F. W. Woolworth & Co. Ltd., Freeman Street, Grimsby c1930.

F. W. Woolworth & Co. Ltd., Freeman Street, Grimsby c1930.

A ‘Three Pence and Six Pence Store. Nothing over Six Pence’.

A real photo postcard sent from Grimsby to Wantage in May 1930. No photographer or publisher named.

The first Woolworths store in the area opened on Cleethorpe Road, Grimsby in 1913. This Freeman Street branch opened in 1925 and closed in 1971. The Victoria Street branch closed in 2008 together with all UK Woolworths stores. (The name Woolworths is still used in other countries.)