Exact date the final Wilko store will close for good - see the full list of all 111 stores that will go

22 September 2023, 14:42 | Updated: 22 September 2023, 14:51

The final 111 Wilko stores will close on Sunday October 8
The final 111 Wilko stores will close on Sunday October 8. Picture: Alamy

By Asher McShane

Wilko is to shut the doors of its last remaining stores on Sunday October 8, the firm announced today

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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 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

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