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The Co-operative Society in Nottingham was established in Lenton in about 1863 as the Lenton & Nottingham Co-operative Society, but later changed its name to the Nottingham Co-operative Society. During the 1890s, when large housing developments were built in the nearby old villages of Radford, Lenton, Basford and Sneinton, the Co-op embarked on a major expansion programme, building numerous new stores across the city. By the time of Wright's 1915-16 Directory, there were 35 branches in the city. This one on Egypt Road, New Basford, is one of the larger out-lying branches and has the typical pointed-gable facade bearing the date, in this case 1906. The building is now flats.
Title / Titre :
Chief Ed Underwood and his wife, joint manager of the Goldstream Co-operative, formed by Cowichan knitters, prepare wool for knitters, Saanichton, British Columbia /
Le chef Ed Underwood et son épouse, cogérants de la coopérative Goldstream regroupant des tricoteuses cowichan, prépare de la laine pour les tricoteuses, Saanichton (Colombie-Britannique)
Creator(s) / Créateur(s) : Department of Recreation and Conservation / Ministére des loisirs et de la conservation
Date(s) : 1960-1962
Reference No. / Numéro de référence : ITEM 3221961,
central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=fonandcol&id=3221...
Location / Lieu : Saanichton, British Columbia, Canada / Saanichton, Colombie-Britannique, Canada
Credit / Mention de source :
Department of Recreation and Conservation. Canada. Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. Library and Archives Canada, e011307942 /
Ministére des loisirs et de la conservation. Canada. Ministère des Affaires indiennes et du Nord canadien. Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, e011307942
Notes taken from the Book - Ballyfermot Building a Community 1948 - 2006 Ken Larkin
Joe Deasy R.I.P. 1922 - 2013
Inchicore and Ballyfermot Co-Operative Society Ltd
Inchicore Co-Operative Society Ltd began in the Workman’s Club in Inchicore in 1946 and traded in the Inchicore area successfully. They applied to the housing department of Dublin Corporation in 1949 for permission to open Sarsfield Co-Operative Society within Ballyfermot and to operate a grocery retailers. A petition of over 1,100 signatures to grant the Co-Op the tenancy on Decies Road was sent to Dublin Corporation along with the application. The people that signed the petition were all residents of Ballyfermot and clearly wanted the society opened. It read as follows.
We the undersigned Residents of Ballyfermot Housing area petition Dublin Corporation to grant Inchicore Co-Operative Society Ltd, the tenancy of one of the Corporation-owned shops on Decies Road in Ballyfermot housing scheme for the purpose of Co-Operative grocery retailing in the interest of the residents in Ballyfermot
As there were a small number of shops for such a large population in Ballyfermot the people felt that these shops were charging exorbitant prices. In 1949 permission was granted by Dublin Corporation, for the Ballyfermot Co- Operative Society to open at 41 Decies Road Ballyfermot. A shop manager and staff were employed and they began to recruit people to become members of the Society. As a member, they had to commit to paying one shilling per week. Unemployment was high so this was a big commitment to some people that had very little. There was a good response and approx 500 members joined and most of these were resident in Ballyfermot. It ran very successfully for three years. September 1952 the committee were holding an outdoor meeting near the Co-Op on Decies Road. The reason behind the meeting was to stress to the people how important it was to have a Co-Op in a working class area and to recruit new members. On the committee that was running the Co-Op, there were some non-political people; also, there were four people that were attached to the Irish Worker’s League, which had affiliation to Communism. The word Communist was a taboo subject in 1950s-60s not only in Ireland but also around the world. The four people involved in the Irish Workers Party were Joe Deasy, who was chairman of Ballyfermot Co-Op Jeffery Palmer, Maisy McElroy, and Sean Mcgee. During the meeting, there were interruptions, and barracking, by some of the public and the speakers were not allowed to speak.
Questions were asked from some of the people gathered for the meeting. One of the questions that were asked ‘Was it true that there were Communists on the Co-Op Committee’.
Joe Deasy answered ‘He did not intend to discuss any member of the Co-Op or their politics as they were irrelevant to the existence and promotion of the Co-Op movement’.
The Co-Op movement was non-sectarian and non-political in the sense that anybody could become a member of the society or a member of the committee irrespective of their politics. One person from the crowd shouted if he could get up on the platform to address a few questions to Joe Deasy. So he emerged from the crowd and had prepared questions written out. He asked was the chairman a Communist and were there Communists on the committee. He said that he was representing the local clergy. Joe Deasy repeated what he said before and then the person was asked to leave the platform. The following day he got a phone call from a Mr McGowan who was on the Co-Op Committee but was not a member of the Irish Worker’s League and he wanted to clear the air from the night before. He asked Joe if he was a member of the Irish Worker’s League and Joe said that he was and so were three other people on the committee. McGowan was shocked by this information and he said to Joe that the clergy were behind the unrest and that he had experience of the clergy being opposed to something in the past for various reasons and that they will be determined to see this through to the end. Joe said that they would have no objection to any of the priest’s joining the Co-Op Committee but they would have been treated the same as everyone else on the committee and they felt that the priest’s did not want it on that basis.
The following Sunday in the three churches that served Ballyfermot and Inchicore the priest’s spoke from the pulpit about the previous outdoor meeting and how the chairman of the Co-Op was asked questions which he refused to answer. Therefore, as a result of this they decided that there were communist issues involved and the faithful were asked not to be members of the Co-Op or to patronise the shop in question. This had affected Joe personally arising out of being called off the altar not by his name but chairperson of the society and it was well known whom the priest’s were referring to. Joe’s parents who attended the church locally and who did good work in the area got an inclination of what was going to be said from the pulpit and decided that they would get mass in an outside parish of James Street. This episode was very painful for Joe, and caused great anxiety in their family.
Sean McGee’s parents who lived in Kilkenny were approached by the Garda and told what was happening in Ballyfermot and this meant a break in his relationship with his family for two years.
Sunday, the 2 November 1952, the Sunday Press wrote an article condemning the Co-Op Committee and their communist activities and calling for the Co-Op to be shut down. A letter followed this from the newly formed Sarsfield Tenants Association to the Alderman, Councillors, and T.D.s of the area condemning the exposure of communist activities within the Co-Op.
Letters Concerning the Ballyfermot Co-Operative Society Ltd
Figure 19
Gilbert Library. Pearse St. File 153/01B
Everybody who knows the slightest thing about communist technique knows that its first objective is contact. What better contact than the unsuspecting members of a Co-Op. Here let us state that the other Co-Ops and the producer Co-Ops in the country escaped that evil influence. It was Ballyfermot’s misfortune to be selected for infiltration. How appropriate are the names of Ballyfermot, Sarsfield, Decies, and Cremona, they might have been changed to Lenin, Stalin, and perhaps Deasy Road.
Therefore, public opinion changed against them and a picket was put on the shop. To save the Co-Op the four people admitted that they were members of the Communist Party and offered to resign from the committee but they would not resign from the Association as they to do so they felt that it would go against their Civil Liberties. Tim Graham one of the committee members met with the Irish Civil Liberties Association and explained what was happening. They decided that there was not a Civil Liberty involved in this case. The Co-Op Association was very disappointed with their decision. They could not understand how the Pulpit was being used to destroy a Society or a Co-Op movement that was set up to help the people especially working class people. The Co-Op survived for a few months after this. April 1953 the Co-Op had to close as it was not getting enough custom to be commercially viable.
Figure 20
Gilbert Library. Pearse St. File 153/01Be
The City Manager writing back to Sarsfield Residents Association about the
Ballyfermot Co-Operative Society Ltd.
Figure 21
Gilbert Library. Pearse St. File 153/01B
Letter from Canon Troy, 23 March 1953 to Dublin Corporation Housing department in connection with the Ballyfermot Co-Operative Society Ltd.
Figure 22
Letter from the Assistant city Manager to Canon Troy in connection with the shop on Decies Road 28 March 1953.
Race winners at the finish line with Coronation Street's Ryan Thomas: L to R - Grace Fisher, Ryan Thomas, Ian Symington and Ashleigh Williams.
The race winner - 31 year-old Ian Symington from Manchester, commented: ”It was a great occasion and really well organised. I am normally used to running hills not flat but, to warm-up with hundreds of Santas was fantastic and I was delighted with my time of just over 18 minutes.”
The leading ladies were twenty year-old friends and students from the University of Manchester - Grace Fisher and Ashleigh Williams - who crossed the line together in 22.3 minutes.
Coronation Street star Ryan Thomas supported the event - which raised more than £30,000 for learning disability charity, Mencap.
Walked past this door of 78-84 Colmore Row in Birmingham's Colmore Business District so many times, and not got this detail before.
Above the door is a ghost sign for "Co-operative Permanent".
The offices of Mills & Reeve - Birmingham.
78-84 Colmore Row.
Nos 78-84 was the Phoenix Assurance Co., 1915-17 by Ewen Harper & Brother & Co. A very impressive example of Monumental Classic, in Albert Richardson's phrase, influenced by Selfridges in London. Seven bays of giant fluted Doric half-columns and tower-like end bays with slightly stepped-back tops. Concave corners with inset porches, and intelligent use of channelled rustication.
From Pevsner Architectural Guides Birmingham by Andy Foster.
Was the Co-operative Permanent Building Society in the mid 20th century.
These two tokens were sold by West Benhar Co-operative Society for use by customers. The yellow token was valued at 1/2d (less than .05p) and would have been used to purchase goods, probably groceries, from co-operative shops.
The pink token, valued at 'half pint' would have been used to purchase milk from the co-op. It could either have been used for door-step purchases of milk, which were delivered to the customer's house by the milkman, or to purchase milk from cooperative shops.
West Benhar Co-operative Society Ltd started in 1885 and opened a branch in Blackridge in 1897. A new shop was required and building began in 1902, soon after which the new premises opened, including a drapery department.
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Customers at The Co-operative food store in Holmfirth, were greeted by staff in unusual headgear on Thursday (12 January).
Staff at the store wore hats from many nations – from a Moroccan fez to an American cowboy hat – to mark the start of the International Year of Co-operatives, and piecing together a giant global jigsaw to celebrate the global successes of co-operation.
Designated by the United Nations as a celebratory year, 2012 International Year of Co-operatives provides the opportunity for the one billion co-operators across the world to highlight how, through co-operative values and principles, “Co-operative Enterprises Build a Better World”.
Co-operatives provide over 100 million jobs around the world, and The Co-operative Group operates 4,800 trading outlets in the UK, employing more than 106,000 people with an annual turnover of more than £13bn. The Co-operative Food is the UK’s fifth biggest food retailer.
Co-operatives UK, the body representing co-operative organisations in the UK, will be supporting its members with a year-long programme of activities and materials aimed at raising awareness of the UK co-operative sector throughout 2012.
For more information on United Nations 2012 International Year of Co-operatives visit the ICA at www.2012.coop or the Global News Hub at www.thenews.coop
An unusual moment when a Blue Triangle wasn't passing over at warp-speed or sitting with wings folded tightly. This one chose a sunny position and spread its wings generously. I thanked it.
The Internet Security Force, or ISF consists of computer programs that function as virtual soldiers that are responsible for tracking down fuckhead computer hackers and "destroying" them.
This was actually inspired by trying to play CoD W@W today. I couldn't find a lobby without fuckhed hackers. Thank you for destroying a once awesome game.
Also, this may be the beginning of a new faction. I have enough pack a punched weapons to arm them with.
19 April 2015. Ladysmith Road,
Ladybur House, Burbridge Way, London N17
§ Official website of Ladybur Housing Co-operative.
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Taken at the Halesowen distribution centre, 26.6.10
taken during Co-operatives Fortnight 19th June-3rd July 2010
These lovely sandstone windows are part of the derelict Co-operative Society's building in the Townhead area of Kirkintilloch. The building has been in ruins for many years now and is a bit of an eyesore since the fire in 2007. With the also derelict Town Hall at the other end of the Cowgate they form a sad pair of bookends to the town.
The Co-operative have co-purchased 200 bee hives to go on land we contract farm near Inverurie, Aberdeenshire.
The hives have been brightly painted in joint Co-operative Membership and Co-operative Farms colours, which makes for a unique addition to the already stunning countryside in the North East of Scotland. The hives help to support The Co-operative’s Plan Bee campaign.
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.”
Taken at the Halesowen distribution centre, 26.6.10
taken during Co-operatives Fortnight 19th June-3rd July 2010
This is a poor photo of a behavior I see often but seldom get a photo of. The moray and the grouper are traveling the reef together. The grouper will devour anything the eel flushes out in its travels.
This is part of the burned-out Co-operative Society building in the Townhead area of Kirkintilloch. At one time it housed the Society's offices and had a furniture shop underneath. It's the first time I've noticed the sandstone carving of the handshake and the word unitas beneath what looks to be a beehive. The building has been lying derelict for a great many years now which is a great shame.
Date of Creation: Unknown
Reference Number: MG-14.184-J.1.73
Photographer/Collection: Arnold Co-operative, Joseph and Mary Laben
1980s co-op plastic bag with 'people who care' branding and a nice mix of seventies turquoise and eighties brown!
L to R: Robin Fieth, Finance Director, Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, is pictured presenting the CSR Award to Len Wardle, Chairman, the Co-operative Group
For more information go to:
www.co-operative.coop/corporate/Press/Press-releases/Head...
Staff from The Co-operative Group – Manchester’s biggest employer – show their support for ‘I Love MCR’ as they take delivery of 300 t-shirts at their Corporation Street head office. The shirts will be sold to staff to raise money for Mencap, The Co-operative’s charity of the year.
The Co-operative Revolution: A Graphic Novel vividly showcases the past, present and future of a radical movement that has grown to become the most successful grassroots campaign the world has ever seen.
The Novel is available to buy in paperback, sold at a considerably subsidised price - www.co-operative.coop/graphic-novel/.
Alternatively, read a FREE online version www.co-operative.coop/graphic-novel/play/
when your countries fate is at risk, you know who to call on. Op Oh-Four-Five. of Libyan descent, this is the only operative currently serving in the US with the ability to say they've saved a country. how? well, that may be a story for another time...
so I improved slightly. and NO, that is not an attempt at multicam.
it's a derivative of chocolate chip camouflage used by Libyans. It does look multicam-ish though.
The Co-operative Group has plunged into £559 million first-half losses as its banking arm debts wiped out supermarket profits.
The Co-op, which employs more than 100,000 people, warned there would be "no quick fixes" with job losses imminent as part of a wider group restructuring plan.
The strategy is part of a four-year turnaround plan, after reporting pre-tax losses of £709.4 million in the Co-operative Bank for the first six months to the end of June.
Bondholders ranging from pensioners to hedge funds will take a loss on their investment under plans for a ''bail-in'', forced to contribute £500 million through an "exchange offer", which will result in a stock market listing for the bank.
The Co-op will inject £1 billion itself into the bank.
The bank, which employs about 10,000 staff, slashed the value of its loans by £496 million, as corporate loans acquired from its disastrous takeover of Britannia Building Society in 2009 continue to deteriorate.
It also wrote down almost £150 million on a new IT system, which had been planned by former management.
And the bank booked another £61 million to cover the cost of previous misconduct - including £25 million for mis-sold payment protection insurance, £26 million for credit card and identity theft protection and £10 million for mis-sold interest rate swaps.
The bank's £709.4 million losses compare with £59 million losses a year earlier, while at group level, the losses compare with £18 million of profits in the first half of 2012.
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/heavy-losses...
Walsall in 1994, showing part of the Co-op site based around Shaw Street- at one time a co-op bakery, it was redeveloped over a long period as planning delays and later old mine workings slowed the rebuilding. Eventually a Superstore and, as shown here, a homemaker non-food store were opened and the Department store in the centre closed as all trade moved here. Gradually this site was slowly closed down as well, leaving Walsall without any major Co-op stores, although the suburbs have food stores dotted around.
Birds rarely pose for me, so when one does, I like to take full advantage of the situation. This little guy or gal even turned to look at the camera. I was really pleased with these shots until Phil and Lorraine posted shots of tree swallows mating. Sigh.
3 Scientology operatives were lurking around during the anti-SLAPP hearing yesterday (4 Feb 2014) and taking pictures of me and others with their phones.
I spotted them taking pictures of me when I ran across the street to get a drink of water during a short break. During a second break I took these shots of them. I didn't have time to deal with them properly. They are low level DSA.
If I see you around again, OSA trash, I'm gonna get close-ups of all of you and fully out you on the Internet.
Farm Manager Russell Armstrong showing visitiors the otter holt, before it is covered with soil, at The Co-operative's farm in Coldham, Cambridgeshire
Back in July 2010 farm Manager Russell Armstrong and otter expert, Cliff Carson, found evidence of otters through an otter spraint (otter droppings) on the riverbank at Coldham. This suggested that otters were in the area and led to The Co-operative Farms investing in an otter holt to help support the currently endangered river otter.
The holt was constructed in July by Cliff Carson, an environment officer from the Middle Level Commissioners, who are responsible for the environmental upkeep of the river at Coldham.
The holt is made using breeze blocks and paving slabs and is built to last 20 years or more. As it is built into the river bank all that is visible on completion are two entrance pipes at the waters edge. The holt has been installed with infrared cameras so that The Co-operative Farms can monitor any activity within the holt and ensure the holt is providing the best conditions for any otters choosing to move into it.
For more information go to www.co-operative.coop/farms/responsible-farming/biodivers...
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Title: Operative surgery, v.1
Creator: Bryant, Joseph D. (Joseph Decatur), 1845-1914
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and company
Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons
Contributor: Columbia University Libraries
Date: 1899
Vol: v.1
Language: eng
Description: Paged continuously
Plate printed on both sides
v. 1. General principles, anæsthetics, antiseptics, control of hæmorrhage. Treatment of operation-wounds, ligature of arteries. Operations on veins, capillaries, nervous system, tendons, ligaments, fasciæ, muscles, bursæ, and bones. Amputation, deformities. Plastic surgery.--v. 2. Operations on mouth, nose, and sophagus, the viscera connected with the peritonæum, the thorax and neck, scrotum and penis, and miscellaneous operations
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