Following its Parents death a decade earlier....

[seamusuk]

The Institution of the UK High Street for just short of 100 years will be history by 5/1/09

http://latestnews.virginmedia.com/news/uk/2008/12/17/woolworths_to_close_next_month

 

[phillygrl]

I did not know Woolworths was still in business anywhere else in the world. I miss the US Woolworths stores, fondly known where I grew up as "the five and ten". Were they the UK branch of the old US Woolworths?