Billericay Woolworths – Store 911

101 High Street, Billericay, Essex CM12 9AW Woolworths opened in Billericay in 1955/1956. They took over the site of the Telephone Exchange on the High Street, which had been on this spot from 1929 – 1952. The Telephone Exchange was demolished and Woolworths built the store in the below photo. It opened at a time when Self Service…

Banbury Woolworths – Store 428 / 1203

7 High Street, Banbury, Oxfordshire Woolworths opened on Banbury High Street in 1931, according to the Banbury Guardian. It was built on the site of the Red Lion Hotel, below on the left, which was demolished to make way for the new store. Source: Francis Frith Here you can see the Woolworths store on the…

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…

Uxbridge Woolworths – Store 370

157/158 High Street, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 1JY My local Woolies in Uxbridge opened in July 1929 at 158 High Street. It was a small purpose-built two-storey store, with the classic architecture on the upper floor (see in the below photo on the left). Source: philipsuter.co.uk Here is a postcard from the opening day in July…

Market Harborough Woolworths – Store 301

19 High Street, Market Harborough, Leics LE16 7NW Woolworths opened in Market Harborough on the site of an old motor garage at 19 High Street in 1928. The garage was demolished and the Woolworths store was built in their recognisable style. Source: Francis Frith  They traded here until the 1970s. Today a Savers store trades…

Guildford Woolworths – Store 285

56 High Street, Guildford, Surrey Woolworths opened their 285th store in Guildford in 1927. It originally was at 56 High Street, on what you can see is a slope, pictured below. They traded here for 30 years before relocating across the road. This photo was taken just before the relocation in 1958, and there are…

Salisbury Woolworths – Store 273

55 – 59 Silver Street, Salisbury, Wiltshire Woolworths opened in Salisbury in 1927 and it was originally at 55 – 59 Silver Street (right side, centre in the below photo). On the right here, the fascia has been changed to just ‘F.W. Woolworth & Co Ltd’ centred. The frontage looks quite large in this photo,…

Slough Woolworths – Store 263 / 1173 / 1243

190 High Street, Slough, Berkshire SL1 1JS Woolworths opened in Slough, Berkshire in 1927, on the busy and bustling High Street. You can see the store in this 1930s photo, with its 3d and 6d fascia and Art Deco facade. Woolworths is on the far left, a few doors down from the Eagle pub, which…

Staines Woolworths – Store 216

95/103 High Street, Staines, Middlesex Woolworths opened at 101-103 Staines High Street in 1926, next to the old White Lion pub, as you can see in the below 1950s photo. The pub was demolished in 1956 when the one-way road system was built. Source: pubshistory.com This photo is from the 1960s, you can see Woolworths…

Barnstaple Woolworths – Store 204

69 – 70 High Street, Barnstaple, Devon Woolworths opened in Barnstaple, North Devon, in 1925. We don’t know what the original store looked like, as the only photo I can find is this one which looks 1970s or 80. From the style of the building we can guess there was a 1950s makeover. It is…

Maidenhead Woolworths – Store 202

90/90a High Street, Maidenhead, Berkshire SL6 1PU Woolworths opened in the Berkshire town of Maidenhead in 1925, on the High Street. It was next to Barclays Bank (who are still there today, albeit in a more modern building). Source: Postcards of Maidenhead Maidenhead was one of the first stores called ‘Woolworths’ with a ‘s’, having been…

Oldham Woolworths – Store 181

12 – 20 High Street, Oldham, Lancs Woolworths opened in Oldham in 1925 on the High Street. It was quite unique in its architecture with its large upper floor windows and ‘Woolworths’ Stores’ across the centre. Note the apostrophe was after the ‘S’. Source: Historic England There was an extension in later years, as you…

Paisley Woolworths – Store 168

14 – 16 High Street, Paisley, Renfrewshire Woolworths opened on Paisley High Street in Scotland in 1924. Again I have no early photos of the store, just this one where we can gather there was a store makeover in 1969, with the oversized ‘Woolworth’ letters experiment on the fascia. According to a local Facebook group,…

Redhill Woolworths – Store 164

3-7 High Street, Redhill, Surrey RH1 1RE Woolworths opened on Redhill High Street in 1924, two doors down from a public house (The Junction). You can see it below on the left side of this 1933 photo, the second shop in. Source: Francis Frith Here is a later photo from 1955, from another angle. Woolworths is on the…

Grantham Woolworths – Store 157

8 Market Place, Grantham NG31 6LJ Woolworths opened in Grantham in 1924, originally on Market Place – this photo shows all the men who helped build the store. Source: Longland, M. Woolworths traded from Market Place for just over 30 years before moving to bigger premises (see on the left of this 1950s photo). Source:…

Bargoed Woolworths – Store 153

5 – 6 High Street, Bargoed, Glam CF8 8YJ Woolworths opened in the Welsh town of Bargoed in 1923. The High Street is on a hill, so although from the front it looks as though it was a single storey store, it did in fact have two lower floors, and there is an upper floor…

Kirkcaldy Woolworths – Store 145

234 – 242 High Street, Kirkcaldy, Fife The 145th Woolworths store opened in Kirkcaldy in Scotland. There are no photos of it on the internet at all, but we can guess from the photo of the building today, that it had a makeover in the 1950s/60s, being extended to become a huge store. The store…

Merthyr Tydfil Woolworths – Store 140

44 – 45 High Street, Merthyr Tydfil, Glam. The 140th Woolworths store opened in Wales in 1923, in a town called Merthyr Tydfil. Source: Francis Frith In the 1970s the store had a makeover, with this recognisable style. The makeover probably coincided with the conversion to self-service. Source: Alan George The store closed in December…

Dunfermline Woolworths – Store 124

52 – 58 High Street, Dunfermline, Fife We’re in Scotland again! Store 124 was on the medieval High Street of Dunfermline, Fife, and it opened in 1922. Source: Dunfermline Through Time – Simpson E., Robertson G. In the 1939 they moved across the road and built a new store with an Art Deco facade, contrasting…

Dumbarton Woolworths – Store 122

97 – 99 High Street, Dumbarton, Strathclyde G82 1PH In 1922 Woolworths opened another Scottish store in the Glasgow area – in the town of Dumbarton. They opened next to the Earl of Glencairn’s Greit House of 1623 (the building with the arches on the left of this photo) Source: Historic England In the 1930s…