Hockley Woolworths – Store 660

405- 407 Lodge Road, Hockley, Birmingham B18 5BY Woolworths opened in Hockley in 1936. Hockley is an inner-city area of Birmingham and is part of the Jewellery Quarter. So presumably, in those days, this area would have attracted more well-off customers. It wasn’t a purpose- built store, opening in an existing building next to a…

Birmingham (Lozells Road) Woolworths -Store 437

89 – 91 Lozells Road, Birmingham B19 2TR Woolworths opened in Lozells Road in Birmingham in 1931. It closed in the 1970s/80s. It wasn’t a purpose-build Woolworths store. From the address we can work out the it was where Bismillah Bakery and Dixy Chicken are today.

Erdington Woolworths – Store 389

153-157 High Street, Erdington, Birmingham, West Midlands B23 6TP Woolworths opened in the Birmingham suburb of Erdington on the 8th November 1930. The store was on a corner plot on the High Street and on Barnabas Road. It was extended 5 years later in 1935. Below is a photo from 1950. The ground level was…

Small Heath (Birmingham) Woolworths – Store 338

350 – 354 Coventry Road, Small Heath, Birmingham B10 0XF Woolworths opened in Small Heath, Birmingham, in 1928. I’m sorry, this is going to be a short but sweet post as I can find nothing about the store, apart from it closing in December 1983. So it traded for 55 years. Today that address is…

Handsworth Woolworths – Store 299

210 – 214 Soho Road, Handsworth, Birmingham B21 9LU The first Woolworths store to open in the year of 1928 was in Handsworth, Birmingham. It opened on Soho Road (It’s the middle terraced building in this photo. Burton is on the far right in an Art Deco style building.) Source: Photographs of Birmingham The store…

Birmingham New Street Woolworths – Store 266

103/104 New Street, Birmingham B2 4HG Woolworths opened its second Birmingham store, after the Bull Ring, in New Street in July 1927. They traded from this side of the road for about 20 years, until there was serious bomb damage during WW2. Source: Birmingham City Centre Past Facebook group In 1956, the site of Birmingham’s…

Smethwick (Birmingham) Woolworths – Store 170

63 – 65 Cape Hill, Smethwick, Warley, West Midlands B66 4SF In 1924 Woolworths opened its 170th store in Smethwick, which is a town 4 miles west of Birmingham City Centre. It opened on Cape Hill and it looks like it was a small store from this photo. The date is closure is unknown, but…

Birmingham Aston Woolworths – Store 137

95 Aston Road North, Birmingham B6 4DA Woolworths opened a third Birmingham store on Aston Road North, on the corner of Burlington Street, in 1923. It was near the Aston Hippodrome. The other stores were Store 103 and Store 266. Thank you Marc Harvey for finding the below photo of the store. Source: Historic England…

Birmingham Bull Ring Woolworths – Store 103

105/107 The Bull Ring Centre, Birmingham B5 4QN Originally, Woolworths opened in Birmingham City Centre on Spiceal Street in 1921, 6 years before the nearby New Street branch opened. THEN: Source: Woolworths Museum It was hugely successful in this location – sales were amongst the highest in the country in the 1930s – so they…

Birmingham Pallasades – Store 1172

1- 2 East Mews, The Pallasades, Birmingham B2 4XA This store opened in the Pallasades Shopping Centre on 31st October 1991. It was the first time Woolworths had returned to Birmingham City Centre after the closure of the Bull Ring and New Street branches back in the 1980s. This photo is from my Facebook group,…