Alnwick Woolworths – Store 822

32 Bondgate Within, Alnwick, Northumberland NE66 1JB Woolworths opened in Alnwick on 26th November 1953, originally at 32 Bondgate Within, where they traded for 15 years. Source: Soult, G. Source: Flickr – Bill M 40-42 Bondgate Within, Alnwick, Northumberland NE66 1JB In 1968 Alnwick Woolworths moved along the same road to numbers 40-42. Source: bailiffgatecollections.co.uk…

Blyth Woolworths – Store 544

10 – 20 Market Street, Blyth, Northumberland NE24 1BH Woolworths opened in Blyth in 1934. It was quite a large store on Market Street, that you can see in this rare colour photo from the 1950s. It was a very busy store, often heaving on the Friday/Saturday market days. Source: Foster, I. Source: Rootschat.com Source:…

Morpeth Woolworths – Store 439

8 Bridge Street, Morpeth, Northumberland NE61 1NH Woolworths opened in Morpeth in May 1931. It was a small purpose-built store. Source: Soult’s Retail View Source: Soult’s Retail View The appearance of the Morpeth Woolworths store stay the same through all the decades, and even when it closed in December 2008, the original curved 1930s windows…

North Shields Woolworths – Store 426

12a Saville Street West, North Shields, Northumberland NE29 6QT Woolworths opened in North Shields on the 13th September 1930. You can see the store on the right of the below photo with the canopies. It had opened in an existing building, next to Gregg’s Cafe. Source: Soults Retail View In November 1958 the store was…

Wallsend-on-Tyne Woolworths – Store 351

73 – 75 High Street West, Wallsend-on-Tyne, Northumberland Woolworths opened in Wallsend in 1929. It was originally at 73 – 75 High Street West and they traded here until 1959. There are no photos online of the early Woolworths store, but the building today is a vacant one. 2 – 4 High Street East, Wallsend-on-Tyne,…

Whitley Bay Woolworths – Store 277

238 Whitley Road, Whitley Bay, Northumberland NE26 2TD Woolworths opened in the seaside town of Whitley Bay in 1927. I can’t find any photos from the early decades. The earliest is from 1987. From the style of the building, we can estimate this store was built in the 1950s. It was a large store with…

Berwick-Upon-Tweed Woolworths – Store 232

76 – 80 Marygate, Berwick-Upon-Tweed, Northumberland Woolworths opened in the historic Elizabethan walled town of Berwick-Upon-Tweed on 28th August 1926, somewhere along Marygate. In March 1937, a new building was built at numbers 76 – 80 with an Art Deco facade, where Woolworths moved to. Source: Soult G. Below is a close-up from 1959 –…

Ashington Woolworths – Store 229

14 – 18 Station Road, Ashington, Northumberland NE63 9UL Woolworths opened in the former mining town of Ashington in 1926. A lovely Art Deco building was built on Station Road – see on the left of this photo. It was quite a large store as you can see from the size of the frontage. The…

Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Woolworths – Store 27

15/21 Northumberland Street, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, NE1 7BB The twenty-seventh Woolworths store opened on 6th September 1913 at 17 Northumberland Street, next to the first Fenwicks department store. Every picture from the early years shows a Carter Paterson’s lorry or container – they brought up goods from the railway station to replenish the counters. Source: Woolworths Museum…