Co-operative Architecture 1945 - 1959 : Plymouth Co-operative Society
From a very lavish production, printed of course by the CWS's own Printing Works at Reddish, is a description of tthe flagship Plymouth City Centre departmental store for the city's Co-op Society. This was to replace the main branches lost during the WW2 Blitz and formed part of the comprehensive redevelopment of the city centre that subsequently took place.
I think this building was later passed on from the Co-op to form Derry's Store, that closed in c2010 and that the building has now being converted into the Plymouth Cross Hotel and student accomodation?
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 : Plymouth Co-operative Society
From a very lavish production, printed of course by the CWS's own Printing Works at Reddish, is a description of tthe flagship Plymouth City Centre departmental store for the city's Co-op Society. This was to replace the main branches lost during the WW2 Blitz and formed part of the comprehensive redevelopment of the city centre that subsequently took place.
I think this building was later passed on from the Co-op to form Derry's Store, that closed in c2010 and that the building has now being converted into the Plymouth Cross Hotel and student accomodation?
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.