Today is the day that the final 200 Woolworths stores that remain open in the UK finally close their doors and the above picture shows the scene of Peterborough’s Woolworths this morning.

It’s almost surreal to see signs on a chain store using the phrase ‘Last Day Today’ but wandering inside you see how real it really is. Only the front half of the two floor store remains open to the public with what’s left of the stock scattered randomly, signs on the wall inform you how much you can buy the office chairs, fans and any other shop fittings for and the empty shelves you can see in the closed-off sections of the store show you the scale of events that led from a massive chain store becoming nothing more than a jumble sale in it’s last few days.

I know I described Woolworths as ‘an overpriced store with no clear purpose‘ but it’s still sad to see it leave our highstreets. My first album, cassette single and CD single more than likely all came from Woolworths. Growing up in Sussex it was the only music shop in Bexhill-on-sea so in many ways my love for music started in Woolworths.

All that remains now is to see what happens to the empty stores scattered in our highstreets

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