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Finding old Woolworths stores in unlikely places, courtesy of The New Bond
Copies of The New Bond One of the things I most love about researching retail history is the way that interesting stories can emerge from the tiniest leads. As a Woolworths enthusiast, I’ve recently...
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Logging the North East’s long-closed former Woolies
Former Linthorpe Road Woolworths, Middlesbrough Last week’s blog post about the long-closed former Woolworths in Benwell seems to have opened the floodgates to lots of comments and insights about other...
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The ghosts of Washington’s former Woolworths
Former Woolworths (now Heron Foods), New Washington (Concord) (17 Jun 2010) Back in February, I blogged about the former Woolworths store in Sunderland’s Fawcett Street, which closed in 2004 following...
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Piecing together the history of Shields Road’s old Woolies
Former Woolworths in Shields Road. Photo from Newcastle City Council, P&T Image Archive (UPDATE: Since I wrote this post, it’s been confirmed that the A&S Discount building was indeed Byker’s...
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Remembering Byker Woolies’ Mr Corson and his Staff
Around the Stores (The New Bond, August 1949) I’ve mentioned Woolies’ old ‘house journal’, The New Bond, almost as often as I’ve written about the history of Byker’s Woolworths stores, so I was pleased...
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Long-lost London Woolies in High Holborn and Tottenham Court Road
Grays Inn Road entrance to former High Holborn Woolworths (5 Apr 2011) Sometimes I wish I was able to clone my blogging self, in order to have more time to write about all the topics that I’d love to...
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Felling and North Kenton – two more long-closed Tyneside Woolies
Former Woolworths, Felling (17 Jun 2010) This is my 200th blog post since starting Soult’s Retail View back in July 2009, so it seems only appropriate for it to bring together two of my favourite...
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One town, five stores: tracking down Middlesbrough’s ex-Woolworths (part 1)
91-93 Linthorpe Road, Middlesbrough (4 May 2011) After making my first visit to Middlesbrough’s most recent former Woolworths – the site of today’s Discount UK – back in September 2009, Soult’s Retail...
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One town, five stores: tracking down Middlesbrough’s ex-Woolworths (part 2)
Former Woolworths, 51-67 Linthorpe Road, Middlesbrough (24 Feb 2010) Last month I wrote about the former Woolworths store at 91-93 Linthorpe Road in Middlesbrough (store #8, below), which opened there...
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A Woolworths staff photo from 1938 – but can you identify the location?
Postcard of unknown Woolworths shopfront, 2 April 1938 The last time I shared an old photograph of an unidentified Woolworths store, Soult’s Retail View readers were quick to identify it as the...
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A brief history of Morpeth Woolworths
1960s postcard of Morpeth Woolworths As you’d probably expect, I get my fair share of Woolworths-related enquiries, given that I’ve written (and talked) so much about the retailer’s long and...
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