Huddersfield & District Co-operative Society - "See It Made" exhibition flyer, c1950
The Co-op still has many own brand products on its food shelves today but this leaflet is a reminder, not only of the many district Societies that made the movement up decades ago, but the fact that a much wider range of products were manufactured in a vast number of factories and production plants owned and operated by the Co-operative Wholesale Socity. The CWS's works spanned the UK and ranged from farms and estates, through food production works such as Crumpsall (Manchester) for biscuits, Irlam (Lancashire) for fats, Lowestoft (for canned products and fish), factories weaving cotton and woollen goods, corset making, hosiery as well as plants making paint, cycles, office equipment - even shoe polish and brushes at Pelaw, Hunslet (Leeds) and Wymondham (Norfolk). All that said I'm uncertain that they 'spun tobacco', even in the CWS tobacco and cigarette works in Manchester!
This leaflet has the feel of c1950 and plugs the fact that memebers owned, as they still do, the Societies they purchased from. Although advertising an exhibition under the auspices of the Huddersfield Society the leaflet is stamped "Hillhouse P F & I Society, Ltd.". This was typical of a small scale and very local Society, in this case in the suburbs of Huddersfield, and it went by the marvallous name of "Hillhouse Perseverance Friendly & Industrial Co-operative Society Ltd'. It appears to have traded independently until 1954 when it likely folded into the larger Huddersfield society. Amazingly a survivor of the name is till to be found on the gable of one of their stores in Fartown, Huddersfield.
Huddersfield & District Co-operative Society - "See It Made" exhibition flyer, c1950
The Co-op still has many own brand products on its food shelves today but this leaflet is a reminder, not only of the many district Societies that made the movement up decades ago, but the fact that a much wider range of products were manufactured in a vast number of factories and production plants owned and operated by the Co-operative Wholesale Socity. The CWS's works spanned the UK and ranged from farms and estates, through food production works such as Crumpsall (Manchester) for biscuits, Irlam (Lancashire) for fats, Lowestoft (for canned products and fish), factories weaving cotton and woollen goods, corset making, hosiery as well as plants making paint, cycles, office equipment - even shoe polish and brushes at Pelaw, Hunslet (Leeds) and Wymondham (Norfolk). All that said I'm uncertain that they 'spun tobacco', even in the CWS tobacco and cigarette works in Manchester!
This leaflet has the feel of c1950 and plugs the fact that memebers owned, as they still do, the Societies they purchased from. Although advertising an exhibition under the auspices of the Huddersfield Society the leaflet is stamped "Hillhouse P F & I Society, Ltd.". This was typical of a small scale and very local Society, in this case in the suburbs of Huddersfield, and it went by the marvallous name of "Hillhouse Perseverance Friendly & Industrial Co-operative Society Ltd'. It appears to have traded independently until 1954 when it likely folded into the larger Huddersfield society. Amazingly a survivor of the name is till to be found on the gable of one of their stores in Fartown, Huddersfield.