St Neots Woolworths – Store 645

Merry Christmas everyone! As a Christmas treat, I have one last Woolworths post of the year, and then I will return with more Woolworths posts in the new year. Today I bring you St. Neots. 29-31 Market Square, St Neots,Cambridgeshire PE19 2AX Woolworths opened in St Neots in 1936, originally a small store on Market…

Ely Woolworths – Store 622

10 Fore Street, Ely, Cambs CB7 4AG Woolworths opened in Ely in 1935. It was a purpose-built store as you can see from this photo. Source: Ely Standard They traded here until the early 2000s, when they relocated to premises at 11 Market Place (with a new store number of 1260). The original store was…

Huntingdon Woolworths – Store 608

51 High Street, Huntingdon PE29 3AQ Woolworths opened in Huntingdon in 1935 in a small purpose-built store. It had the classic architecture of 5 bays, red brick and a central pediment. Source: huntingdon.ccan.co.uk Look at the rare image of an old receipt. Source: huntingdon.ccan.co.uk Woolworths moved to larger premises in 1970. The original building is…

March Woolworths – Store 467

21 Broad Street, March, Cambridgeshire PE15 8TS Woolworths opened in the market town of March in 1932. It was a small-purpose built store which you can see in these photos. The classic Woolworths architecture with a central pediment at the top. Source: Francis Frith Source: Francis Frith The store was rebranded to ‘Woolworths Local’ and…

Wisbech Woolworths – Store 327

19 – 20 Market Street, Wisbech, Cambs PE13 1DZ Woolworths opened in Wisbech in 1928. It was a purpose-built store, and similar to Bury St Edmunds they leased a small part of the building to a shoe shop – in this case it was Easiephit. Source: wisbech.ccan.co.uk In the 1960s there was a makeover, and what is…

Cambridge Woolworths – Store 194

13/15 Sidney Street, Cambridge CB2 3HJ Woolworths opened in Cambridge in 1925. The building resembled nearby Sidney Sussex College. It featured a gable, a first-floor oriel, leaded casements, a tiled roof and an armorial cartouche incorporating a bend taken from the arms of the college*. Sainsbury’s next door, built in the same year, had similar…

Peterborough Woolworths – Store 62

62-64 Bridge Street, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire PE1 1DX Woolworths opened on Bridge Street in Peterborough in December 1915, and amazingly there are two photos of the store from this time, the first being this one: Source: 100thbirthday.co.uk And this one, although this photo shows the ‘3d and 6d’ placed before the F.W.Woolworth on the fascia: Source: Peterboroughimages.co.uk They extended…