As one shopper said, it was a day to pick the bones of a former big name in the High Street.

Queues built up inside the Bedminster branch of Woolworths as the last pieces of stock were sold off at bargain prices.

Some items were more attractive than others – there didn't seem many takers for a chocolate advent calendar – but children's clothes at pennies rather than pounds were popular with parents and grandparents.

The branch in East Street was one of the last to lock its doors for good as the latest wave of Woolworths store closures was completed.

Bedminster was joined by Clifton, Hartcliffe and Filton as the last in Bristol to shut for good on Saturday, leaving just Nailsea to bring the curtain down on a slice of retail history in the West tomorrow. Gone with them are more than 270 jobs.

In the past few days, the branches in Kingswood, Fishponds, Clevedon, Yate, Broadmead, Shirehampton and Weston-super-Mare have also closed, taking another 250 jobs from the area.

In Bedminster, staff and bosses were unable to comment on the closure as they busied themselves serving customers and arranging the stock.

Shelves at the back of the store were empty, with goods brought to the front of the premises to sell off – many marked at 70 per cent below their normal price.

Bottled drinks were priced at 10p, customers could buy 20 greetings cards for £1 and notices advertised fixtures and fittings that included shelves, filing cabinets and a £10 microwave oven.

Playing cards, DVDs, shoe laces and the odd pot of paint could also be snapped up.

For Sylvia Hill, it was a trip down memory lane as well as a shopping expedition to find gifts for her grandchildren.

Mrs Hill, 59, used to work as a sales assistant in the branch when she was a teenager.

She said: "I can remember the old wooden floors they had at the time and the section where the old vinyl records were sold.

"I was in charge of boots, shoes and what we called daps – plimsolls. I worked here for probably about two-and-a-half years. In those days we used to close on Wednesday afternoons as well as Sundays. It was a lot different then and it's very sad to see it closing now after such a long time."

When the branch in Nailsea shuts tomorrow, the last of 807 Woolworths shops will have closed across the UK, leaving 27,000 staff facing redundancy.

Many of the 200 branches that put the shutters up for the last time on Saturday had been given a one-day reprieve by administrators.

They were due to shut on Friday but Deloitte pushed the closures back a day to give them more time to clear stock.

Deloitte has held talks with other retailers to take on the leases of around 300 stores and hopes to sell off the Ladybird children's clothes and Chad Valley toys brands.