, Birmingham B5 4QN Originally, Woolworths opened in Birmingham City Centre on Spiceal Street in 1921, 6 years before the nearby New Street branch opened. THEN: Source: Woolworths Museum It was hugely successful in this location – sales were amongst the highest in the country in the 1930s – so they…
Birmingham Pallasades – Store 1172
1- 2 East Mews, The Pallasades, Birmingham B2 4XA This store opened in the Pallasades Shopping Centre on 31st October 1991. It was the first time Woolworths had returned to Birmingham City Centre after the closure of the Bull Ring and New Street branches back in the 1980s. This photo is from my Facebook group,…
Woolies Buildings - Then and Now 