Sir,

Having read Dawn's poem 'Woolies Signing Out' in your issue of January 9, I thought that she and many of your readers would be interested to read the following which comes from a cutting I have just discovered in an old scrapbook that I have inherited.

What a wonderful picture the article portrays.

I do wish all the Woolworth's staff good fortune in finding new jobs and thank them for looking after us so well over all the years. Woolworth's will be sorely missed.

To-day's opening of woolworth's stores

There was an unprecedented scene in High Street, Tenby, this (Friday) morning when a crowd, reminiscent of St. Margaret's Fair, gathered to witness the opening of Woolworth's red and gold store.

Police were on duty to control the traffic through the waiting throng which covered the road and both pavements. As the church clock chimed the hour of 10.30, the store doors were opened and a shopping rush, on a scale never seen before in Tenby, featured the hours that followed. The crowd surged into the store where special lines in baths, buckets, and enamel ware attracted the bargain hunters and it required an extraordinary effort to get anywhere near counters on which these lines were displayed.

Everyone commented upon the beautiful appearance of the store with its usual colour scheme of cream and gold and well lighted interior. Cash registers were ringing merrily as the crowd surged along.

Woolworth's had opened after years of rumour and only four months of actual construction work.

The crowd was by no means composed of Tenby shoppers. There were hundreds of strange faces. Buses from Whitland, Amroth, Manorbier and Narberth brought people in to witness the opening and visit the store.

The coming of Woolworth's has been talked about for months and the opening of the store will be remembered as the greatest of Tenby's shopping events.

Patricia Wall,

Pembroke.