Clay Cross Woolworths – Store 870

79-83 High Street, Clay Cross, Derbyshire Woolworths opened in Clay Cross in 1955. It closed before 1995 as it’s not on that store list. Today it’s an interiors shop that actually kept the Woolworths mosaic floor tiles, after all these years. Source: ballysundriven Source: Graham Soult Source: Graham Soult

Belper Woolworths – Store 725

2 King Street, Belper, Derbyshire DE56 1PS Woolworths opened in the Derbyshire town of Belper in 1938. It was a purpose-built store with the classic recognisable Woolworths architecture. Source: Historic Belper FB page The store was next to the Palace theatre. The theatre was demolished in 1963 and replaced with this building. Woolworths remained but…

Alfreton Woolworths – Store 684

51 High Street, Alfreton, Derbyshire DE55 7DR Woolworths opened in the Derbyshire town of Alfreton in 1937. It was a small purpose-built store on the high street. You can see it on the right side of this photo. Source: Francis Frith The store was extended into the unit on the left to make a larger…

Ashbourne Woolworths – Store 679

44 St. John’s Street, Ashbourne, Derbyshire DE6 1GJ Woolworths opened in the picturesque Peak District town of Ashbourne in 1936. The store opened in an 18th century house. They traded from here for 40 – 50 years, closing in the 1970s/80s. Unfortunately I can’t find a photo of it as a Woolworths, but it is…

Swadlincote Woolworths – Store 567

46 – 48 High Street, Swadlincote, Derbyshire DE11 8HR Woolworths opened in Swadlincote in 1934. It didn’t have an upper floor which looks rather odd in this photo. The upper floor was built in a Georgian style at some point afterwards. Source: Siddalls, I. The store was extended into the little shop on the left…

Heanor Woolworths – Store 549

28 Market Street, Heanor, Derbyshire DE7 7NW Woolworths opened in Heanor in 1934. It opened in the former Liberal Club that was built in 1890. Tracy Clifford was Assistant Manager at Heanor she says, “for a wee while – lived in Derby with two other girls who were on the Management Trainee scheme with me…

Ripley Woolworths – Store 514

23 – 25 Church Street, Ripley, Derby DE5 3BZ Woolworths opened in Ripley in 1933. They took over part of the premises of former drapery business Redferns. Source: Facebook In the late 1970s/early 1980s the store was updated with a new fascia and logo on the outside, and presumably changes inside too. Source: Facebook The…

Glossop Woolworths – Store 485

9 – 11 High Street West, Glossop, Derbyshire SK13 8AN Woolworths opened in Glossop in October 1932, originally at number 9 High Street, by the Town Hall. The store was so successful that it was extended to number 11. You can read about the history of the building here. Source: Glossop VAH Source: Glossop Heritage…

Chesterfield Woolworths – Store 358

21 Burlington Street, Chesterfield, Derbyshire Woolworths opened in Chesterfield on 28th September 1929. It was in a purpose-built store, built on the site of the Picture Palace Cinema. There was a wide staircase to a lower floor with a brass handrail, and in the far corner of the lower floor was a cafe. In the…

Buxton Woolworths – Store 210

44 – 46 Spring Gardens, Buxton, Derbyshire SK17 6DB Woolworths opened in Buxton on 1926, on part of the site of the former Shakespeare Hotel that was built in 1711. Similar to Store 208 Widnes, this store had the vintage F.W. Woolworth fascia on as late as the 1990s. It is rare you get to…

Ilkeston Woolworths – Store 141

102 Bath Street, Ilkeston, Derbyshire DE7 8HA Woolworths opened in Ilkeston in 1923. In the 1930s the store had an update with an Art Deco facade added. Source: Francis Frith This Woolworths store was one of the few that kept it’s original 1930s features – the bronze window and door surrounds, the curved glass, the…

Derby Woolworths – Store 29

27-32 Victoria Street, Derby, Derbyshire DE1 1EU The twenty-ninth Woolworths store opened in Derby on Victoria Street. You can see it to the right of this postcard – it was quite a large store. The store got into trouble in the early years, when ‘Woolworths girls’ went on strike for habitually being made to work overtime,…