WHO living in Warrington today can remember Sankey Street without Woolworths?
Probably no-one – because the Warrington branch was one of the early ones and Britain’s most famous high street 
brand name is almost 100-years-old.
But the first week of 2009 will see the Warrington store – and all others across the country – close, unless there is some last minute offer to keep them going.
It was always said that where you got a Woolworth store, you inevitably found a Marks and Spencer nearby.
The two giants complemented each other and seemed to like to be close together.
Certainly, in Warrington, before Sankey Street was redesigned as a pedestrian area, they were right opposite each other in the narrowest part of the street.
Even now, Marks is only a few yards away.
The last few weeks of “Woolies” in Warrington has seen people thronging in to seek out bargains.
Woolworths’ management are not the first and will almost certainly not be the last to observe that if trade had always been as good as when the closing-down sale started, they would not have been closing!
The question now remains: What will we get instead of Woolies? And how long will it be before we get it?
The lost wonder of Woolies
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Gary Skentelbery
Experienced journalist for more than 40 years. Managing Director of magazine publishing group with three in-house titles and on-line daily newspaper for Warrington. Experienced writer, photographer, PR consultant and media expert having written for local, regional and national newspapers. Specialties: PR, media, social networking, photographer, networking, advertising, sales, media crisis management. Chair of Warrington Healthwatch Director Warrington Chamber of Commerce Patron Tim Parry Johnathan Ball Foundation for Peace. Trustee Warrington Disability Partnership. Former Chairman of Warrington Town FC.
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I think the question is already answered – no doubt it will be yet another mobile phone or card shop
What a shame. Sankey Street will never be the same – unfortunately I haven’t seen it in 30 yrs. As a youngster, there was nothing more exciting to witness than two double-decker buses passing each other right outside ‘Woolies’.
I think it’s a bit big for a card shop or even a phone store and given the amount of other vacant properties, it might well stay empty for a good while.
i remeber my dad always got my easter eggs with my name on them from woolies , i think it was a case of the top executives taking to much in salaries from the company , my wifes first job was on the lollies counter of woolies , my dad used to clean the gas lamps outside woolies remember the gas lamp in the passageway under the clock what memories gee am i getting old better close before i start talking about helme bathie and bevan happy new year to everyone in the old town i am living out my days in surfers paradise were the sun shines down 364 days of the year ,,,, eddie carey