Woolworth Collection

Stevenage New Town
This pedestrianised shopping centre at Stevenage New Town, Hertfordshire, England was the first in England, opened in 1959. It was also the first designated New Town in 1946. Date: July 1966

Birmingham Bull Ring
The old Bull Ring Centre, a notorious symbol of post World War Two modernism, now demolished. Completed in 1964; Britains first multi-storey fully enclosed shopping centre

New York Skyline with Brooklyn Bridge
View across the East River toward the Brooklyn Bridge and the skyscrapers of Manhattan, New York

White Star to New York
Poster for the White Star Line to New York featuring the RMS Olympic (sister ship to the Britannic and Titanic) in New York harbour with the Woolworth Building in the background

Parks, City Hall and Buildings, New York
Parks, City Hall and Buildings. City Hall Park, City Hall and the Post Office, skyline beyond includes the Woolworth Building and the Singer Tower. Date: c. 1917

Birminghams Bull Ring Centre - 1960s
circa 1910s

Tesco Stores Ltd, The Modern Grocers
Tesco in its infancy: Tesco Stores Ltd, The Modern Grocers. Date: circa 1950s

Broadway, Downtown and the Entrance to the Harbour, New York
View from the top of the Woolworth Building, Manhattan, New York, USA - Broadway, Downtown and the Entrance to the Harbour. circa 1910s

Woolworth Building, New York, early 1900s

Woolworth Building, New York, USA

Woolworths store, possibly 1930s

Embassy 45rpm single record sleeve - Music For You, sold exclusively by F W Woolworth Date: 1950s

The Municipal Building and East River Bridges - New York
The Municipal Building and East River Bridges viewed from the Woolworth Building, New York City, USA. Date: 1913

Panoramic View of Lower Manhattan and Bay, New York City, USA. View from the top of the Woolworth Building. Date: circa 1910s

The Woolworth Building, 233 Broadway, New York, USA
The Woolworth Building, 233 Broadway, Manhattan, New York City, USA. Designed by architect Cass Gilbert and constructed between 1910 and 1912 - an early skyscraper

Record sleeve, Woolworth's Embassy 45rpm record Date: 1950s

High Street Tonbridge, Kentf
A recently opened Woolworths store dominates the High Street in Tonbridge, Kent. Date: circa 1935

A parking attendant writing out ticket, Middlesex
A parking attendant issuing a ticket in Hayes, Middlesex. Date: circa 1950s

Looking East from the Woolworth Building, showing Brooklyn and Manhattan - New York City, USA. Date: circa 1920

View of Grafton Street, Dublin, Ireland, with pedestrians and traffic. Date: circa 1910

Count & Countess Haugwitz-Reventlow at Monte Carlo Beach
Count and Countess Haugwitz-Reventlow, formerly Barbara Hutton, the Woolworth heiress, lunching beside the pool at Monte Carlo Beach on the French Riviera. Date: 1936

The Woolworth Building, New York City, USA. Designed by architect Cass Gilbert and located at 233 Broadway in Manhattan, New York City

View of the East River Bridges, New York, USA
View from the top of the Woolworth Building looking toward the East River Bridges (The Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan Bridge), New York, USA. circa 1910s

The Woolworth Building, New York, USA
The Woolworth Building, 233 Broadway, Manhattan, New York City, USA. Designed by architect Cass Gilbert and constructed between 1910 and 1912 - an early skyscraper

Woolworth Building by night, New York, USA. Date: 1913

Woolworth Building, New York, USA, The Cathedral of Commerce
The Woolworth Building, New York, USA - The Cathedral of Commerce. Date: 1913

Times Square, New York City, NY, USA Date: circa 1947

The Woolworth Building, USA - Above the Clouds
The Woolworth Building, New York City, USA - Above the Clouds. Date: circa 1907

The Woolworth Building, USA - The Cathedral of Commerce
The Woolworth Building, New York, USA - The Cathedral of Commerce. Date: circa 1907

Hardinge Street, Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa, with Torrs Hotel and Electricity House. Date: circa 1940

Longest lunch counter, F W Woolworth, Los Angeles, USA
The longest lunch counter in the world, at F W Woolworth, 431 South Broadway, Los Angeles, California, USA. One hundred yards long, and air conditioned. Date: circa 1930s

North Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware, USA
Looking south on North Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware, USA. Date: 1913

First Woolworth store, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
The first Woolworth store, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA, where items were sold for five and ten cents. It was opened by F W Woolworth on 21 June 1879. Date: late 19th century

New York panorama at Shepherds Bush, London
The realistic panorama of New York City at the Pink City (White City), Shepherds Bush, London, part of an Anglo-American exposition

Tobacconists shop in Chester, Cheshire
The House of Bewlay tobacconists shop in Eastgate Street, Chester, Cheshire, where paranormal activity was reported from 1968 onwards

White Star Line brochure
A White Star Line brochure advertising the Olympic and Titanic steamships, comparing their length to some of the tallest buildings in the world

Panorama of the east Hudson riverfont and docks, New York
Panorama, showing the East River riverfront and docks of New York 1911

Fire brigade attend Woolworth store in Manchester
People watch from a safe distance as the fire brigade attends a fire at a Woolworth store in Manchesters Piccadilly Gardens, where ten lives were lost on 8 May 1979. Date: 1979

Blackpool / Woolworths
Blackpool, Lancashire: Woolworths and the Tower Date: circa 1930

New York City - Playing card - Woolworth Building - 4 of Spades. Date: 1900

Getting a rise in the World 1912
Photograph of the tallest skyscraper (at the time) being built in New York by the Woolworth Company. Workman holding on with nothing but rope chains and without any safety equipment

Eighth Avenue, Homestead, Pennsylvania, USA
Eighth Avenue (looking west), Homestead, Pennsylvania, USA, with the Woolworth 5 and 10 Cent Store on the right. Date: 1911

North Main Street, Gloversville, New York State, USA. Date: circa 1910

Lincoln-Drexel Building, Lincoln Road, Miami, Florida, USA
The art deco style Lincoln-Drexel Building, on the corner of Lincoln Road and Drexel Avenue, Miami Beach, Florida, USA. Date: late 1930s

New type of escort vessel by G. H. Davis
A Woolworth Carrier: first details of the new type of escort vessel giving vital air cover to British convoys in mid-Atlantic during the Second World War. Date: 1943

The Woolworth Building, New York. It was built in 1913, and was the tallest building in the world between 1913 and 1930 at 241 meters tall. Date: C. 1913

Study for Woolworths private office in the Woolworth Building. Date between 1913 and 1924

Leys Avenue, Letchworth
A view of Leys Avenue in Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, with people out shopping and several parked bicycles

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