Co-operative Architecture 1945 - 1959 : Gateshead Co-operative Society :
From a very lavish production, printed of course by the CWS's own Printing Works at Reddish, is a description of the new flagship department store for the Gateshead Co-operative Society that was scheduled to open in 1959. The elevations and facade are very much of their day, quite 'Festival of Britain in style, with what appears to be the use of textured concrete panels to break up the massing.
The book describes the many new shops, stores, factories and offices for the CWS and the various Societies were designed by the CWS's own Architects Department in the day when the Society basically made and did everything its members could need.
Co-operative Architecture 1945 - 1959 : Gateshead Co-operative Society :
From a very lavish production, printed of course by the CWS's own Printing Works at Reddish, is a description of the new flagship department store for the Gateshead Co-operative Society that was scheduled to open in 1959. The elevations and facade are very much of their day, quite 'Festival of Britain in style, with what appears to be the use of textured concrete panels to break up the massing.
The book describes the many new shops, stores, factories and offices for the CWS and the various Societies were designed by the CWS's own Architects Department in the day when the Society basically made and did everything its members could need.