209 – 211 Preston Road, Wembley, Middx HA9 8NF Woolworths opened on Preston Road in Wembley in 1955. It was in the parade of shops just by the Preston Road London Underground Station (Metropolitan Line). There is an interesting history to this area which you can read here: https://wembleymatters.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-preston-story-part-3.html. You can glimpse the Woolworths store…
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Caledonian Road Woolworths – Store 892
259a Caledonian Road, London N1 1EE Woolworths opened on London’s Caledonian Road in 1955. Very similar in style to the Shoreditch store that opened 2 years later. Today it is an Iceland store. Source: LDS This post was originally written in June 2017
Hampstead Woolworths – Store 681
68 – 69 High Street, Hampstead, London NW3 1QP Woolworths opened in Hampstead, North West London, in 1936. It was in an existing store on the High Street. Source: Historic England Sadly there was a fire in 1946. Source: media storehouse Source: alamy.com Woolworths traded from here just over 40 years. Former store manager John…
Norbury Woolworths – Store 602
1491 – 1493 London Road, Norbury, London SW16 4AE Woolworths opened in Norbury, South London, in 1935. At this point they were nearing 100 London stores. Nearby there was Croydon (Stores 12 and 234), Tooting (Store 64) Streatham (Store 78), Balham (Store 305), Norwood (Stores 196 and 586) and Mitcham (Store 566). The Norbury branch…
West Wickham Woolworths – Store 561
87 High Street, West Wickham, Kent BR4 0NZ Woolworths opened in West Wickham High Street in 1934. You can see it in the centre of this 1950s photo. It was purpose built in a style to fit with the new parade of shops. West Wickham grew from a village to a town in the 1930s. Source: Beckenham History…
Mill Hill Broadway Woolworths – Store 540
43 The Broadway, Mill Hill, London NW7 3DE Woolworths opened in Mill Hill on the 23rd March 1934. Although the building looks like it may have been a cinema, it was probably a purpose-built store according to @InsideMillHill. Perhaps the Woolworths architects were experimenting with facade designs. Source: Pinterest Source: Twitter @Barneteye Woolworths traded from…
Bexleyheath Woolworths – Store 390 / 1226
115-117 The Broadway, Bexleyheath, Kent DA6 7JN Woolworths opened in Bexleyheath in 1930. It was a purpose-built single storey store at 115-117 The Broadway. It was hit by an air raid in World War II. The building was saved by firefighters. Woolworths traded from this building for just over 50 years before changes came to Bexleyheath. Source: Kennett,…
Upper Edmonton Woolworths – Store 367
96 – 102 Fore Street, Upper Edmonton, London N18 2XA Woolworths opened in Upper Edmonton, North London, in 1929. As you can see in the below photo, it was originally a classic two-storey building. Source: Facebook Then it was extended to the right, taking over the neighbouring shops to create a Horticultural department and a…
Kings Road Woolworths – Store 364
60 – 62 Kings Road, Chelsea, London SW3 Woolworths opened on the King’s Road in Chelsea in 1929. Another branch of Woolworths opened in laters years on the opposite end of the same road. This one was at numbers 60 – 62, and it opened in an existing parade of shops. Source: Pinterest Source: The…
New Cross Woolworths – Store 362
277 – 281 New Cross Road, New Cross, London SE14 6AS Woolworths opened in New Cross, South East London, in September 1929. Until 1944 it was just an ordinary store, but sadly it became the Woolworths store well known for being hit in Britain’s worst V2 attack. It was during WWII, while people were doing…
Lambeth Woolworths – Store 354
112-113 Lower Marsh, Lambeth, London SE1 7AF Woolworths opened in Lambeth in 1929 – this was on Lower Marsh just behind London Waterloo station. It was a small two-storey building, purpose-built with the familiar Woolworths architecture. Source: Lambeth Photo Archives There isn’t much information about the store online, but I can imagine it was a…
Islington Woolworths – Store 353
40 – 42 Chapel Market, Islington, London N1 9EN “In 1929 F. W. Woolworth & Co. Ltd built one of its characteristic neo-Georgian stores at Nos 40 – 42 Chapel Market, a large L-shaped building with a second frontage at 20 – 29 Liverpool Road.” [Extract from British History Online continued below] This standard Woolworths style…
Whitechapel Woolworths – Store 346
102 – 105 High Street, Whitechapel, London E1 7PW Woolworths opened in 1928 in Whitechapel, East London, on the corner of Whtechapel High Street and Commercial Street, at numbers 102 – 105. It was in a building that has a long history – you can read more about it here. Venables furnishers/drapers went out of business…
Twickenham Woolworths – Store 333 / 2018
18 – 22 King Street, Twickenham, Middlesex Woolworths opened in Twickenham in 1928. It was a large 2-storey purpose-built store. In the late 1990s it was chosen to be a General Store, and the store was renumbered to 2018. My husband was transferred there for a week from the Greenford store, when Twickenham opened as…
Camden Town Woolworths – Store 329
115 – 119 High Street, Camden Town, London NW1 7JS Woolworths opened in Camden Town in 1928, down the road from the Kentish Town branch. It was close to Camden Town Underground station, on the junction of Delancey Street and the High Street, and it was a purpose-built single storey store. Source: Museum of London…
Bow Woolworths – Store 314
572 – 574 Roman Street, Bow, London E3 5ES Woolworths opened in Bow, East London, in 1928. It was on Roman Road in a purpose-built single-storey buidling. You’ll be familiar with the architecture by now, with the centred pediment. The building remained unchanged over the years if you look at the upper floor. But the…
Elephant & Castle Woolworths – Store 313
Newington Butts, Elephant and Castle, London SE1 Woolworths opened a store in Elephant and Castle, South London, in 1928. It was a single storey store on Newington Butts, that sadly only traded for 13 years. The whole store was destroyed during WW2. Here is an extractr from the Woolworths Museum: “Woolworth store ‘313’ in Newington…
Camberwell Woolworths – Store 310
56 – 60 Denmark Hill, Camberwell, London SE5 8RZ Woolworths opened their 310th store in Camberwell, South London. It was on Denmark Hill, and going by the look of the upper floor in these photos, it had a makeover in the 1950s. You can see the updated store in the centre right of this photo….
Poplar Woolworths – Store 302
7-11 Chrisp Street, Poplar, London E14 Woolworths opened in Poplar, East London, in 1928. It was on Chrisp Street in a small purpose-built store. It had an unusual shopfront with square windows. By 1939 the store had been extended to the right. The area was bombed heaving in WW2 as it was close to London’s docks….
Catford Woolworths – Store 296
130 – 134 Rushey Green, Catford, London SE6 4HN Woolworths opened in Catford in 1927, on Rushey Green. At some point it was extended to become a large L-shaped store, with a side entrance on Holbeach Road. From the front there was a coffee bar on the right as you walked in. The below photo…
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