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Woolworths Memories

They still have Woolworths in Germany although it's not the original company who own them now.
I have been in this branch in Füssen with my sister..
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Card box holding modelling tools, razor saw, craft knife, mini-drill etc. Still working through envelopes and writing paper, (writing? what's that?), polypockets, essential for genealogy and 'useful' printouts, mega carrier bag doing sterling service keeping lesser carrier bags tidy.

Lots of branches had wooden floors that nearly always creaked. 'Woolies' might have been 'cheap' but it was all quality stuff, especially if it carried their brand. Some of the shops that partially fill their niche sell cheap junk, "Well it only cost a pound, what do you expect? (Thirty years life if from Woolies!)
 
Brummie a long time ago said:
I got my wife from Woolworth. Or to put it a bit better, she was a shop assistant there late 60’s early 70’s. Sorry not Brum, but with Woolworth that is probably OK. You could always find what you wanted in a Woolies. The brand name Winfield still gives us an “Ooohh” feeling, especially when it turns up at home now in an old tin of bits and bobs. Andrew.
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Remenber Woolies in Acocks Green sure it had a wooden floor .Loved Woolworths
 
farmerdave said:
Unfortunately my diary just says "Yardley" and being 62 years ago I cannot remember exactly where it was. Agree that I always associate the Swan with Yardley. Previously on that day I had been to Blakesley Hall, which I think is also in Yardley.
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The Woolworths at the Yew Tree Yardley it was in the row of shops on the left hand side coming from Yardley Old Church. There was a large area of pavement on that side of the shops. There was a Wallpaper shop a Wrensons a FineFare . This is going back some years.
 
Time Traveller 66 said:
Remenber Woolies in Acocks Green sure it had a wooden floor .Loved Woolworths
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I seem to remember lovely wooden floors and wooden counters.
I got lost in Woollies once - it was only that I was little (aged about 3) and the counters were high. I was the opposite side of the counter and couldn't see my Mom. Apparently Mom heard me before she noticed I had wandered off. :D She soon found me and peace was restored.
 
Time Traveller 66 said:
The Woolworths at the Yew Tree Yardley it was in the row of shops on the left hand side coming from Yardley Old Church. There was a large area of pavement on that side of the shops. There was a Wallpaper shop a Wrensons a FineFare . This is going back some years.
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Now 'The William Tyler' operated by Wetherspoons. I don't think they do 6d and 1/- drinks though!

Ray's Wallpapers, at the end of the row was still operating until a few years ago.

Fine Fare is now Iceland.
 
I can't remember the branch of Woollies my mother took me to as a boy. Was there one in Ladypool Rd? I do remember the women at their tills stuffing pound notes and fivers into those strange capsules which were then whisked away to some mysterious place via a series of vacuum tubes. And I remember a favourite toy, which was the little yellow plastic chicken that laid little eggs when it was pressed down. It used to fascinate me!
 
Ray T said:
I can't remember the branch of Woollies my mother took me to as a boy. Was there one in Ladypool Rd? I do remember the women at their tills stuffing pound notes and fivers into those strange capsules which were then whisked away to some mysterious place via a series of vacuum tubes. And I remember a favourite toy, which was the little yellow plastic chicken that laid little eggs when it was pressed down. It used to fascinate me!
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My favourite was the pick and mix counter
 
Hi,
Your post reminded me of the airfix models, I got mine from a shop on green lane just off the Hobmoor Road and Blake Lane junction, it was a toy,model, and paper shop if I recall correctly.
i had a spitfire , Lancaster bomber, hanging of the ceiling in my bedroom suspended by cotton and drawing pins. Happy days then.
 
Mark Tooze said:
The model I really wanted (and REALLY could not afford...) was the Revell 4" tall Saturn V - it was £7 19/6d from Boots in New Street - I finally got it years later when they reissued it (cost me £75 then!) - Woolworths did not stock this one.
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The other additional costs of those models especially airfix was the pots of paint
 
when i look at this thread it reminds me of the sat mom and gran went shopping to erdington woolies, and being a moocher from a young age, i got lost,and ended up in the police station,when mom come to get me i was chomping biscuits and drinking tea:grinning:
 
mw0njm. said:
when i look at this thread it reminds me of the sat mom and gran went shopping to erdington woolies, and being a moocher from a young age, i got lost,and ended up in the police station,when mom come to get me i was chomping biscuits and drinking tea:grinning:
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Loved Woolies their pick and mix was fantastic. They seemed to sell everything.
 
When the school summer holidays were approaching I would be kitted out from Woolworths
bumper Boots, jelly shoes, tee shirts, jeans and the obligatory snake belt
 
Ray T said:
I can't remember the branch of Woollies my mother took me to as a boy. Was there one in Ladypool Rd? I do remember the women at their tills stuffing pound notes and fivers into those strange capsules which were then whisked away to some mysterious place via a series of vacuum tubes. And I remember a favourite toy, which was the little yellow plastic chicken that laid little eggs when it was pressed down. It used to fascinate me!
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Woolworths at 132-136 Ladypool road, in 1968
I believe it was Branch No. 872

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mw0njm. said:
and good glue/cement
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Interestingly, there is a whole industry selling miscellaneous items for Airfix, Revell etc models. Specialist glues, fillers, sanding pads, paints, potions, lotions the lot. They even sell additional extra detailed parts made from resin or copper etched bits and bob that appeal to the modeler who wants precise detail.

These additions now often cost as much as the model if not more. Had Woolworth jumped on this gravy train, they would have increased their turnover immensely. The hobby craft stores have picked up a lot of this trade.
 
true mort,i buy a lot of 00 plastic kits that lt takes pence to produce by moulding machines :(.and sell for about 10 times that.. the glue is now rubbish it dont stick so i have a big pot of pipe chement,it is brill and a lot cheaper you can stick dozens of items with it. when a kid i used to buy plastic solders.cowboys and injuns etc. from wollies, dad being a caster and moulder would copy what i bought in aluminium.i had hundred of them, indians,army solders, roundheads romans,cowboys. all fighting one another.:grinning:
 
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