I hope it's ok to post this non railway link in here, but it's an idea for buildings on layouts. Up until 2008, most towns and cities had a Woolworths. Indeed, one of the links below shows the Cowdenbeath branch. My late dads cousin retired from there in 2002, at the age of 62, having started there at the age of 15! Her now deceased brother, who had a prosthetic arm, worked all his days in their Cupar branch, until he retired in 2004 at the age of 68. He died in 2019. I'm posting the links to show a selection of Woolies, to demonstrate the house style of the frontage of the buildings. Except those in shopping centres, Woolworths fronts were often purpose built, with two or three styles. The links show a variety of Woolworths, in case you decide to try and build a front yourself. Of course, a company based in Truro, which specialises in realistic kits to build for layouts, may decide to produce such a kit....... And if you look at the Darlington one, it has the classic 1970s to 1980s Woolworth letters, my favourite Woolworth lettering. Hopefully someone on here could recreate a classic Woolies, perhaps even with the lettering in the 1983 Darlington photo. https://wooliesbuildings.wordpress.com/2018/04/28/darlington-store-28/ https://wooliesbuildings.wordpress.com/2018/10/05/paisley-store-168/ https://wooliesbuildings.wordpress.com/2019/03/22/brighton-london-road-store-288/ https://wooliesbuildings.wordpress.com/2021/02/01/shanklin-woolworths-store-656/ https://wooliesbuildings.wordpress.com/2020/12/22/cowdenbeath-woolworth-store-642/ https://wooliesbuildings.wordpress.com/2018/09/10/ipswich-store-148/

Posted by Robert Clark at 2022-01-09 20:52:05 UTC