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Wilko reveals dates for final store closures following collapse

The hardware and furnishings retailer fell into administration last month (Ben Birchall/PA)
The hardware and furnishings retailer fell into administration last month (Ben Birchall/PA)

Wilko is to shut the doors of its last remaining stores on Sunday October 8 as the collapse of the historic retailer comes to a close.

The hardware and furnishings retailer tumbled into administration last month after it came under pressure from weak consumer spending and debts to suppliers.

The retailer will shut its final 111 stores in early October as part of the final phase of closures, administrators for PwC said.

The Wilko brand will not disappear entirely from the UK high street after The Range agreed to buy Wilko’s brand, website and intellectual property, with plans to sell the acquired brand in its stores.

Wilko closure
The retailer came under pressure from weak consumer spending and debts to suppliers (Joe Giddens/PA)

Wilko was originally founded by James Kemsey Wilkinson in Leicester in 1930 and employed 12,500 workers before its collapse.

– The following stores will shut on Tuesday October 3:

Hounslow, Greater London


St Albans, Hertfordshire


Dunstable, Bedfordshire


Weston Favell, Northampton


Bristol


Lancaster, Lancashire


Leeds Trinity, West Yorkshire


Reading, Berkshire


Poole, Dorset


Lincoln, Lincolnshire


Halifax, West Yorkshire


Washington, Newcastle upon Tyne


Hitchin, Hertfordshire


Chatham, Kent


Southend, Essex


Metro Centre, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear


Epsom, Surrey


Cannon Park, Coventry, Warwickshire


Norwich, Norfolk


Preston, Lancashire


Canterbury, Kent


Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey


Carlisle, Cumbria


Barnsley, South Yorkshire


Kingswood, Bristol


Colchester, Essex


Ilford, Greater London


Maidstone, Kent


Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire

– The following stores will shut on Thursday October 5:

Bishop Stortford, Hertfordshire


Tottenham Hale, Greater London


Worthing, West Sussex


Romford, Greater London


Selly Oak, Birmingham


Wembley, London


Birstall, West Yorkshire


Uxbridge, Greater London


Burton, Staffordshire


Lee Circle, Leicester, Leicestershire


West Ealing, London


Blackburn, Lancaster


Bexleyheath, Greater London


The Beacon Eastbourne, East Sussex


Weymouth, Dorset


Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire


Beaumont Leys, Leicester, Leicestershire


Hinckley, Leicestershire


Livingston, Scotland


Chelmsford, Essex


Riverside Shopping Centre, Northampton, East Midlands


Sittingbourne, Kent


Stourbridge, West Midlands


Manchester, Greater Manchester


Hamilton, South Lanarkshire


Deepdale, Preston, Lancashire


Basingstoke, Hampshire


Clifton Moor, York, North Yorkshire


Burgess Hill, West Sussex


Castle Douglas, Dumfries and Galloway


Harrow, London


Tooting, London


Telford, Shropshire


Ipswich, Suffolk


St James Retail Park, Sheffield, South Yorkshire


Nottingham, Midlands


Cheltenham, Gloucestershire


Bulwell, Nottinghamshire


Abergavenny, Monmouthshire


Frenchgate Shopping Centre, Doncaster, South Yorkshire


Clifton, Bristol

– The following stores will shut on Sunday October 8:

Neath, Neath Port Talbot


Bromley, London


Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire


Cardiff, South Glamorgan


Selby, North Yorkshire


Arnold, Nottinghamshire


Portsmouth, Hampshire


Oswestry, Shropshire


Chester, Cheshire


Hucknall, Nottinghamshire


Ayr, South Ayrshire


Widnes, Cheshire


Horsham, West Sussex


Birkenhead, Merseyside


Kingston Centre, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire


Parkgate, Rotherham, South Yorkshire


Perry Barr, Birmingham, West Midlands


Castleford, West Yorkshire


Porthmadog, Caernarfonshire


Brighouse, West Yorkshire


Chelmsley Wood, West Midlands


Swansea, Wales


Sunderland, Tyne and Wear


Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire


Silverlink, Newcastle, Tyne and Wear


Chesterfield, Derbyshire


Sutton, Surrey


Derby, Derbyshire


Scarborough, North Yorkshire


Crystal Peaks, Sheffield, South Yorkshire


Plymouth, Devon


Ely, Cambridgeshire


Loughborough, Leicestershire


Liverpool, Merseyside


Stratford, London


Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear


Coventry, West Midlands


Sheffield, South Yorkshire


Exeter, Devon


Luton, Bedfordshire


Wood Green, London