Burnham-on-Sea Woolworths

8-10 High Street, Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset Woolworths opened in Burnham-on-Sea in 1952 in a former cinema. Source: Woolworths History and Photos It wasn’t here for long, trading for just 20 years. The store closed in the 1970s. This is the building today. Source: Burnham-on-sea.com

Wells Woolworths – Store 677

41 High Street, Wells, Somerset BA5 2AF Woolworths opened in the medieval city of Wells in Somerset in 1936. The building the store opened in is Grade II Listed – you can just about see it in the photo in the near right. The canopies are open. Source: Flickr – Jack Russell From Historic England,…

Minehead Woolworths – Store 669

The Avenue, Minehead, Somerset TA24 5TP Woolworths opened in Minehead in 1936. From this photo it looks it was a large store with no upper floor. Source: JJ Justin Leslie Tapp shares a sweet story, “My dad was manager of Minehead for about 10 years or so. Approx 1967 – 77 ish. I was abroad…

Wellington Woolworths (Somerset) – Store 605

17 Fore Street, Wellington, Somerset TA21 8AD Not to be confused with Store 424 (Wellington in Shropshire), Woolworths opened in Wellington, Somerset, in 1935 on Fore Street. It opened in a character building, the doors on the left opened up to an alleyway. Source: Historic England Mandi Brown tells us, “605 Wellington was my first…

Frome Woolworths – Store 557

16 Market Place, Frome, Somerset BA11 1AW Woolworths opened in Frome in 1934. It was on Market Place in a small purpose-built store. It was in the style of the traditional store – single storey with a central pediment – but made of stone to match the rest of the historic street. Source: bbc.co.uk They…

Bath Woolworths – Store 207

13-15 Stall Street, Bath, Somerset BA1 1QA Woolworths opened in Bath in 1925. The store, designed by William Priddle, was on the corner of Stall Street and Abbeygate Street. Local architects admired the building apart from ‘one conspicuous defect’ – the way the shopfront continued across the corner bay. Of course Woolworths favoured these corners….

Yeovil Woolworths – Store 206

19 Middle Street, Yeovil, Somerset BA20 1LF Woolworths opened on Middle Street in Yeovil, opposite the George Inn, in November 1925. Middle Street was the main road from London to the West Country then, so it was a very busy area. The store was extended in 1931, and then it looks as though it had a 1950s makeover from…

Bridgwater Woolworths – Store 115

18/20 Eastover, Bridgwater, Somerset The 115th Woolworths store opened in the historic market town of Bridgwater, Somerset in 1922, on the corner of Eastover and New Road (number 27 Eastover). This was quite soon after opening in neighbouring Taunton – Store 110. This is a 1940s-50s memory from a local: The counters and floors were…

Taunton Woolworths – Store 110 / 1189

18a/19 East Street, Taunton, Somerset / 40-42 Fore Street, Taunton. Somerset TA1 1NE The store address of the Taunton store is a bit of a mystery. From the store number 110, I can gather it opened in the spring of 1922. The 1970s store list says it was at 18a/19 East Street, of which the Woolworths Museum has…

Weston-super-Mare Woolworths – Store 81

64 High Street, Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset BS23 1HX Woolworths opened in the seaside town of Weston-super-Mare very early on, in 1919. You can see the building before it was a Woolworths in the below photo – in the centre with the roof windows. Source: Past and Present Publications Here is a photo of the Woolworths store when it…