The Woolworths Museum

In and out the windows

For many years Woolworths bosses considered their stores' windows to be the most important display space of all. Great effort went into designing layouts and dressing the windows as often as twice a week. Our short video shows a few of the toys and leisure displays from the heyday in the 1930s. It's embedded using HTML5 and video.js. Enjoy!

 

Videography by 3d and 6d Pictures Ltd. for the Woolworths Museum. © Copyright 2002-2022, all rights reserved.

 

"Sell a toy, spread some joy", Frank W. Woolworth, Proprietor

 


Cinema content at a glance

Ranges:

 

The Good Ship Lollipop (Sweets)

 

Century of Toys

 

Easter Parade (Fashion)

 

The Last Noël (Xmas)

 

Video Launch

 

Advertising and Marketing:

 

First Commercial

 

The Wonder of Woolworth

 

Star Parade

 

Windows

 

Wannabeee (Wooly & Worth)

 

People:

 

1980s

 

1990s

 

The Noughties

 

Ugly Duckling store transformation 2003

 

Staff work for Kids First Charity

 

Wonders from Woolies

 

Our great grandparents' toys

 

It's magic

 

Character brands

 

Just window dressing

 

The Lion and Albert

 

Wartime Toys

 

1950s Toys

 

Mum & dad's toys

 

The race for space

 

Cool for School

 

Woolies by Woolies at Woolies

 

80s and 90s Toys

 

Wooly and Worth

 

Kids and Celebrations

 

Century of Toys Video

 

 

Bonus Items - The History of Chad Valley

Now owned by Argos / J. Sainsbury plc, Chad Valley was revived and developed by Woolworths over a 21 year period

 

Toys for Toffs, the early ranges

 

TV changes everything in the 1950s and 1960s