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Newspaper Article
City first choice for wonder of Woolies
2008
Overview
ONE national newspaper sneered when farmer's boy Frank Winfield Woolworth decided to open his first UK store in Liverpool and said it would soon fail. Frank Winfield Woolworth, who was born in Rodman, New York, in 1852, had looked at a dozen locations across the UK - including Manchester, Birmingham, Southampton and London's Hammersmith and Kensington - but Liverpool, then second city of the Empire, was his favourite. The bombshell news had been revealed in March 1982, with the ECHO beginning one report with the words of Helen Langley, the store's longest-serving assistant, who said: \"It's impossible to think of Liverpool without a Woolies.\"
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MGN Ltd
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