Cleveleys Woolworths – Store 810

47-51 Victoria Road West, Cleveleys, Lancashire FY5 1BT Woolworths opened in coastal town of Cleveleys, just north of Blackpool, in 1953. A large store, it does look purpose-built. This photo is from a store re-opening, most probably after a refurbishment. Source: Forshaw, C. Janet Worthington worked at this store and she shares this, “810 Cleveleys…

Ormskirk Woolworths – Store 793

7-9 Burscough Street, Ormskirk, Lancashire Woolworths opened in Ormskirk in 1953, originally a small store on Burscough Street. Source: Ormskirk Bygone Times Around 1962 they moved to bigger premised. The original building is a bookies now. Interestingly red like Woolworths. 6-8 Aughton Street, Ormskirk, Lancashire L39 3BR The new store was built on the site…

Morecambe Woolworths (Seafront) – Store 751

Marine Road Central, Morecambe, Lancashire LA4 4BU Woolworths opened in Morecambe in 1939. This was the second Woolworths in this seaside town, just a 10 minute walk from the first (Store 408) which opened in 1930. The newer seafront store had an eye-catching art deco frontage. Source: Facebook Source: Kapp, A. Woolworths traded from this…

Heywood Woolworths – Store 704

10 – 12 Market Street, Heywood, Lancs Woolworths opened in Heywood in 1937. It was a purpose-built store with an Art Deco style facade. It closed in the 1970s/80s and today there is a Wetherspoons pub in the building.

Clitheroe Woolworths – Store 626

39 Castle Street, Clitheroe, Lancashire BB7 2BT Woolworths opened in Clitheroe in 1935. It was a purpose-built store with a stone facade. The building was on a slope so there was a step into the entrance. Source: Twitter – @thoughtfox Source: Clitheroe Past and Present Source: Kapp, A. Clitheroe Woolworths closed in December 2008. Today…

Fleetwood Woolworths – Store 613

183 Lord Street, Fleetwood, Lancashire FY7 6SW Woolworths opened in Fleetwood in 1935. It was a small purpose-built store with the recognisable architecture, and extended in 1937. Source: Law, J. The store was modernised in 1967. Source: Co-op Historian This Woolworths store closed in January 2009, and became a discount store called Steals. Today it…

Hindley Woolworths – Store 612

64 Market Street, Hindley, Wigan, Lancashire WN2 3AN Woolworths opened in Hindley in 1935. It was a small, purpose-built store with the classic architecture of 5 bays, red brick and a central pediment. Source: Hunt, R. It closed down in the 1980s. Today it is a Coral betting shop with another floor added on top…

Rawtenstall Woolworths – Store 607

49-51 Bank Street, Rawtenstall, Lancashire BB4 7QN Woolworths opened in Rawtenstall in 1935. It was a purpose-built store with a stone facade to match the rest of the street. Source: Historic England Source: Facebook Source: Facebook The store closed in December 2008 after trading from this location for 73 years. Source: Rossday Looking on Flickr,…

Bacup Woolworths – Store 482

10 St James’ Square, Bacup, Lancs Woolworths opened in Bacup in 1932. It was a purpose-built store with the standard Woolworths architecture, at the start of St James’ Square and next to the junction with Yorkshire Street. Source: Francis Frith The store closed in June 1986 and apparently locals signed a petition to save it….

Ulverston Woolworths – Store 478

4 Market Street, Ulverston, Lancashire LA12 7AZ Woolworths opened in Ulverston in 1932. It was a small purpose-built store – I think you will recognise the archictecture in the below photo. Source: @Ulverston_Town In this 1980s photo, the window is advertising ‘Going Back to School. Going Back to College’. There is also a vicar riding…

Colne Woolworths – Store 411

42 – 44 Market Street, Colne, Lancs In 1930 Woolworths opened in the town of Colne on Market Street, on the site of an old bakers. The bakery was demolished and the Woolworths store built – you can see it pictured below with the front part of the store protruding. In 1963 a lot of…

Darwen Woolworths – Store 410

36 – 38 Market Street, Darwen, Lancs BB3 1PS Woolworths opened in Darwen in 1930 on Market Street. It was a purpose-built store on the right side of a block shared with Burtons, and the whole block had an Art Deco facade. We can see in this photo how the fascia had 3d and 6d…

Chorley Woolworths – Store 409

52 – 54 Market Street, Chorley, Lancs PR7 2SB Woolworths opened in Chorley in 1930 on Market Street. The store was built with an Art Deco facade. Source: Chorley Citizen Source: Pinterest They traded from this building for 65 years, before closing in March 1995 in order to move to a new store on Market…

Morecambe Woolworths – Store 408

30 Euston Road, Morecambe, Lancs Woolworths opened in the seaside town of Morecambe in 1930 on Euston Road. In 1939 a second branch opened on the seafront with a more Art Deco look (Store 751) – this will be covered in a future blog post. Unfortunately I cannot find any photos of the Euston Road…

Radcliffe Woolworths – Store 399

35 – 39 Blackburn Street, Radcliffe, Lancashire Woolworths opened in Radcliffe in 1930. It was on Blackburn Street in an existing building on the corner of Railway Street. Many locals have happy memories of this store. Source: Facebook The store closed down in the early 1970s, and the building was taken over by a DIY…

Nelson Woolworths – Store 398

10a – 12a Scotland Road, Nelson, Lancashire Woolworths opened in Nelson in 1930. It was on Scotland Road, in a building that was built by Burton. The stylish building was split between Burton, The British Shoe shop and Woolworth. Source: Flickr In the 1970s Woolworths left this building and moved to bigger premises on a…

Blackpool (Bond Street) Woolworths – Store 309

7 – 11 Bond Street, Blackpool, Lancs FY4 1BH Woolworths opened their second Blackpool store in 1928. The first one was Store 66, by Blackpool Tower (opened in 1916). This one was nearer the South Pier side of the seaside, on the corner of Bond Street and Waterloo Road. From this photo we can see it was…

Rochdale Woolworths – Store 274

41 – 43 Yorkshire Street, Rochdale, Lancs OL16 1BU Woolworths opened in Rochdale in 1927 on Yorkshire Street.It probably started off as a small store, as we know that in 1938 a new store was constructed with a grand facade added (see below photo). According K. Morrison’s ‘Woolworth’s 100 Years on the High Street’, the windows…

Ashton-under-Lyne Woolworths – Store 264 / 1190

173 Stamford Street Central, Ashton-under-Lyne OL6 7PS Woolworths opened in Ashton-under-Lyne in 1927. It originally opened a small store in Stamford Street, which was fashionable in the old days. Although I don’t have a photo, local resident Sheila Fogg remembers the wooden floorboards, and buying her first single from there with a record token. “I was…

Barrow-in-Furness Woolworths – Store 242

153 – 159 Dalton Road, Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire Woolworths opened in Barrow-in-Furness towards the end of 1926. It was a large store, spanning two shopfronts. Source: Francis Frith Sometime after 1986, the store downsized, and a quarter of the shop space became Superdrug. This was on the left side.  In 1996 Paul Mcghee was the store manager, followed…