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Adobe PDF downloadable and printable version of this page. Woolworth was a mass market retailer, which established many of the standards which are still used in retail today. Supplier partnerships, loss-leading, supply chain efficiencies and strict, consistent branding, all had their origins at Woolworths. In the early days the stores generated such riches that its Founder was able to put up the world’s tallest building and pay for it in cash.

Its shares were the gold standard of the markets, while to become a supplier was considered a licence to print money.

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There were no limits to the number of players on each side, for example, School House v Rest of the School. With so many on each side this was hard to do and sometimes games would last up to five days. The Close itself was merely three rough fields, and it was not until the late s that the ground was levelled. Sheep still grazed here until the early s. No written rules at this time! In , William Webb Ellis, a local boy in Town House, first ran with the ball, but this rule was not adopted straight away.

By , running with the ball was an accepted play, although the first written rules did not appear until These rules were written by the boys.