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I've been amazed by how quickly all traces of Woolies existence have gone from the store in Small Local Town that closed on 27th December.
Within 2 days every piece of paper, display sign, and all other evidence of its existence had totally vanished. Inside it is entirely empty.
All that remains is the sign on the shop facade.
I am very sad. Not least because, when shopping in an unfamiliar town, one always knew that one could find most oddmenty things one required in Woolies. Now, sourcing certain things will be impossible in some small towns, or require local knowledge not available to the casual visitor.
Blue Witch | Homepage | 06.01.09 - 8:21 a.m. | #
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Yes, blue witch, a very quick loss of Woolworth identity. I went to a store (Twickenham) on its last afternoon of trading, and half the store was already fenced off with a crew there dismantling the fixtures and fittings, whilst we shoppers grabbed any bargains from the remaining part of the store.
John | 06.01.09 - 8:58 a.m. | #
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Are you still working at the school, John?
Debster | Homepage | 06.01.09 - 10:30 a.m. | #
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A friend in Glasgow has taken a few pics of some signs in a branch there:
http://flickr.com/photos/thekara...sea/3172229832/
http://flickr.com/photos/thekara...sea/3171390571/
martin | 06.01.09 - 10:48 a.m. | #
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A blog for historical Woolworth photos? I only ever bought chocolate in Woolworth - and that got too pricey.
Richard | Homepage | 06.01.09 - 1:33 p.m. | #
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I remember my first visit to London in 1995 (little I knew that some ten years after I'd been actually living there), going to the South Woodford Woolies and finding it glamorous and exciting and full of interesting stuff. I can't decide if it seemed glamorous because:
a. it was glamorous indeed
b. I was twenty-something and coming from a boring place
My local Woolsworths in Kilburn, last month, on a depressing scale from 0 to 10 rated "thoughts of suicide" (maybe because I'm older and disillusioned?). Still, I'm sorry to see it gone.
Barbara Jacob | Homepage | 06.01.09 - 3:43 p.m. | #
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Our Woolies took all the shop signage down several days before it closed
ambermoggie | Homepage | 06.01.09 - 4:25 p.m. | #
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I do remember we had a Woolworths when l was growing up in Bulawayo in Rhodesia (now zimbabwe) so the shop was indeed all over the world.
Vetnurse | Homepage | 06.01.09 - 8:52 p.m. | #
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Farewell Woolies. I'm so glad I got to visit one final time about a week ago during a Christmas break in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Andrewh | 06.01.09 - 9:22 p.m. | #
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A shame it didn't make it to 100. I wonder what they had planned...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/324...N00/3167623566/
Mark | 06.01.09 - 9:38 p.m. | #
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Tomorrow is another day. Now all we need to know is which of Woolworth's 807 stores falls into the group of 300 that the administrators have had approaches for. Bearing in mind the break up of Somerfield has not yet worked its way through the system and that the Competition Commission has views about the Tescolians and Asdari, the retail equilavent of Cybermen and Daleks, taking over in the High Street it could be an interesting few months - At least the retail space won't be taken up by the Living Dead aka Building Societies. If only there was a new vigorous Time Lord to save the day.
Bob | 07.01.09 - 7:43 p.m. | #
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is that iceland i see arriving in bow?!?
Paul | 09.01.09 - 10:53 p.m. | #
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