Liverpool (West Derby Road) Woolworths – Store 903

539 West Derby Road, Liverpool L13 8AB Woolworths opened on West Derby Road in Liverpool in 1955. You can see it below on the right side of the photo. Source: Old Photographs Of Liverpool Liverpool Picturebook This Woolworths closed in the 1970s/80s. Today Heron Foods is in its place. Source: Google Maps

Old Swan (Prescot Road, Liverpool) Woolworths – Store 802

613 – 615 Prescot Road, Old Swan, Liverpool L13 5XB Woolworths opened in Old Swan in 1953. Old Swan is an eastern neighbourhood of Liverpool. This was the 10th Woolworths branch to open in Liverpool. Source: Flickr scousevulture The store was part of a parade of shop and traded here for 55 years, closing in…

Liverpool (Park Road) – Store 794

191-199 Park Road, Liverpool L8 6SQ A post-war Liverpool store, this Woolworths opened in 1953, and closed before 1995 as it’s not on that store list. You can recognise it was a Woolworths store, although the windows have been bricked up. It was a Kwik-Save for a while. Source: Mayer, P. Today there’s a carpet…

Liverpool (Allerton Road) Woolworths – Store 777

5 Allerton Road, Liverpool, Merseyside L18 1LH Woolworths opened their 6th Liverpool store in 1952 on Allerton Road. You can see the building has been extended over the years in these photos. Source: FB Liverpool in black n white Source: FB Woolworths History and Photos Source: FB Liverpool in black n white In the 1970s…

New Brighton Woolworths – Store 752

Victoria Road, New Brighton, Wallasey CH45 2JD Woolworths opened in New Brighton in 1939, the second Woolworths in Wallasey (the first was store 381). New Brighton was a thriving seaside town at that time, in Wallesey, Merseyside. Source: History of Wallasey Shopping Among the other shopkeepers on this side of the road was William Organ…

Prescot Woolworths – Store 610

41-43 Eccleston Street, Prescot, Merseyside L34 5QD Woolworths opened in Prescot in 1935. It was a purpose-built store in a very prominent position on Eccleston Street. The store to its left was built in a similar style – it is possible that Woolworths built this and rented it out as a way of making more…

New Ferry Woolworths – Store 521

76 New Chester Road, New Ferry, Wirral, Merseyside CH62 5AJ Woolworths opened in New Ferry in 1933 on New Chester Road. It was a purpose-built store which you can see on the far left of this photo. Source: Pinterest Woolworths traded from this location for 75 years, closing in December 2008. Source: Ballysundriven It became…

Liverpool (Walton Road) Woolworths – Store 479

221 – 225 Walton Road, Liverpool L4 4AP Woolworths opened their 9th Liverpool store in 1932. It was on Walton Road, a purpose-built store on a corner plot (the junction of Walton Road and Croylands Street). Sadly I can’t find any photos of the store when it was open, or have a closing date. From…

Liverpool, Walton Vale Woolworths – Store 461

59 Walton Vale, Liverpool L9 4RG Woolworths opened in the Liverpool suburb of Walton in 1932. It was on Walton Vale in a purpose-built store, with the standard architecture of 5 bays, 2 storeys and a central pediment. You can see it on the centre right side of this photo, with its canopy open. Source:…

Liverpool (Wavertree Road) Woolworths – Store 455

62 – 64 Wavertree Road, Liverpool L7 1PH Woolworths opened another branch in Liverpool in 1931 on Wavertree Road. The below photo was commisioned by Woolworths prior to the opening day of 19th September 1931. Look how enticing the window displays are. Source: National Museums Liverpool Woolworths traded here for 40 years, closing in the…

Waterloo (Liverpool) Woolworths – Store 419

84 – 90 South Road, Waterloo, Liverpool L22 0NA Woolworths opened in Waterloo, an area of Liverpool, in 1930. We can recognise the Woolworths architecture, slightly longer than usual. There’s not much information on the store from the early days. In the 2000s it became a General Store with a new store number of 2026….

Southport Woolworths – Store 400

41 – 49 Chapel Street, Southport, Merseyside PR8 1AJ Woolworths opened their 400th store in Southport in 1930. It was a very large store right from the start, although I am not sure if this is a purpose-built store – the upper floor architecture is different from the other Woolworth stores. It could be possible,…

Liverpool (Great Homer Street) Woolworths – Store 387

88 – 90 Great Homer Street, Liverpool, Merseyside L5 3LF Woolworths opened another Liverpool store in 1930, this time in the North End side. It was on Great Homer Street which became an exclusive shopping street in the 1930s. Below is a photo of the Woolworths store in the 1960s. Source: scottiepress.org You can see…

Bootle Woolworths – Store 386

Stanley Road, Bootle, Merseyside  Woolworths opened in Bootle in 1930. It was on Stanley Road, in an existing building. See it in the photo below – it had Burton on one side, Weaver & Wearer on the other. Bootle Woolworths 1961 Source: Bootle Times 35 years later, the shops on one side of Stanley Road…