Memories: When Woolworths opened in Dumbarton Road in 1956
It’s always exciting when a big new store opens, and this was the choice on offer on the first day as Woolworth opened its Dumbarton Road store in Glasgow, the firm’s 944th shop nationwide at the time. The picture was taken in 1956.
Tony Benn, known back in 1959 as Anthony Wedgwood Benn, was always a controversial figure on the left of the Labour Party, and he was at the heart of the action when he attended this rally in Clydebank, held to protest at factory closures – it was said to be the biggest demo since the end of the war.
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