A file containing 5 photographs depicting the F W Woolworth and Co store on Soho Road, Handsworth. Known as Woolworths store number 299, this was the two-hundred and ninety-ninth branch of Woolworths to open in the British Isles, in 1928. In 1940 the store address was 210-212 Soho Road and these were probably the original premises; the store was later extended. The building was damaged by a bomb in 1942 and was rebuilt. The new store opened in October 1955 and was the first Woolworths to have a curtain wall. It closed in 1984.
This is part of the Series: FWW01/01 Woolworths Store Files Of Photographs Of Shops; within the Collection: FWW01 Woolworths Collection
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