In and out the windows - from the Woolworths Virtual Museum. (A digitally adapted picture of our store in the Arndale Centre, Luton, Bedfordshire)

  
   
Woolies first British store in Church Street, Liverpool - Christmas card style. (Image: Paul Seaton, with special thanks to Mr. Ray Gallanders) Frank Woolworth used to tell his stores that the windows were their advertisements. By locating his stores in busy high streets he could guarantee that lots of people would pass by. A good window display would tempt them inside.

On this page we take a whistle-stop tour of Christmas windows since we opened our first British store in November 1909.

 

 

Left: Church Street, Liverpool, 1909
   
Below: Gillingham, Kent, 1924  
Woolworths in High Street, Gillingham, pictured in 1924
   
Below: Wallington, Surrey, 1934  
Woolworths in Woodcote Road, Wallington, Surrey pictured shortly after it opened in 1934
 
Below: Selsdon, Surrey, 1955
Addington Road, Selsdon, Surrey pictured in 1955
       
Below: Basingstoke, Hampshire, 1969      

Woolworths in the Shopping Centre at Basingstoke, Hampshire, pictured in 1970
       
Below: Debden, Essex, 1984      
Woolworths on the Debden Estate, Loughton in Essex, pictured in 1984 (Image with thanks to Mr. Stephen Bruce)
   
Below: Selsdon, Surrey, 1998

 
Woolworths in Addington Road, Selsdon, Surrey in 1998 (Picture: Paul Seaton)
 
Below: Metro Centre, Gateshead, 2000
One of the largest Woolworths stores in the country - at Gateshead Metro Centre in Tyne and Wear in 2000
 

Below: Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, 2003

Market Place, Kingston-upon-Thames, Christmas 2003 (Picture: Paul Seaton)
         

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