Remembering the Thirties: The Eclectic Mix of products at Woolies
Beautiful people shopped at Woolies - where you could add that glam look for sixpence thanks to Outdoor Girl.
Forever blowing bubbles at Woolworths in the Thirties.
The price of threepence was 1¼p at the time, about five cents, equivalent to about £1 today.
Colleague suggestions of the next products that Woolworths buyers should try to get on the counters
for sixpence or less in the late 1930s, compiled from submissions to the staff magazine.
The above image is from A Sixpenny Romance,
celebrating a century of value at Woolworths by Paul Seaton
and appears courtesy of 3D and Pictures, a WWW Group Company.
A cup and saucer for sixpence at Woolworths. The ticket is typical of many of its day painting a vivid picture of Thirties life.
The price of threepence was 1¼p at the time, about five cents, equivalent to about £1 today.
Every aspiring film star needed a Drene Shampoo in the Thirties. Sixpence (2½p or 5 cents then,
about £2 or $3.40 today ) for a tiny container at Woolies.
Only at Woolworths could you possibly buy a Goldfish (alive) for sixpence on the counter next to
the one where you could buy a tin of pilchards for the same price!
Magic tricks were a smash hit at Woolworths, and suited the firm's low ticket price of sixpence
in the 1930s perfectly. Click for a larger, readable copy in a new window.
Gramaphone needles - sixpence from Woolworths in the 1930s.
From pans to pandemonium, Woolies were number one for the home in the Thirties.
A full page advertisement for the opening of a new store in London's
fashionable Oxford Street, W1, was placed in the Daily Mail in April 1932.
The ad. shows an ecletic selection of the firm's range of products,
the great majority of which were British made.
Click here to view a larger, legible copy in a new window, courtesy of
WoolworthsReunited dotcom, the folks who found jobs for 4,500 ex Woolies
colleagues in 2009 - three and a half miles of people stood shoulder-to-shoulder.
Liverpool University's students had a different take on the range at Woolies, in this great spoof advertisement from 1936.
But then Liverpool always was Britain's best University.
This page is dedicated to the memory of Frank W. Woolworth (1852-1919),
a man who believed that anything was possible.
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