Farewell to Woolworths in Yeovil

[waddyrko82]

sad day. loved woolworths. strange tho im from yeovil but didnt see anyone in know lol

[Aqua3marine]

would be so much better with sad music :( still tragic though, seems like eons ago but it was only 3 months ago...

[wurzal43]

My late Aunty Dorothy worked for the old Woolies in Yeovil in the late 1920's and 1930's this store was badly damaged during an air raid in 1940. My late sister worked in the store in the 1980's and I worked there in the 1990's. I remember all the Easter Eggs coming in to the store room before Xmas!

[woodrawwood]

i go to Yeovil College and me and my mates went in Woolworths a lot so we were sad when it closed.

We have written a song about it to check it out click on my name

[kungfudude]

Can't afford to keep it open but someone can waste a few quid leaving the lights on day and night!

[sane2009]

There is nowt wrong with yeovil but the cafe was shit in that store

[english62]

Yeovil is the worst place i have EVER lived and i've lived ALOT of places

[jacksinclaircool]

damn it, the one in broadmeads is now closed.

NEXT: zavvi

[hannahdogs8]

gr8

miss it loads!!

the best shop eva!

R.I.P woolworths!

[warship821]

I do hope the staff can find a better job in a better town, it's the least they deserve after the indignity of working in Yeovil!

I live in Yeovil and trust me it's the worst dump in the U.K! As soon as I can find somewhere to live in another town I will never see Yoevil again!

[danielbutlerosim]

you obv haver never been to slough

[mattldg]

slough is shit whole no affence and then theres harrow

[danielbutlerosim]

dnt wury im nt offened. wen im old enough im on the first train out of there

[djgravitate]

Harrow's not as bad as Southall!

[kaleidoscope2006]

A terrible shame that such a once great store was reduced in December 2008 to having empty shelves and a general feeling of disarray. My sympathy to all the staff and that Woolworths never made it to it's 100th year here. I'll really miss having this store around to get just about anything. I never realised that Woolworth's was originally founded in 1878 in the USA, having always assumed it was totally British. So goodbye to 'Woolies', with thanks.

[egapnala65]

Was there ever a more ironic song to be playing on the sound system?

[ClubPenguinFan178]

Especially the "it's only just begun" bit.

[TumbleTower]

Although posted on 23 December 2008, was this actually filmed that day? The escalator to the first floor looks blocked off. Wast the upstairs actully closed, and only the ground floor open the day this film was made? My final ever visit to the Yeovil Woolworths store was on Friday 5 December. The upstairs was still open then, I went up the escalator and had my lunch at the cafe that day. It was busy that day, and one whole ground floor gondola was already almost bare.