Sandbach Woolworths – Store 635

12 High Street, Sandbach, Cheshire CW11 0AY Woolworths opened in Sandbach in 1936. You can just about see it on the far left of this photo. A purpose-built store with a grey concrete block facade – not red brick for some reason. Source: Francis Frith Former Manager has sent in this photo and story from…

Cheadle Woolworths – Store 634

30 High Street, Cheadle, Cheshire SK8 1AS Woolworths opened in Cheadle in 1935. It was a purpose-built store with the classic Woolworths architecture of 5 bays, red brick and a central pediment. They traded here until the 1970s/80s. Source: cheadlephotos.net Since it closed, the building has been an Ethel Austin, a Co-operative and presently it…

Winsford Woolworths – Store 628

High Street, Winsford, Cheshire Woolworths opened in Winsford in 1935. It was on the end of the High Street on the east side, in a purpose-built store. Source: Winsford photographs The building next to it, on the right, was the Post Office. Source: Winsford History Society Source: Facebook In the 1960s, most of the shops…

Ellesmere Port Woolworths – Store 619

53 Whitby Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, CH65 8AB Woolworths opened in Ellesmere Port in 1935 in a small purpose-built store on Whitby Road. It has the usual Woolworths architecture. They traded here until 1968. The building still exists today, currently vacant. 7 Rivington Road, Ellesmere Port, South Wirral CH65 0EJ In the 1960s there was…

Stalybridge Woolworths – Store 578

55 Grosvenor Square, Stalybridge, Cheshire SK15 2JN Woolworths opened in Stalybridge in 1934, in the premises of the former Stalybridge Industrial Co-operative Society Tailoring shop. Source: Facebook Here you can see the Woolworths store in the middle of this parade of shops. Source: Tameside Council Former employee Andrew East says, “I know that Joe O’Leary…

Hyde Woolworths – Store 528

13 – 15 Market Place, Hyde, Cheshire SK14 2LZ Woolworths opened in Hyde in 1933. It was on the High Street in a corner site on the junction with Hammet Street. It’s an interesting looking building with a dome, formerly a store called Brownson’s Clothiers. Source: Hydonian Blog Source: Photo © michael ely (cc-by-sa/2.0) The traded…

Wilmslow Woolworths – Store 496

23 Grove Street, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 1EN Woolworths opened in Wilmslow in 1933. It was on Grove Street. There aren’t any photos of the store from the early days but we can work out that it is where Monsoon is today. The store closed in the 1980s. Source: Ballysundriven

Altrincham Woolworths – Store 462

88 – 98 George Street, Altrincham, Cheshire WA14 1RG Woolworths opened in Altrincham in 1932 in a purpose-built store with the classic 5 bay and central pediment style (see below on the left of this postcard). Source: eBay The store was extended to the left and to the right to create a very large store….

Sale Woolworths – Store 443

102 – 102a School Road, Sale, Cheshire M33 1XD Woolworths opened in Sale, Cheshire, in 1931. I’ve working out it is the store with the canopy open in the below postcard. Source: eBay It closed down after 1972 but before 1995. It became a bar/nightclub but today it has been split into three units. You…

Runcorn Woolworths – Store 395

29 High Street, Runcorn, Cheshire WA7 1AP Woolworths opened in Runcorn in 1930, originally on the High Street. They traded from this building for 40 years before big changes came to Runcorn. This present day photo shows the Woolworths store replaced by a road called Leiria Way – the building that was next to Woolworths…

Nantwich Woolworths – Store 383

10 Swine Market, Nantwich, Cheshire CW5 5LW Woolworths opened in Nantwich in 1930 – you can see it in the below photo on the right side. In the 1960s the area was redeveloped and a larger Woolworths opened. Note the oversized letters. The store lasted until the end, closing in December 2008. It soon became…

Wallasey Woolworths – Store 381

286 – 288 Liscard Road, Wallasey, Cheshire L44 5TU Woolworths opened in Wallasey in 1930 on the site of Harrop’s Coal Yard. Originally at number 288, it was a small store, purpose-built with the recognisable Woolworths architecture, central pediment at the top. It was later extended into number 286 (if you look at the photo…

Congleton Woolworths – Store 290

35 – 37 High Street, Congleton, Cheshire CW12 1AX Woolworths opened in Congleton in 1927. It was a small store with a typical Woolworths look to the first floor – see below. Source: Congleton Through Time, Alcock J. In 1968 Woolworths bought The Bears Head Hotel and Farrell’s Sweet Shop next door. They were demolished…

Macclesfield Woolworths – Store 265

27 – 29 Mill Street, Macclesfield, Cheshire SK11 6NF Woolworths opened their 265th store in Macclesfield in 1927. It was on Mill Street, a couple of doors down from Marks & Spencer. From the photo below, you will recognise the Woolworths style of building. You’ll also see a window poster showing The Simpsons Movie being…

Northwich Woolworths – Store 219

26 – 28 Witton Street, Northwich, Cheshire CW9 5AL Wooworths opened in the historic town on Northwich in 1926. Below you can see how the store looked, on the left of this photo. I am not sure if this was purpose-built or an existing building. Most of Witton Street is timber-framed, which today gives it…

Widnes Woolworths – Store 208

2 – 4 Albert Road, Widnes, Cheshire WA8 6JF Widnes was the first Woolworths store to open in the year of 1926. The store was on the corner of Albert Road and Winfield Way. It was not a purpose-built store as the building was part of a parade of shops. But the actual shopfront was…

Crewe Woolworths – Store 199

59 – 67 High Street, Crewe, Cheshire CW1 2HA Woolworths opened their 199th store in October 1925 in the town of Crewe. The store they built had a grand Art Deco style, as you can see in the photo below. It spanned from numbers 59 to 67 of the High Street. Source: Francis Frith The…

Chester Woolworths – Store 163

37 – 43 Eastgate, Chester, CH1 1LL Woolworths opened in the historic city of Chester, near Liverpool, in 1924. They took over a genuine timber-framed building. In 1961 an extension was made to the right in half-timbered English oak. The sales floor was linked at the back of House of Bewley and Kardomah. The store…

Birkenhead Woolworths – Store 152

220a Grange Road, Birkenhead, Cheshire L41 6EQ Woolworths opened in Birkenhead in 1923. Although there are no early photos online, you can tell from this photo that this facade probably dates from the 1930s with it’s Art Deco design. Source: Tiger It was a store where there were reportings of ghosts being seen in the…

Stockport Woolworths – Store 48

35-39 Princes Street, Stockport, Cheshire SK1 1SY Store 48 was Stockport which opened in 1915. The store had a temporary shopfront for several years after World War One. Then a new purpose-built store was built in the 1930s. In the 1930s a road was built above and along the River Mersey – before that the…