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©Russell Pritchard/Presseye 2nd February 2010
Co-operative Insurance Cup (semi-final) between Glentoran and Portadown at Windsor Park
Glentorans Keith Gillespie and Portadowns Ross Redman
Mandatory Credit - ©Russell Pritchard/Presseye
This is the cover of the booklet produced by the Educational Committee of West Calder Co-operative Society Limited to celebrate its Golden Jubilee on 13th June 1925. (1875-1925.)
West Calder Co-operative Society was opened for business in 1875 by workers from the local shale mines and oil works. In its first fifty years, the Society had opened various branches and details of these branches were given inside the booklet. The booklet was printed by the ' "Advertiser" Office, West Calder'.
West Calder became part of West Lothian Co-operative Society in 1969 which became part of Scottish Midland Co-operative Society Limited in 1982.
West Lothian Museums. http://www.westlothian.gov.uk/tourism/museumsgalleries/ums/information
If you would like more information about this object, please contact: museums@westlothian.gov.uk, quoting WLCMS2008.104.002.
A giant billboard covering the top floors of the CIS Tower is being unveiled today demonstrating The Co-operative’s support for the “I Love MCR” campaign. The campaign was launched by the Manchester business community in response the rioting in the city.
Peter Marks, Group Chief Executive said:
“We are extremely proud of our Manchester roots and the role we play in the commercial life of this great city. We have been here for almost 150 years and we intend to be here for the next 150.
“We were all shocked to see the disgraceful scenes of rioting and violence but the way everyone has rallied behind the “I love MCR” campaign is testimony to the real spirit of Manchester.
“We wanted everyone to know that we are backing the campaign and what better way to do it than erecting a poster that everyone can see for miles around.”
Martyn Hulme (far right) Managing Director Co-operative Estates, welcomes apprentices
The Co-operative and BAM Construction are working with Manchester Chamber of Commerce, Greater Manchester Employers Coalition and Jobcentre Plus with the aim of ensuring that 8 per cent of the total workforce will be apprentices. That will equate to 1 in 12 jobs on the building site at any one time.
More than 4,000 workers from 90 companies will be involved in the construction of the 16 storey head office, which is scheduled to be completed by August 2012.
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Federated installed five 24-foot large-diameter, low-speed fans (Big Ass Fans, bigassfans.com) in the 80,000-square-foot loading dock area back in 2007. The retail co-operative then began to measure its heat index in the pilot area, a measurement that relates the day’s temperature to the energy demands of the heating system. The index is expressed as Btu/ft2/degree day. Before the installation of the fans, the heat index was 4.49 Btu/ft2/degree day. By the end of 2008, the heat index had been reduced by 10% to 3.61 Btu/ft2/F.
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Tina O’Brien (well known for TV shows; Waterloo Road, Coronation Street) helps to make a difference to the lives of young people with a learning disability, joining The Co-operative’s employees, members and customers in Heaton Park (Manchester) to walk a mile for Mencap (and ENABLE Scotland), The Co-operative’s charity of the year for 2011.
Morris began experimenting with various crafts and designing furniture and interiors. He was personally involved in manufacture as well as design, which was to be the hallmark of the Arts and Crafts movement. Ruskin had argued that the separation of the intellectual act of design from the manual act of physical creation was both socially and aesthetically damaging; Morris further developed this idea, insisting that no work should be carried out in his workshops before he had personally mastered the appropriate techniques and materials, arguing that "without dignified, creative human occupation people became disconnected from life".The Arts and Crafts movement was an international movement in the decorative and fine arts that began in Britain and flourished in Europe and North America between about 1880 and 1920, emerging in Japan in the 1920s. It stood for traditional craftsmanship using simple forms, and often used medieval, romantic, or folk styles of decoration. It advocated economic and social reform and was essentially anti-industrial.It had a strong influence on the arts in Europe until it was displaced by Modernism in the 1930s, and its influence continued among craft makers, designers, and town planners long afterwards.The term was first used by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson at a meeting of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society in 1887,although the principles and style on which it was based had been developing in England for at least twenty years. It was inspired by the ideas of architect Augustus Pugin, writer John Ruskin, and designer William Morris.The movement developed earliest and most fully in the British Isles,[4] and spread across the British Empire and to the rest of Europe and North America.[8] It was largely a reaction against the perceived impoverished state of the decorative arts at the time and the conditions in which they were produced.The Arts and Crafts movement emerged from the attempt to reform design and decoration in mid 19th century Britain. It was a reaction against a perceived decline in standards that the reformers associated with machinery and factory production. Their critique was sharpened by the items they saw in the Great Exhibition of 1851, which they considered to be excessively ornate, artificial and ignorant of the qualities of the materials used.William Morris advocated production by traditional craft methods but was inconsistent in his view of what place machinery should play. At one point he said that production by machinery was "altogether an evil",[9] but he was willing to use manufacturers able to work to his standards with the aid of machinery; and he said that, in a "true society", where neither luxuries nor cheap trash were made, machinery could be improved and used to reduce the hours of labour.[26] Fiona MacCarthy says that "unlike later zealots like Gandhi, William Morris had no practical objections to the use of machinery per se so long as the machines produced the quality he needed." Morris's followers also had subtly differing views or changed their minds over time. C.R.Ashbee, for example, a central figure in the Arts and Crafts Movement, shared Morris's ambivalence. At the time of his Guild of Handicraft, initiated in 1888, he said, "We do not reject the machine, we welcome it. But we would desire to see it mastered." After unsuccessfully pitting his Guild and School of Handicraft guild against modern methods of manufacture, he acknowledged that "Modern civilization rests on machinery",but he continued to criticize the deleterious effects of what he called "mechanism", saying that "the production of certain mechanical commodities is as bad for the national health as is the production of slave-grown cane or child-sweated wares." The art historian Nikolaus Pevsner has said that exhibits in the Great Exhibition showed "ignorance of that basic need in creating patterns, the integrity of the surface" and "vulgarity in detail".[9] Design reform began with the organisers of the Exhibition itself, Henry Cole (1808–1882), Owen Jones (1809–1874), Matthew Digby Wyatt (1820–1877) and Richard Redgrave (1804–1888),[10] who deprecated excessive ornament and impractical and badly made things.[11] The organisers were "unanimous in their condemnation of the exhibits."[12] Owen Jones, for example, complained that "the architect, the upholsterer, the paper-stainer, the weaver, the calico-printer, and the potter" produce "in art novelty without beauty, or beauty without intelligence."[12] From these criticisms of the contemporary state of manufactured goods emerged several publications which set out what the writers considered to be the correct principles of design. Richard Redgrave's Supplementary Report on Design (1852) analysed the principles of design and ornament and pleaded for "more logic in the application of decoration."[11] Other works followed in a similar vein: Wyatt's Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century (1853), Gottfried Semper's Wissenschaft, Industrie und Kunst ("Science, Industry and Art") (1852), Ralph Wornum's Analysis of Ornament (1856), Redgrave's Manual of Design (1876) and Jones's Grammar of Ornament (1856).[11] The Grammar of Ornament was particularly influential, liberally distributed as a student prize and running into nine reprints by 1910. Jones declared that "Ornament ... must be secondary to the thing decorated", that there must be "fitness in the ornament to the thing ornamented", and that wallpapers and carpets must not have any patterns "suggestive of anything but a level or plain". Where a fabric or wallpaper in the Great Exhibition might be decorated with a natural motif made to look as real as possible, these writers advocated flat and simplified natural motifs. Redgrave insisted that "style" demanded sound construction before ornamentation, and a proper awareness of the quality of materials used. "Utility must have precedence over ornamentation."The Nature of Gothic by John Ruskin, printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press in 1892 in his Golden Type inspired by the 15th century printer Nicolas Jenson. This chapter from The Stones of Venice was a sort of manifesto for the Arts and Crafts movement.However, the design reformers of the mid 19th century did not go as far as the designers of the Arts and Crafts Movement: they were more concerned with ornamentation than construction, they had an incomplete understanding of methods of manufacture,[14] and they did not criticise industrial methods as such. By contrast, the Arts and Crafts movement was as much a movement of social reform as design reform and its leading practitioners did not separate the two.The Arts and Crafts philosophy derived in large measure from John Ruskin's social criticism, which related the moral and social health of a nation to the qualities of its architecture and to the nature of work. Ruskin (1819–1900) considered the sort of mechanized production and division of labour that had been created in the industrial revolution to be "servile labour" and he thought that a healthy and moral society required independent workers who designed the things they made. His followers favoured craft production over industrial manufacture and were concerned about the loss of traditional skills, but they were arguably more troubled by effects of the factory system than by machinery itself[17] and William Morris's idea of "handicraft" was essentially work without any division of labour rather than work without any sort of machinery.William Morris (1834–1896), the towering figure in late 19th century design, was the main influence on the Arts and Crafts movement. The aesthetic and social vision of the Arts and Crafts movement derived from ideas he developed in the 1850s with a group of students at the University of Oxford, who combined a love of Romantic literature with a commitment to social reform.[19] By 1855 they had discovered Ruskin and, believing there to be a contrast between the barbarity of contemporary art and the painters preceding Raphael (1483-1530), they formed themselves into the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood to pursue their artistic aims. The medievalism of Mallory's Morte d'Arthur set the standard for their early style.In Edward Burne-Jones' words, they intended to "wage Holy warfare against the age". the artist should be a craftsman-designer working by hand[9] and advocated a society of free craftspeople, which he believed had existed during the Middle Ages. "Because craftsmen took pleasure in their work", he wrote, "the Middle Ages was a period of greatness in the art of the common people. ... The treasures in our museums now are only the common utensils used in households of that age, when hundreds of medieval churches - each one a masterpiece - were built by unsophisticated peasants."Medieval art was the model for much Arts and Crafts design and medieval life, before capitalism and the factory system, was idealised by the movement.the division of labour on which modern industry depended was undesirable, but not all Arts and Crafts artists carried out every stage in the making of goods themselves, and it was only in the twentieth century that that became an essential part of the definition of craftsmanship. The founders of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society did not insist that the designer should also be the maker. Peter Floud, writing in the 1950s, said that "The founders of the Society ... never executed their own designs, but invariably turned them over to commercial firms."[31] The idea that the designer should be the maker and the maker the designer derived "not from Morris or early Arts and Crafts teaching, but rather from the second-generation elaboration doctrine worked out in the first decade of [the twentieth] century by men such as W. R. Lethaby".Morris's designs quickly became popular, attracting interest when his company's work was exhibited at the 1862 International Exhibition. Much of Morris & Co's early work was for churches and Morris won important interior design commissions at St James's Palace and the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert Museum). Later his work became popular with the middle and upper classes, despite his wish to create a democratic art, and by the end of the 19th century, Arts and Crafts design in houses and domestic interiors was the dominant style in Britain, copied in products made by conventional industrial methods. The spread of Arts and Crafts ideas during the late 19th and early 20th centuries resulted in the establishment of many associations and craft communities, although Morris had little to do with them because of his preoccupation with socialism at the time. A hundred and thirty Arts and Crafts organisations were formed in Britain, most between 1895 and 1905.In 1881, Eglantyne Louisa Jebb, Mary Fraser Tytler and others initiated the Home Arts and Industries Association to encourage the working classes, especially those in rural areas, to take up handicrafts under supervision, not for profit, but in order to provide them with useful occupations and to improve their taste. By 1889 it had 450 classes, 1,000 teachers and 5,000 students.In 1882, architect A.H.Mackmurdo formed the Century Guild, a partnership of designers including Selwyn Image, Herbert Horne, Clement Heaton and Benjamin Creswick.[38][39]
In 1884, the Art Workers Guild was initiated by five young architects, William Lethaby, Edward Prior, Ernest Newton, Mervyn Macartney and Gerald C. Horsley, with the goal of bringing together fine and applied arts and raising the status of the latter. It was directed originally by George Blackall Simonds. By 1890 the Guild had 150 members, representing the increasing number of practitioners of the Arts and Crafts style.[40] It still exists.
The London department store Liberty & Co., founded in 1875, was a prominent retailer of goods in the style and of the "artistic dress" favoured by followers of the Arts and Crafts movement.In 1887 the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, which gave its name to the movement, was formed with Walter Crane as president, holding its first exhibition in the New Gallery, London, in November 1888.[41] It was the first show of contemporary decorative arts in London since the Grosvenor Gallery's Winter Exhibition of 1881.[42] Morris & Co. was well represented in the exhibition with furniture, fabrics, carpets and embroideries. Edward Burne-Jones observed, "here for the first time one can measure a bit the change that has happened in the last twenty years". The society still exists as the Society of Designer Craftsmen.In 1888, C.R.Ashbee, a major late practitioner of the style in England, founded the Guild and School of Handicraft in the East End of London. The guild was a craft co-operative modelled on the medieval guilds and intended to give working men satisfaction in their craftsmanship. Skilled craftsmen, working on the principles of Ruskin and Morris, were to produce hand-crafted goods and manage a school for apprentices. The idea was greeted with enthusiasm by almost everyone except Morris, who was by now involved with promoting socialism and thought Ashbee's scheme trivial. From 1888 to 1902 the guild prospered, employing about 50 men. In 1902 Ashbee relocated the guild out of London to begin an experimental community in Chipping Campden in the Cotswolds. The guild's work is characterized by plain surfaces of hammered silver, flowing wirework and colored stones in simple settings. Ashbee designed jewellery and silver tableware. The guild flourished at Chipping Camden but did not prosper and was liquidated in 1908. Some craftsmen stayed, contributing to the tradition of modern craftsmanship in the area.Charles Francis Annesley Voysey (1857–1941) was an Arts and Crafts architect who also designed fabrics, tiles, ceramics, furniture and metalwork. His style combined simplicity with sophistication. His wallpapers and textiles, featuring stylised bird and plant forms in bold outlines with flat colors, were used widely.Morris's thought influenced the distributism of G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc.By the end of the nineteenth century, Arts and Crafts ideals had influenced architecture, painting, sculpture, graphics, illustration, book making and photography, domestic design and the decorative arts, including furniture and woodwork, stained glass,[48] leatherwork, lacemaking, embroidery, rug making and weaving, jewelry and metalwork, enameling and ceramics.[49] By 1910, there was a fashion for "Arts and Crafts" and all things hand-made and a proliferation of amateur handicrafts of variable quality.The Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society held eleven exhibitions between 1888 and 1916. By the outbreak of war in 1914 it was in decline and faced a crisis. Its 1912 exhibition had been a financial failure.[51] While designers in continental Europe were making innovations in design and alliances with industry through initiatives such as the Deutsche Werkbund and new initiatives were being taken in Britain by the Omega Workshops and the Design in Industries Association, the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, now under the control of an old guard, was withdrawing from commerce and collaboration with manufacturers into purist handwork and what Tania Harrod describes as "decommoditisation" Its rejection of a commercial role has been seen as a turning point in its fortunes.[51] Nikolaus Pevsner in his book Pioneers of Modern Design presents the Arts and Crafts Movement as design radicals who influenced the modern movement, but failed to change and were eventually superseded by it.
Open plan office space
The Co-operative Group has received planning permission from Manchester City Council to build its new head office in Manchester. For more information go to www.co-operative.coop/newheadoffice
The Co-operative Group has revealed the first images of how the central Manchester NOMA development could appear upon completion in 10 - 15 years time.
Winning entries from an international architecture competition have been included in the most up to date model to show how the later phases of the project could be designed. There are 8 active projects already under way as part of NOMA and these new images are the first time that these have all been shown together with preferred designs for future phases. The scheme will transform the 20-acres site around Victoria Station in to a vibrant new place to live, work and shop, as well as promising a wide range of recreational activities.
NOMA will be built at a cost of £800m, the first phase of which is The Co-operative Group’s new head office, which is scheduled for completion in October 2012.
Tiny baby snail, so small its shell is almost transparent. It's nice photographing creatures that don't take off the moment you try to get close to them! 🐌 181/365.
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 huge London Co-operative Society in Hounslow that opened in 1958. The building that I suspect was at the eastern end of Staines Road has now I think been demolished. What seems to have been of especially interest was the "Starlight Room" restaurant pictured here with some amazing internal decorative features and I so hope they were saved but I strongly doubt it.
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.
Detail of the Birmingham Co-op advert at the rear of High Street (facing the Bull Ring), the Come Co-operative shopping slogan was first used in the early 1960s and this sign lasted until the early 1980s (it had red illuminated lettering that flashed on at off night!). Picture taken probably very late 1960s/early 1970s (a larger version is in my other pictures)
Queensland Times
4 December 1954
New plant costing £10,000 has been Installed at the Booval factory of the Queensland Farmers' Co-operative Association Ltd. to improve the quality of butter from cream supplied by dairy farmers around Ipswich. At an Informal function at the Booval factory last night, representatives of the British firm which constructed the plant explained Its workings.
A photonegative with the caption "Plasterers Union June 1964" probably shows members of Operative Plasterers and Cement Masons Union Local 96 in Washington, D.C. observing their 100th anniversary.
The union was one of the more progressive building trades unions supporting the eight-hour day movement in the 19th Century and supporting the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
The 1964 photograph of an integrated unit stands out among the building trades unions in the area, some of whom bitterly resisted bringing on black and other workers of color as apprentices, even long after the non-discrimination laws in employment were passed..
The other local union affiliated with the International Plasterers’ nion was Local 891 that historically had done cement finishing such as foundations, sidewalk and driveways. Local 96 was the plasterers’ union that finished interior walls and applied stucco.
Local 96 traced its history back to the founding of the national union in 1864 during the Civil War.
“Its purpose was to regulate, standardize and promulgate the different scales of wages and working conditions. to establish a traveling card system, to institute apprentice training and regulations on a standard basis and to acquaint local unions with the names of unworthy members who had to be disciplined or otherwise penalized as well as the names of incompetent applicants for membership,” according to the union.
As plasterers’ work began to decline in the latter part of the 20th Century due to the introduction of drywall, Local 96 was merged into Local 891 in the Washington, D.C. area.
In its progressive tradition, the union made a concerted effort to increase minority employment in the construction crafts through apprenticeship training. Young black and Hispanics men and women were brought into the apprentice programs, opening the doors to jobs on construction sites across the nation, according to the union.
The local plasterers’ union also partners with the Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO Community Services Agency in its Building Futures Program providing young people an introduction to basic hands-on-skills to enable them to better succeed in craft union apprenticeship programs.
The union has continued its progressive tradition and elected a black woman, Mary Battle, as business manager in 2011. She became one of the few women in the construction industry to head a craft union and perhaps the first to do so in the Washington, D.C. area..
Local 891 continues to operate out of their offices on Kenilworth Avenue NE with a little over 500 members, most of whom are cement masons.
A small number of specialty plasterers continue the craft, sometimes working under big contracts during the renovation of museums, federal buildings or other historic structures in the greater Washington, D.C. area.
For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHsmJY2nCs
Photo by Scurlock Studios. The image is. courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History: Archives Center
The Co-operative Group has revealed the first images of how the central Manchester NOMA development could appear upon completion in 10 - 15 years time.
Winning entries from an international architecture competition have been included in the most up to date model to show how the later phases of the project could be designed. There are 8 active projects already under way as part of NOMA and these new images are the first time that these have all been shown together with preferred designs for future phases. The scheme will transform the 20-acres site around Victoria Station in to a vibrant new place to live, work and shop, as well as promising a wide range of recreational activities.
NOMA will be built at a cost of £800m, the first phase of which is The Co-operative Group’s new head office, which is scheduled for completion in October 2012.
The Co-operative Group has revealed the first images of how the central Manchester NOMA development could appear upon completion in 10 - 15 years time.
Winning entries from an international architecture competition have been included in the most up to date model to show how the later phases of the project could be designed. There are 8 active projects already under way as part of NOMA and these new images are the first time that these have all been shown together with preferred designs for future phases. The scheme will transform the 20-acres site around Victoria Station in to a vibrant new place to live, work and shop, as well as promising a wide range of recreational activities.
NOMA will be built at a cost of £800m, the first phase of which is The Co-operative Group’s new head office, which is scheduled for completion in October 2012.
Former branch of Chelmsford Star Co-operative Society - closed c 1984. this store must date from the late 1950s , because the original address was 50 Writtle road, some doors away, rather than 58 here. No 50 is marked by the post box outside
A little further along, towards Waterhouse Street , at No 38 was the Arc cafe, run by Mrs B. F. Muir in the 1950s. It wa so named owing to the promixity, and the source of much of its trade, one imagines, to the huge late victorian Arc works of Colonel Crompton, later Crompton Parkinson, later still Marconi Radar. Crompton had produced many improvements to Arc Lamps although a major earlier pioneer had been William Edwards Staite [1809 - 1854] who died on holiday in Normandy, but is buried in Wallasey. [a forgotten pioneer]
The post office in the mid 50s was formerly at no 32, now Kelson premises on the eastern corner of Waterhouse Street. postmaster was William E Bedwell.
However, 50 Writtle Road, is also known as a post office. Perhaps it became one when the Star Co-operative Society moved into its new premises above.
From the Bristol Mercury - more about the forgotten Staite...
25 May 1830
May 18 [1830, marriage] at St Augustine's church, Mr William Edward Staite, son of Mr
John Staite of Stoke's Croft Brewery, to Mary, daughter of Mr John Webb,
iron-merchant of this city and also ...
21 April 1838
April 11, at Layton, Essex, Mrs W.E. Staite, of a daughter
the daughter was Agnes Charlotte Staite other children were mary, helen and George (1840) His wife Mary Staite died in Wirral in 1894. (by then Living in Ashton, Cheshire)
Staite lost the bulk of his capital when the
Patent Electric Light Company, a supplier of chemical batteries in which he had a large
investment, failed. with his death, the initiative passed to the French. A forgotten pioneer.
The fine sleek Somerfield Supermarket in Lower Clapton Road, E5. The rather subdued exterior is due to it being in the middle of a conservation area, surrounded by some of the finest Georgian and Edwardian buildings in Hackney. Previously , this site was a long established drapery department store called SPOKES, prop Henry Spokes, who was born in Kings Sutton near Banbury in Northants in 1869.,extending along the street. Spokes apparently operated one of the Cash Cup Railway systems for payments sent to a central till. The rather grubby white colour doesn't seemt to work, though. Perod mosaic tiles on the former bookmakers shop to the right.
@bellend_tweak reckons that OTV had a second-hand TV store here. Needs checking from directories.
Henry Spokes' father, John Spokes, was a farmer of 150 acres and miller at Twyford Mill, employing 5 men and 5 boys in 1881. His eldest son, Stephen continued as miller and the younger Henry came to Londonwith his one year older sister Louisa to make his fortune....
Closed by the Co-operative on 28 June 2012 not having been rebranded.
Subsequently re-opered as a branch of J. Sainsbury
The Co-operative has operated from this part of Manchester for nearly 150 years, building and adapting as needed.
The Co-operative Group has received planning permission from Manchester City Council to build its new head office in Manchester.
The new building, which will be constructed on land on Miller Street, opposite the Co-operative Insurance tower, will serve as the head office for The Co-operative Group, the UK’s largest mutual retailer.
Watch a virtual tour of The Co-operative Group’s new head office www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcHGVv1bJTU
The Co-operative Group has received planning permission from Manchester City Council to build its new head office in Manchester.
The new building, which will be constructed on land on Miller Street, opposite the Co-operative Insurance tower, will serve as the head office for The Co-operative Group, the UK’s largest mutual retailer.
Watch a virtual tour of The Co-operative Group’s new head office www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcHGVv1bJTU
LOG PUNT ‘KING EDWARD VII'
Report prepared by Alan Wright and Chris Borough, members of the Great Lakes Historical Co-Operative Society Ltd.
Other log punt stories are contained in the Album Log Punts
Images of the log punt King Edward VII are in the album King Edward VII
NOTE: The original image has been removed as ID uncertain
The log punt King Edward VII, known to all on the river as the ‘King’, was built by Henry Miles Breckenridge for his father, John Breckenridge at Failford – she was launched on 18th April 1902. She was 101 feet in length, 22 feet in breadth, depth of hold 4ft 6in and drawing an incredibly low 2 feet of water when fully loaded. Power was supplied by a 15hp steam engine, driving a single 10 feet wide by 8 feet high stern paddle wheel.
The ‘King’ operated on the Wallamba, Coolongolook, and Wang Wauk Rivers for around a decade, carting logs to the mill at Failford and delivering sawn timber to Tuncurry for loading onto awaiting ships.
In this period she was fitted with a derrick for loading rock, and with the construction of the Tuncurry/Taree road, was used to transfer gravel downstream to Tuncurry.
The ‘King’ then was towed north to Breckenridge’s timber mill at Kendall, working on the Camden Haven.
Launch at Failford
On Saturday last [26th April 1902] Mr. John Breckenridge, J.P., launched from his yards at Failford a steam lighter, built for the purpose of, bringing logs to the Failford mill. Her dimensions are: — Length, 101 feet; 22 feet beam; and 4 feet 6 inches depth of hold. She is built on the diagonal principle, and trussed fore and aft, to prevent her bending or getting out of shape. Her planking on the sides is 2 inches thick, on two thicknesses 1½ inch diagonals, while her bottom is 2 inches thick, and her deck 3 inches, the two latter portions being, constructed of [New Zealand] kauri. The steamer's machinery is being made by Messrs. J. and A. Taylor, engineers, Townhead Works, Ayr, Scotland. She will be supplied with a pair of high pressure horizontal engines of 30 horse-power nominal, and her boiler will be tested by cold water to 200 lbs. pressure. The vessel is now waiting for her machinery, which is expected to arrive in about three weeks' or a month's time. The new steamer was all ready for launching at a quarter past twelve o'clock when, the triggers were knocked out, and Miss Minnie Breckenridge, youngest daughter of Mr. J. Breckenridge, broke the bottle, and christened the new ship "King Edward VII.," as she glided into her natural element without a hitch. There was no gathering of guests at the launching, but we understand that there will be a public function when the steamer makes' her trial trip, when her enterprising- and generous owner will in all probability give an excursion. The Manning River Times - Wednesday 30 April 1902
Excursion to Coomba
Following a successful trial run in September 1902, John Breckenridge provided the vessel for an excursion to Coomba: “Mr. Breckenridge's excursion in the King Edward VII to Coomba, on Saturday last, was a great success, about 160 persons availing themselves of the outing. The "King" left Failford at 8 a.m., and after taking in a number of the Forster folks at the cutting [known as the stone cut], reached Coomba on Wallis Lake at about 11 o'clock. Lunch was then served to all on board, after which games were indulged in till about 4 o'clock, when the King steamed homeward. All on board seemed to thoroughly enjoy themselves, and no doubt will long remember Mr. Breckenridge's kindness.” The Manning River Times - Wednesday 5 November 1902
Transport to the Annual Cape Hawke Regatta
John Breckenridge, along with other sawmillers, commonly made their log punts available for people attending the Annual Cape Hawke Regatta. The first record that positively identified as the attendance King Edward VII was in early 1907. “The following conveyances were used: — Messrs. Wright and McLaren's punt from Tuncurry; Messrs. J. and T. Miles' punt from Forster; Mr. J. Breckenridge's " King Edward VII from Failford ; Messrs. Smith and Everingham's drogher " Victory" from Nabiac ; Messrs. Goodlet and Smith's punt from Coolongolook; and the lobster boat Thistle; besides numerous oil launches and pulling boats.” The Manning River Times - Sat 5 Jan 1907.
Combined Schools Excursion and Picnic
“Friday, the 15th October [1908], was quite a gala day for young and old on the Wallamba when the Failford, Lower Wallamba and Darawank Schools combined in arranging an excursion and picnic for the children. Early on that bright morning children, parents and friends were observable coming from all points of the compass, wending their various ways to Failford wharf. Ladies with baskets and hampers containing the necessaries for diminishing and appeasing abnormal appetites which are created by an outing of this particular character. On arrival at the wharf it was noticed that the steam punt "King Edward VII," which had been gratuitously placed at the pleasure seeker's disposal by Mr. John Breckenridge, was gaily adorned with bunting, while a commodious awning had been erected on board as a safeguard against sun, wind and rain. A start was made with something like 200 oldsters and youngsters, and en-route the pupils, parents and friends of the Lower Wallamba and Darawank schools were called for. Now the seating accommodation was taxed to the utmost as nearly 300 souls were on board. All were on pleasure bent with the one desire of making the day thoroughly enjoyable. The course now lay for Regatta Island which had been selected as the rendezvous, and here a landing was effected and fun began in earnest. Though the trip by water was enjoyable — passing en-route islands, islets, shoals, and oyster beds with groves of cabbage palms in the background, and various kinds of aquatic birds disporting themselves on the placid waters of the lakes, or hurrying to safer distance; yet the limits were somewhat circumscribed, and the buoyant feelings had full vent when the landing was made on the ideal pleasure grounds.” The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer - Saturday 7 November 1908.
Breckenridge sawmill at Kendall
In 1906 John Breckenridge decided to establish a sawmill at Kendall and sent his son, Henry Miles Breckenridge, to construct and commence operating the mill. He was joined shortly after by his brothers Thomas Miles Breckenridge and Forster Breckenridge. Thomas left Kendall around 1911 and his two brothers continued to manage the operation. Early in the operation, the log punt St Olive was constructed; King Edward VII was taken to Kendall circa 1909.
It would appear that the scale of operation at Kendall was decreasing as, in October 1921, the Macleay River Co-operative Steamship Company Ltd was reported to have purchased the King Edward VII to replace the Rescue that had foundered.
The mill at Kendall was burned down in 1926; the St. Olive was taken down to Tuncurry and was purchased by Porter’s sawmill.
King Edward VII commences operation on the Macleay
The King Edward VII was used on the river as a drogher, transporting goods along the river from Greenhill to meet ships including the Kinchela and s.s Douglas Mawson. In 1922 she was valued at £1415/13/6. She operated for a short period before The Macleay River Co-operative Steamship Company Ltd. announced it was in voluntary liquidation. The liquidator advised shareholders that he had sold the two vessels, the King Edward VII and the s.s. Kinchela to the North Coast Steam Navigation Company for £12,507/19/6.
Sad end of the King Edward VII
Three years after she was bought by the N.C.S.N.C. she was being slipped for repairs and maintenance when she collapsed. The reports were brief. DROGHER DAMAGED.
“While the drogher "King Edward VII" was being hauled on to the slip for repairs on Tuesday afternoon [10th February 1925] the stern portion broke off and dropped into the stream.” Macleay Argus (Kempsey, NSW) - Fri 13 Feb 1925. The wreck was advertised for sale in late February but no record of the sale has been found.
Image Source: Great Lakes Museum, Tuncurry NSW (image PN 001005)
Acknowledgements: Information provided by the Macleay Valley Historical Society much appreciated.
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The Co-operative Group has revealed the first images of how the central Manchester NOMA development could appear upon completion in 10 - 15 years time.
Winning entries from an international architecture competition have been included in the most up to date model to show how the later phases of the project could be designed. There are 8 active projects already under way as part of NOMA and these new images are the first time that these have all been shown together with preferred designs for future phases. The scheme will transform the 20-acres site around Victoria Station in to a vibrant new place to live, work and shop, as well as promising a wide range of recreational activities.
NOMA will be built at a cost of £800m, the first phase of which is The Co-operative Group’s new head office, which is scheduled for completion in October 2012.
The Co-operative Group has revealed the first images of how the central Manchester NOMA development could appear upon completion in 10 - 15 years time.
Winning entries from an international architecture competition have been included in the most up to date model to show how the later phases of the project could be designed. There are 8 active projects already under way as part of NOMA and these new images are the first time that these have all been shown together with preferred designs for future phases. The scheme will transform the 20-acres site around Victoria Station in to a vibrant new place to live, work and shop, as well as promising a wide range of recreational activities.
NOMA will be built at a cost of £800m, the first phase of which is The Co-operative Group’s new head office, which is scheduled for completion in October 2012.
Title: Mayor E. O. Fanjoy put everything he had into smashing a champagne bottle at the topping off ceremony of the St. Thomas-Elgin Builders' Co-Operative apartment building on Talbot Street West in January 1969. Shown with Mayor Fanjoy are City of St. Thomas Industrial Commissioner W.L. "Shine" Palmer and property developer and builder (later St. Thomas Mayor) Doug Tarry.
Creator(s): St. Thomas Times-Journal
Bygone Days Publication Date: January 23, 2013
Original Publication Date: January 22, 1969
Reference No.: C9 Sh4 B6 F10 10a
Credit: Elgin County Archives, St. Thomas Times-Journal fonds
The Co-operative Group has revealed the first images of how the central Manchester NOMA development could appear upon completion in 10 - 15 years time.
Winning entries from an international architecture competition have been included in the most up to date model to show how the later phases of the project could be designed. There are 8 active projects already under way as part of NOMA and these new images are the first time that these have all been shown together with preferred designs for future phases. The scheme will transform the 20-acres site around Victoria Station in to a vibrant new place to live, work and shop, as well as promising a wide range of recreational activities.
NOMA will be built at a cost of £800m, the first phase of which is The Co-operative Group’s new head office, which is scheduled for completion in October 2012.
LOG PUNT ‘KING EDWARD VII'
Report prepared by Alan Wright and Chris Borough, members of the Great Lakes Historical Co-Operative Society Ltd.
Other log punt stories are contained in the Album Log Punts
Images of the log punt King Edward VII are in the album King Edward VII
NOTE: The original image has been removed as ID uncertain
The log punt King Edward VII, known to all on the river as the ‘King’, was built by Henry Miles Breckenridge for his father, John Breckenridge at Failford – she was launched on 18th April 1902. She was 101 feet in length, 22 feet in breadth, depth of hold 4ft 6in and drawing an incredibly low 2 feet of water when fully loaded. Power was supplied by a 15hp steam engine, driving a single 10 feet wide by 8 feet high stern paddle wheel.
The ‘King’ operated on the Wallamba, Coolongolook, and Wang Wauk Rivers for around a decade, carting logs to the mill at Failford and delivering sawn timber to Tuncurry for loading onto awaiting ships.
In this period she was fitted with a derrick for loading rock, and with the construction of the Tuncurry/Taree road, was used to transfer gravel downstream to Tuncurry.
The ‘King’ then was towed north to Breckenridge’s timber mill at Kendall, working on the Camden Haven.
Launch at Failford
On Saturday last [26th April 1902] Mr. John Breckenridge, J.P., launched from his yards at Failford a steam lighter, built for the purpose of, bringing logs to the Failford mill. Her dimensions are: — Length, 101 feet; 22 feet beam; and 4 feet 6 inches depth of hold. She is built on the diagonal principle, and trussed fore and aft, to prevent her bending or getting out of shape. Her planking on the sides is 2 inches thick, on two thicknesses 1½ inch diagonals, while her bottom is 2 inches thick, and her deck 3 inches, the two latter portions being, constructed of [New Zealand] kauri. The steamer's machinery is being made by Messrs. J. and A. Taylor, engineers, Townhead Works, Ayr, Scotland. She will be supplied with a pair of high pressure horizontal engines of 30 horse-power nominal, and her boiler will be tested by cold water to 200 lbs. pressure. The vessel is now waiting for her machinery, which is expected to arrive in about three weeks' or a month's time. The new steamer was all ready for launching at a quarter past twelve o'clock when, the triggers were knocked out, and Miss Minnie Breckenridge, youngest daughter of Mr. J. Breckenridge, broke the bottle, and christened the new ship "King Edward VII.," as she glided into her natural element without a hitch. There was no gathering of guests at the launching, but we understand that there will be a public function when the steamer makes' her trial trip, when her enterprising- and generous owner will in all probability give an excursion. The Manning River Times - Wednesday 30 April 1902
Excursion to Coomba
Following a successful trial run in September 1902, John Breckenridge provided the vessel for an excursion to Coomba: “Mr. Breckenridge's excursion in the King Edward VII to Coomba, on Saturday last, was a great success, about 160 persons availing themselves of the outing. The "King" left Failford at 8 a.m., and after taking in a number of the Forster folks at the cutting [known as the stone cut], reached Coomba on Wallis Lake at about 11 o'clock. Lunch was then served to all on board, after which games were indulged in till about 4 o'clock, when the King steamed homeward. All on board seemed to thoroughly enjoy themselves, and no doubt will long remember Mr. Breckenridge's kindness.” The Manning River Times - Wednesday 5 November 1902
Transport to the Annual Cape Hawke Regatta
John Breckenridge, along with other sawmillers, commonly made their log punts available for people attending the Annual Cape Hawke Regatta. The first record that positively identified as the attendance King Edward VII was in early 1907. “The following conveyances were used: — Messrs. Wright and McLaren's punt from Tuncurry; Messrs. J. and T. Miles' punt from Forster; Mr. J. Breckenridge's " King Edward VII from Failford ; Messrs. Smith and Everingham's drogher " Victory" from Nabiac ; Messrs. Goodlet and Smith's punt from Coolongolook; and the lobster boat Thistle; besides numerous oil launches and pulling boats.” The Manning River Times - Sat 5 Jan 1907.
Combined Schools Excursion and Picnic
“Friday, the 15th October [1908], was quite a gala day for young and old on the Wallamba when the Failford, Lower Wallamba and Darawank Schools combined in arranging an excursion and picnic for the children. Early on that bright morning children, parents and friends were observable coming from all points of the compass, wending their various ways to Failford wharf. Ladies with baskets and hampers containing the necessaries for diminishing and appeasing abnormal appetites which are created by an outing of this particular character. On arrival at the wharf it was noticed that the steam punt "King Edward VII," which had been gratuitously placed at the pleasure seeker's disposal by Mr. John Breckenridge, was gaily adorned with bunting, while a commodious awning had been erected on board as a safeguard against sun, wind and rain. A start was made with something like 200 oldsters and youngsters, and en-route the pupils, parents and friends of the Lower Wallamba and Darawank schools were called for. Now the seating accommodation was taxed to the utmost as nearly 300 souls were on board. All were on pleasure bent with the one desire of making the day thoroughly enjoyable. The course now lay for Regatta Island which had been selected as the rendezvous, and here a landing was effected and fun began in earnest. Though the trip by water was enjoyable — passing en-route islands, islets, shoals, and oyster beds with groves of cabbage palms in the background, and various kinds of aquatic birds disporting themselves on the placid waters of the lakes, or hurrying to safer distance; yet the limits were somewhat circumscribed, and the buoyant feelings had full vent when the landing was made on the ideal pleasure grounds.” The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer - Saturday 7 November 1908.
Breckenridge sawmill at Kendall
In 1906 John Breckenridge decided to establish a sawmill at Kendall and sent his son, Henry Miles Breckenridge, to construct and commence operating the mill. He was joined shortly after by his brothers Thomas Miles Breckenridge and Forster Breckenridge. Thomas left Kendall around 1911 and his two brothers continued to manage the operation. Early in the operation, the log punt St Olive was constructed; King Edward VII was taken to Kendall circa 1909.
It would appear that the scale of operation at Kendall was decreasing as, in October 1921, the Macleay River Co-operative Steamship Company Ltd was reported to have purchased the King Edward VII to replace the Rescue that had foundered.
The mill at Kendall was burned down in 1926; the St. Olive was taken down to Tuncurry and was purchased by Porter’s sawmill.
King Edward VII commences operation on the Macleay
The King Edward VII was used on the river as a drogher, transporting goods along the river from Greenhill to meet ships including the Kinchela and s.s Douglas Mawson. In 1922 she was valued at £1415/13/6. She operated for a short period before The Macleay River Co-operative Steamship Company Ltd. announced it was in voluntary liquidation. The liquidator advised shareholders that he had sold the two vessels, the King Edward VII and the s.s. Kinchela to the North Coast Steam Navigation Company for £12,507/19/6.
Sad end of the King Edward VII
Three years after she was bought by the N.C.S.N.C. she was being slipped for repairs and maintenance when she collapsed. The reports were brief. DROGHER DAMAGED.
“While the drogher "King Edward VII" was being hauled on to the slip for repairs on Tuesday afternoon [10th February 1925] the stern portion broke off and dropped into the stream.” Macleay Argus (Kempsey, NSW) - Fri 13 Feb 1925. The wreck was advertised for sale in late February but no record of the sale has been found.
Image Source: Great Lakes Museum, Tuncurry NSW (image PN 001005)
Acknowledgements: Information provided by the Macleay Valley Historical Society much appreciated.
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The Co-operative has operated from this part of Manchester for nearly 150 years, building and adapting as needed.
The Co-operative Group has received planning permission from Manchester City Council to build its new head office in Manchester.
The new building, which will be constructed on land on Miller Street, opposite the Co-operative Insurance tower, will serve as the head office for The Co-operative Group, the UK’s largest mutual retailer.
Watch a virtual tour of The Co-operative Group’s new head office www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcHGVv1bJTU
Lucky shoppers Imelda and Iain Graham enjoyed a shopping trip with a difference at The Co-operative Food’s Macaulay Road store in Stornoway … a five minute trolley dash around the aisles.
The couple, from Lower Bayble, won the trolley dash as first prize in a raffle organised by the store in aid of ENABLE Scotland, The Co-operative Group’s charity of the year. Iain took on the challenge, and managed to fill two trolleys with items worth £680.
Pictured: Iain and Imelda Graham celebrate their success with their children (l to r) Isabelle, AJ and Caitlin, store manager Steven Cooper (2nd left) and store colleagues Maggie Thompson and Alison MacDonald.
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The Co-operative Group has appointed Steve Murrells to the role of Chief Executive of its food business. He replaces Tim Hurrell who retired last year.
Murrells (46), who will report to Group Chief Executive, Peter Marks, will join Britain’s fifth largest food retailer from Danish meat company, Tulip, where he is UK Chief Executive.
Prior to that he held a number of senior positions with Tesco, including CEO for One Stop stores; Commercial Director Fresh Foods, and, most recently, he was responsible for the integration of the Dobbies garden centre business. He had previously worked in buying and trading for Sainsbury’s.
Murrells takes up his post in July.
Commenting on his new role Steve Murrells said: “The Co-operative Group has made enormous strides in its food business and this is an exciting time to be leading the team as we focus on delivering the full potential of The Co-operative brand for the benefit of our customers and members.”
The Co-operative Group has also announced the promotion of Sean Toal to the new position of Chief Operating Officer Food, reporting to Murrells. Toal was previously Commercial Director Food.
Explains Peter Marks: “As a result of the acquisition and integration of Somerfield, The Co-operative Group has experienced phenomenal growth, and is once again a major force in food retailing. These appointments reflect this. Steve and Sean bring to their new positions a wealth of experience and complementary skills to make us more efficient and more customer focussed as we move through the next phase of our development as the UK’s leading community retailer.”
Ilkeston Co-op building pictured in August 2012 .
Most of the building closed to the public on July 24th 2013 .
Ilkeston Co-operative Society was once the most successful of the retailers in Ilkeston Borough. However its popularity declined steeply during the 1960s and 1970s during which time its minor branches were closed.
The note on the back of this photograph reads:
Taken at the Official Opening of Clyde St Premises (Grocery-Produce)
28/7/1954
The photograph is from box A5969 from the archives of the Newcastle & Suburban Co-operative Society, Ltd., held by Cultural Collections at the University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia.
If you have any information about this photograph, please contact us.
The Women’s Co-Operative Guild (WCG) was an auxiliary movement within the Co-Operative Wholesale Society (CWS). Founded in 1883 the WCG immediately undertook to promoted and advocated for women’s social issues. It also provided educational social activities for its members and as such rapidly developed a wide support base. WCG campaigns included maternity benefit, fairer wages, divorce reforms, peace movements as well involvement in politics. The Guild’s activities and membership reached a peak during the 1930’s with over 72,000 members in 1,513 branches throughout the British Isles. The Scottish Women’s Co-Operative Guild was established in 1892 and the first Irish branch in 1906.
The guild is still active today as the Co-Operative Women’s Guild but does not hold the same prominence as it used to. The WCG changed to their current name in 1963.
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References:
www.coopwomensguild.co.uk/ (Co-Operative Women’s Guild website).
www.hull.ac.uk/arc/downloads/DCWcatalogue.pdf (Hull University Archives - includes a detailed early history of the CWG including their numerous campaigns and achievements). Also at archiveshub.ac.uk/features/hullhistory-womenscooperativeg...
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Enamels: 1 (blue).
Finish: Gilt.
Material: Brass.
Fixer: Pin.
Size: 1” in diameter (about 25mm)
Process: Die stamped.
Maker: No maker’s name or mark just the lettering CWS (Co-Operative Wholesale Society).
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From The Wigan Observer & District Advertiser, 14 August 1909:
“PARK LANE CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY: OPENING OF NEW PREMISES. Saturday was a red-letter day in the history of the Park Lane Co-operative Society as it was set apart for the opening of new premises at Ashton. The celebrations were carried out on a scale in keeping with the object, and as a result the members and friends had a thorough nine hours enjoyment. A monster procession was formed at Bryn, the children being conveyed from distant parts by train, tram and wagonette. Led by the North Ashton Prize Band and a landau, in which were seated Mr John Lowe, Mr Thos. Simm, and Mr Thos. Hasleden, who were all veteran supporters and initiators of the movement in the district, the procession proceeded in the following order:- 2000 girls, St Thomas' Brass band, 1080 boys, Haydock Prize Band, the adult members and their wives to the number of 1000, and the Ashton Public Prize Band. The route was Wigan-road to the Library, down Old-road, past St Thomas' Church, into Warrington-lane, and round the new premises into Liverpool-road, and to the picturesque grounds of Garswood Hall which had been placed at the disposal of the Society by Lord Gerard. The adult members adjourned from the procession opposite the new buildings, and in the absence of the president, Mr Henry Smalley, Mr E Walkden, the secretary of the Education Committee, opened the subsequent proceedings. He called upon Mr Heaton of the firm of Heaton, Ralph and Heaton, who had had the sole direction of the erection of the buildings, to present to Mr Lowe, who was one of the promoters of the society as far back as 1877, and who had occupied the position of secretary ever since, a beautiful [g]old key. Mr Walkden went on to say that he was pleased God had seen fit to spare some of the men who had put down their £5 to start the Society in 1877, and hoped God would spare them for many more years. Mr Heaton then made the presentation of the solid gold key, which bore a suitable inscription.
In his address, Mr Lowe said that he must thank them for the high honour which they had conferred upon him that day in asking him to perform the opening ceremony of those splendid premises, which he made bold to say were a credit to the members and directors and would certainly add to the beauty of the township. When he came to think back to the early times in the movement when a few ventured to form the Society they at that time could have no conception of the magnitude to which the Society would grow. Mr Lowe went on to outline the progress they had made, and said he could depend upon the loyalty of the members to make the enterprise a success. He then placed the key in the door and, declaring the premises open, wished that the blessing conferred upon them by God that day, in granting them such a beautiful day, would continue as long as time might last. He again thanked them for the honour they had done him, and said he would value the key as a valuable memento of that great event in the history of the Society.
In the Park the proceedings were of a very enjoyable character, and after tea had been partaken of Mr Henry Smalley, the president of the society, handed out gold medals, which bore the inscription “Aug. 17, 1909. Promoter of the P.L.F.S. February 1, 1877” whilst the recipients' initials were embossed on the opposite side, to Mr William Lowe, Mr John Lowe, Mr Thomas Simm and Mr Thomas Haselden. At the same time he also made the announcement that one had been forwarded to the Rev George Fox, their treasurer, who he was sorry to say was laid on a bed of sickness.
The recipients each thanked the members of the society for the kind manner in which they had … honored their services.
Mr Smalley than called upon Mr Lander, president of the CWS, to address the meeting. Mr Lander, in the course of a vigorous speech, spoke of the delight he had felt that day in accompanying the veterans who 32 years ago had formed the society at Park Lane. It was another illustration of the Biblical narrative of the sowing and the reaping, for no one could say how many had reaped from the seed which the veterans sowed so long ago. The success of the new premises would depend largely upon the women, for [even] if they denied them the vote they didn't deny them the power of spending the wages.
Mr E Walkden then moved a vote of thanks to Mr Smalley for presiding and to Mr Lander for his excellent speech, which, upon Mr Ellis Woods seconding, was carried unanimously. A vote of thanks was also passed to Lord Gerard, on the motion of Mr Lowe, and this was also supported by Mr Smalley.
The gala was then proceeded with, the races resulting as follows:-
50 Yards Handicap for Boys under 5 years. -1. E Higson. 2. R Holland. 3.J Chisnall.
50 Yards Handicap for Girls under 5 years. -1. A Lyon. 2. L Chisnall. 3. E Walkden.
80 Yards Skipping Rope Race for Girls, 10 to 13 years. -1. M Hart. 2. H Sharp. 3. G Atherton.
80 Yards Handicap Race for Married Women. -1. Mrs J Bold. 2. Mrs R Harrison. 3. Mrs E Adamson.
80 Yards Handicap for Junior Employees, under 20 years. -1. A Jenkins. 2. R Kilshaw. 3. J Witherington.
80 Yards Handicap for Senior Employees. -1. S Siden. 2. E Holden. 3. J Corcoran.
70 Yards Handicap for Boys, 8 to 10 Years -1. J Parkinson. 2. E Brooks. 3. A barton.
80 Yards Egg and Spoon Race, 13 years or under. -1. Harold Otho Ince. 2. Albert Smith. 3. Clifford Walkden.
100 Yards Handicap Race for Boys, 11 to 13 years. -1. Wm Priestners. 2. Hy. Shaw. 3.Hy. Atherton.
80 Yards Handicap for Married Men. -1. Robt. Meyers. 2. Geo. Atherton. 3. Jos. White.”
Covering her eyes and face, this individual attempts to cover the bruising and swelling associated with face reconstruction surgical procedure. Orlando, Fl, USA
Peter Marks, The Co-operative Group Chief Executive at the foundations event for The Co-operative’s new head office.
The event was held on Friday 16 July 2010 on the construction site of the Group’s new head office to announce the community benefits of the project for Manchester and to mark the start of the construction phase for the new building.
You can read Peter Marks’ speech at www.co-operative.coop/estates/Developments/New-Head-Offic...
For more information on The Co-operative’s new head office go to www.co-operative.coop/newheadoffice
St Laurence's Catholic Church on the corner of Ogilvy and Brumley Streets, Leongatha is named after Lorcán Ua Tuathail, also known as St Laurence O'Toole (1128 – 14 November 1180) the Archbishop of Dublin at the time of the Norman invasion of Ireland. He played a prominent role in the Irish Church Reform Movement of the 12th century and mediated between the parties during and after the invasion. St Laurence's Catholic Church was officially opened on 16 November 1913 after Bishop Patrick Phelan of the Sale Diocese had laid the foundation stone on the 26th of April. Dr Mannix, Coadjutor Archbishop of Melbourne preached the occasional sermon at the Pontifical High Mass, which was celebrated by Bishop Phelan who dedicated the Church to St. Laurence O'Toole.
The original plans for the Catholic Church prepared by Melbourne architect, Charles I. Rice, were for a brick building in the Romanesque Style including a belfry with an estimated cost of £7,000. It was decided to proceed with only part of the original plan, omitting the belfry, sanctuary and part of the nave, and the modified building was constructed by F. and E. Deague of Fitzroy for the sum of £3,200. In 1938, the present cream cement render was added to the exterior.
The construction of the church to replace the original wooden building of 1895 was the highlight of the ambitious building program initiated by Dean P. J. Coyne soon after he was appointed to the newly created Leongatha Parish in 1901, which began with the construction of the Presbytery in 1904. After the construction of the new Church, the old wooden church was moved to a site adjacent to the Presbytery and renovated to become the new Catholic School. The adjacent convent was completed in 1914 and was followed by the final building, the new Church Hall, in 1927. Dean P. J. Coyne was held in high regard by his Parishioners, and the title of Monsignor was conferred by the Pope in 1933. When he died in September of the following year, his remains were interred in the grounds of the Church and a memorial erected.
St Laurence's Catholic Church at Leongatha is a rendered brick structure with a gabled terra cotta shingle roof. It has a notable Spanish Baroque south front with a matching porch now under reconstruction in an extended form. Centrally on the ridge stands a tall louvered lantern capped by a cupola. The church is a simple gable with no aisles and the nave is lit by semi-circular arched windows with arched tracery in each bay which is defined externally by piers with capitals. At the front and side boundaries, the original cast iron fence with rendered piers, basalt base and wrought iron gates remain. A steel belfry behind the fence to the east has been removed. The building was originally in brick, with only the mouldings rendered, in which form it approaches the Romanesque “blood and bandages” style, but the south front is closer in form to a Dutch colonial or Spanish Baroque in form. In rendered form it has a strong impression of Spanish Mission style. The omitted belfry may have given further clues. The front facade is symmetrical with a full width projecting porch. It steps through two major levels, each defined by intersecting piers and scrolls. It is divided into three parts by piers at the side and piers flanking a central segmental three part window. The side piers have half round caps while the inner piers have scrolls against the raised pediment. The pediment is capped with a cross mounted on a projecting pedestal. The central window has a wide architrave and heavy hood mould with brackets above it. To either side are oculi windows. The porch front is divided into three parts with half round capped piers, the central panel containing the arched entry door and a triangular parapet with a central rendered arched panel containing a cross. The side panels have arched windows and semi-circular pediments.
The interior has a segmental barrel vault ceiling, paneled with strong arches at the caps of pilasters defining each window bay. The piers have ionic capitals below a string course defining a wide blocking course with a Baroque capital bearing a shield and flanked by elaborate scrolls. In the cove above, below the segmental arch, are further plaster decorations around a shell motif focused on the pilasters. Cast plaster stations of the cross are hung on either side of the pilasters. Across the south end of the nave, one bay deep is a balcony carried on a pair of cast iron columns on either side of the central aisle. This has a bulging ogee balustrade decorated with elaborate plaster swags, scrolls and shields and has a central projection over the aisle. The architrave below the balustrade is decorated with swags meeting at plaques with full relief babies faces. The ceiling panels have large suspended circular plaster panels concealing vents in each structural bay. The balance of the bay is decorated with scroll panels with a central motif and arched ends against the cove. The whole of the plaster decorations are picked out in elaborate paint work and gilding.
Leongatha is a town in the foothills of the Strzelecki Ranges, South Gippsland Shire, Victoria, Australia, located 135 kilometres south-east of Melbourne. The town is the civic, commercial, industrial, religious, educational and sporting centre of the region. The Murray Goulburn Co-operative Co. Limited, is a farmers' co-operative which trades in Australia under the Devondale label, and has a dairy processing plant just north of the town producing milk-based products for Australian and overseas markets. First settlement of the area by Europeans occurred in 1845. The Post Office opened as Koorooman on 1 October 1887 and renamed Leongatha in 1891 when a township was established on the arrival of the railway. The Daffodil Festival is held annually in September. Competitions are held and many daffodil varieties are on display. A garden competition is also held and there are many beautiful examples throughout the provincial town. The South Gippsland Railway runs historical diesel locomotives and railcars between the market and dairy towns of Nyora and Leongatha, passing through Korumburra.
Preparing young Queenslanders for life in the 1990s, we saw personal computers make their way into schools during the 80s with a strong focus on health, regional education and the arts by Queensland Education.
The photographic unit at the Premier’s Department, Office of State Affairs, captured a snapshot of various events, programmes and initiatives for school children throughout Queensland. This collection contains several arts, music and drama as well as students participating in computer usage.
In the early 1980s, several different computer manufacturers were vying for a foothold in the education market, Apple, Tandy, Atari, Sinclair, Amstrad, Microbee and many others. By 1985 Apple Macintosh was considered a standard system (alongside several others) for all states except Western Australia which adopted the BBC Model B and Microbee computer systems as a standard.
These photos are part are the photographic records held at Queensland State Archives, www.archivessearch.qld.gov.au/series/S189
1985
The discussion paper, Education 2000: Issues and options for the future of Education in Queensland was released.
The use of technology to enhance distance education, work in schools and educational administration was supported.
Approval was given for schools to alter the placement of the three pupil free days.
The Department of Education developed a policy on the education of gifted children.
The Special Education Resource Centres were formed as state-wide services, as part of the Division of Special Education.
Early special education officially commenced.
1986
The age of first attendance at primary school increased. Children had to turn five years by 31 January to be eligible for enrolment in Year 1.
There was an expansion of the curriculum in secondary schools and TAFE colleges evident in the further development of co-operative secondary-TAFE programs.
The Advisory Committee which reviewed submissions made in response to Education 2000 reported to the Minister.
The distance education trial began through the Mt Isa School of the Air.
A Preschool to Year 10 (P–10) Syllabus Framework was developed.
Endeavour Foundation schools transferred to Department of Education.
Policy Statement 15 Integration: Mainstreaming of Students with Special Needs introduced.
1987
Children had to turn 5 years by 31 December to be eligible for enrolment in Year 1 in the following year.
The Department of Education launched a series of documents entitled Meeting the Challenge which highlighted a corporate style of management.
The Department reshaped its central administration by strengthening the role of the Policy Committee, appointing a Chief Inspector and adopting comprehensive strategic planning processes.
In regions, initiatives were built on the commitment to decentralisation, while further devolution of responsibility occurred in the operational management of educational programs.
Two new education regions were formed (South Coast and Sunshine Coast regional offices).
The P–10 Curriculum Framework was developed and curriculum documents revised.
The Roma Middle School opened and catered for students in Years 4–10.
A post-compulsory college, the Alexandra Hills Senior College opened.
Two new centres of distance education opened at Longreach and Charters Towers.
1988
The Inspectorate was regionalised.
There was continued development of an integrated P–10 curriculum.
The senior secondary curriculum was broadened to cater for all learners.
Cooperative programs between secondary schools and TAFE colleges were conducted.
The use of computers and information technology in schools was given a high priority.
The Special Education Resource and Development Centres were formed as a consequence of the reorganisation of the Division of Special Education.
Individual education plans for students with disabilities were introduced as part of the new policy Policy Statement 16: Policy and Practice for Special Education Services.
The report National Overview of Educational Services for Isolated Severely Handicapped Children resulted from a Project of National Significance undertaken as a joint project of the Commonwealth Department of Employment Education and Training and the Department of Education Division of Special Services.
The Queensland School for the Deaf closes, as a consequence of decentralisation of services to students with hearing impairments during the 1980's. Programs for students with vision impairment were also decentralised during this period.
1989
A new Education Act 1989 was enacted.
The Department of Education's first strategic plan was adopted.
Decisions about school budgets were devolved to the school level.
There was an amalgamation of correspondence schools which became the School of Distance Education — Brisbane Centre P–12.
The first high school built to a new design opened at Bribie Island.
New prototype buildings for preschool, primary and special education units were assessed.
1989–1990
A comprehensive internal review of the Department of Education commenced through the consultation process, Education Have Your Say.
Professor Nancy Viviani reviewed Tertiary Entrance and produced the report, A Review of Tertiary Entrance in Queensland.
The Offices of Higher Education and Non-State Schooling were established.
The Department developed The Corporate Vision for Senior Schooling in Queensland to accommodate the diverse needs of students in Years 11 and 12.
The first entire primary school based on the new building model opened to students.
1990–1991
The report, Focus on Schools was released. A major restructure of the Department of Education followed.
The Public Sector Management Commission (PSMC) reviewed the Department of Education including its role, operations, responsibilities and management.
Greater responsibilities were devolved to 11 regions for resource, financial administration and human resource management.
A new English Language Arts Syllabus was introduced.
Priority was given to expanding languages other than English (LOTE).
The Viviani Report recommended the establishment of the Tertiary Entrance Procedures Authority (TEPA).
Consultants were engaged to assist in the development of an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) management plan.
The Equity Directorate (Workforce and Studies) was established. A social justice strategy was developed.
The PSMC developed guidelines for recruitment and selection based on merit and equity principles.
The inspectorate ended.
The report Focus on Schools recommended that a strategy for managing the integration policy in Queensland schools be developed as a matter of urgency, and that a state-wide support centre for students with low incidence disabilities be established. A restructure of the Department of Education followed.
Occupational therapists and physiotherapists were employed by the Department of Education to work in schools with students with disabilities. (These services were transferred from the Department of Families).
Policy Statement — Management of Support Teaching: Learning Difficulties (P–7) was introduced.
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