Woolworth’s self-service store, Hawthorn Road, 1955
1955 · Hawthorn Road
Woolworths, Hawthorn Road. The self-service salesfloor at Woolworth’s, 232–234 Hawthorn Road, which opened on 28 October 1955.
Voices of Kingstanding reproduces this picture and information from the Woolworths Virtual Museum. It says the Hawthorn Road branch “was the first branch in the Midlands to operate the self-service principle”, although the Birmingham District was “highly resistant to instructions from Head Office” to introduce it, and shoppers missed the personal service at each counter.
The same source says the new owners modernised the Kingstanding store and reopened it with a new look on 19 May 1983, using it as a test bed after a computer model highlighted it as a “totally typical suburban store”.
About this place: Hawthorn Road shops
Local memories
What people who knew this place have said about it, in their own words. These are memories, not checked facts.
“Next door to Tranters was Littlewoods, then Woolworths”
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