Royston Woolworths – Store 897

40-42 High Street, Royston, Hertfordshire SG8 9AN Woolworths opened in Royston in 1955. Source: pinterest Source: Royston Museum Source: Herts Memories The store traded until January 2009. It became a Store Twenty One. Today though, it has been split into smaller shop units. Source: Google Maps

Potters Bar Woolworths – Store 859

77-79 Darkes Lane, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire EN6 1BW Woolworths opened in the Hertfordshire town of Potters Bar in 1954. Pictured below, you can see it was part of a shopping parade. Source: Potters Bar – A Trip Down Memory Lane The store traded for 54 years, closing in January 2009. Source: Katy/BlueyBirdy Today the former…

South Oxhey Woolworths – Store 828

12 St Andrews Road, South Oxhey, Watford, Herts WD19 7AA Woolworths opened in South Oxhey in 1954. Source: Our Oxhey Source: Flickr – Terry Trainor Source: Flickr Source: Ballysundriven South Oxhey Woolworths closed in December 2008 and if you’re looking for the old building today, you won’t find it. The whole of St Andrews Road…

Welwyn Garden City Woolworths – Store 824

61 Howardsgate, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire AL8 6BB Woolworths opened in Welwyn Garden City in 1953 Source: Woolworths History and Photos They traded here for 36 years, closing on 3rd June 1989. Today you will find Vision Express and McDonalds here. You can see to the right of the building is the shopping centre. It…

Stevenage Woolworths – Store 747

50 High Street, Stevenage, Herts SG1 3EB Woolworths opened in Stevenage in 1939 on the High Street (what is now known as the Old Town). It was built as part of a small parade of shops. Source: Facebook Woolworths traded here for 20 years, before moving to a new location in Queensway – when a…

North Watford Woolworths – Store 740

259-265 St Albans Road, Watford, Hertfordshire WD24 5BN Woolworths opened their second Watford store in 1938. The first one was on the High Street – Store 68. The North Watford store was on St Albans road in a really lovely looking building. Over time the store was extended to the left. They traded here for…

Harpenden Woolworths – Store 718

27 High Street, Harpenden, Herts AL5 2RU Woolworths opened in the Hertfordshire town of Harpenden in 1938. It was a purpose-built store with a Georgian style facade. I have some memories shared from Richard Northover, whose father was store manager of Harpenden from 1958. He has kindly supplied these photos also. “A very youthful earnest…

Waltham Cross Woolworths – Store 643

118 High Street, Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire EN8 7BX Woolworths opened in Waltham Cross in 1936, in a unit that was part of a parade of shops. Source: Historic England Source: Facebook Former employee Margaret Gosling shares her memories, ” I spent over 5 years at 643 Waltham Cross. Great team to work with & special…

Hemel Hempstead Woolworths – Store 639

Lower High Street, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire Woolworths opened in Hemel Hempstead in 1935. Here you can see it on the right of this photo, originally on Lower High Street. Source: Herts Memories After the Second World War it was decided that Hemel Hempstead would be built to be a New Town. A new shopping area…

Hertford Woolworths – Store 590

16-18 Maidenhead Street, Hertford, Hertfordshire SG14 1DR Woolworths opened in Hertford in 1934, on the site of former pub The Maidenhead Inn, which had been there since the 1600s. Woolworths built their store here in neo-georgian in style but with casement windows rather than sash. You can see the upper floor looks different from the…

Hoddesdon Woolworths – Store 565

 25A High St, Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire EN11 8SX Woolworths opened in Hoddesdon in 1934. It was a small store next to William Brothers Stores, by the Golden Lion pub at the southern end of the High Street. Source: Alamy They traded here until the 1960s, when a new bigger store was built. Today Bed-e-buys is in…

Rickmansworth Woolworths – Store 537

94 – 102 High Street, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire WD3 1AQ Woolworths opened in Rickmansworth in 1934. They took over the site of the Fotherley Almshouses. You can see the Woolworths store on the left side centre of this photo. Source: Francis Frith This is a photo of the Fotherly Almhouses, which were built in 1682 for…

Barnet Woolworths – Store 501

136 – 138 High Street, Barnet, Herts EN5 5XR Woolworths opened in Barnet in 1933. It was on the High Street next to a bank, Midland Bank in this 1965 photo. The store was in an existing building. Source: Francis Frith The store closed down between the 1970s-80s. Today it is Santander Bank.

Hitchin Woolworths – Store 452

7 High Street, Hitchin, Hertfordshire SG5 1BN Woolworths opened in Hitchin in 1931 at number 7 High Street which was the site of part of The Cock Hotel. This was demolished to build a purpose-built store with the classic Woolworths architecture – 5 bays and a central pediment. Source: Woolworths Museum Woolworths traded here for…

Letchworth Woolworths – Store 356

32 Leys Avenue, Letchworth Garden City, Herts SG6 3EP Woolworths opened in Letchworth Garden City in 1929. It was a small store in a purpose-built two-storey building, with classic Woolworths architecture. Source: Herts Memories After this photo was taken in the 1960s, the store was extended to the left. The store closed in June 1986,…

Bishop’s Stortford Woolworths – Store 316

23 Potter Street, Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire CM23 3UN  [Extract from the Woolworths Museum] The store had first opened its doors (in Bishops Stortford) in June 1928, and had proved a goldmine from the start. It had been extended in 1934 and 1936, and had been extended again in 1966, when it had also been modernised. The…

St Albans Woolworths – Store 311

33 – 39 St Peters Street, St Albans, Herts Woolworths opened in St Albans in 1928. It was in an existing building, which you can see below – the small store in the centre with the canopies and two 1930s cars in front of it. Source: Pinterest In the 1970s, the market was held in…

Watford Woolworths – Store 68

118 – 128 High Street, Watford, Herts WD1 2BH Woolworths first came to Watford during World War One, when the fish and poultry shop owned by AE Smith at 124 High Street was replaced by “FW Woolworth and Co, bazaar” in 1916. Over the years, the store expanded by taking over adjacent shops, and carried…