Woolworths

Signs in the windows on Woolworths last day in Preston.

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Students from a Preston college are busy brushing up on their hair-styling skills - with their sights firmly set on International awards. The 16 trainees from Tuson College will compete against the North West's best at Blackpool next month in the regional final of a major competition. They are pictured above with their budding guinea pig models

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Sainsbury's 2014 Christmas advert - 1914.

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Ross Shaddick from Plymouth, Devon, with his Christmas lights which have finally gone out after 54 years.

My Woolworths fairy lights have FINALLY blown after 54 years of use

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This is the former Woolworth's building in Bank Hey Street

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I could go on forever about what made Preston in the 1990s great
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Jack Marshall

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The Fishergate outlet in the resort was among 163 shops which shut in 2016 after administrators failed to find a buyer for the retailer.

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Padiham was dealt a blow today after it was announced that The Original Factory Shop is to close

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An outside look of the former Woolworths in Mansfield.

Woolworths to make possible return to British high streets

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The former Woolworths department store now occupied by Next

Two of city's most prominent shops are put on the market

The new Worthington Brougham Furniture showroom will open in October in the historic Woolworths building on Market Street in Chorley

Former Woolworths store in Chorley gets a makeover

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The large display windows of Debenhams in 1991

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Naomi Moon

The main entrance to the Marks & Spencer store on Fishergate in Preston

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Stolen From Ivor was a hugely popular clothing shop in St George's Shopping Centre. The must-have accessory was a Stolen From Ivor carrier bag - did you carry one?

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Posters cover the windows telling of Woolworths' closing down sale in 2008

25 pictures of pick 'n' mix and more at Preston's Woolworths store

You can now take a 3D virtual tour of Woolworths as it was 30 years ago

The 3D video tour takes us back 30 years to a simpler time

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Wedding Bells for Woolworths

Wedding Bells for Woolworths by Elaine Everest: An enchanting mix of drama, ro...

Wedding Bells for Woolworths

Wedding Bells for Woolworths by Elaine Everest: An enchanting mix of drama, ro...

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Readers' letters - May 22

Woolworth

Could Woolworths be coming back to Lancashire's high streets?

Kylie Minogue

Not so emotional downloads

Carts, such as this one, were once used to sell milk but the times are changing says a reader. This picture is believed to depict Pickerings Farm which stood on the corner of Todd Lane North and Brownedge Road. Picture courtesy of Preston Digital Archive

Readers' letters - February 25

A summer with no work should be child's play

Counting the cost of high street collapses

BHS

11,000 jobs at risk as BHS goes into administration

Ethel Austin

High Street workers lose compensation battle

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