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Pale blue is the corporate colour for the co-operative pharmacies, contrasting with the lime green across the road of the food shop.
Got a 934 bus from Birmingham to Walsall and saw this Coffee Republic after I got off.
It's inside of The Co-operative Food.
The building is on Bridge Street in Walsall and used to be a Tesco Metro until before 2015.
Sister Dora Buildings, 9 The Bridge, Walsall.
The first Coffee Republic I've been to since the one in Birmingham closed down in 2017.
My drink and toastie was only £3.99!
Title / Titre :
Farmers' Co-operative Creamery, Moncton, New Brunswick /
Crémerie des fermiers – coopérative (Farmers' Co-operative Creamery), Moncton (Nouveau-Brunswick)
Creator(s) / Créateur(s) : Unknown / Inconnu
Date(s) : Unknown / Inconnu
Reference No. / Numéro de référence : MIKAN 3306303
collectionscanada.gc.ca/ourl/res.php?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&...
Location / Lieu : Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada / Moncton, Nouveau-Brunswick, Canada
Credit / Mention de source :
Canada. National Film Board of Canada. Still Photography Division. Library and Archives Canada, PA-048811 /
Canada. Office national du film du Canada. Service de la photographie. Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, PA-048811
One of many such 'give-away' items produced by the Co-operative Wholesale Society, the production arm of Britain's many co-operative retail societies, that would have been handed out at events or stores. It is a small format booklet, cheaply printed, with a colour cover showing a packet of the C.W.S. Sutox brand of shredded beef suet and pages of recipes using the ingredient. The booklet was, of course, printed at the CWS's own printing works at Longsight in Manchester.
Beef suet was a common larder commodity even in my childhood days and, for my family in Lancashire, a staple of many meals especially suet puddings and dumplings. As the booklet says; Suet for health and nourishment.
Compstall Co-operative Industrial Society Limited, Marple Bridge Branch of 1892. The building has now been converted to apartments.
The Co-operative’s own-brand Scotch whiskies have scooped a number of awards in international competitions.
Find out more at www.co-operative.coop/food/whats-hot/Food-news/Whisk-to-T...
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.
Storefront with an uncommon choice of a cedar shake roofed awning in Cortland. This is across the street from the Harrington Brothers shop. It wasn't clear if that shoe repair shop was still in business.
This is 118 - 120 Colmore Row. Currently it is The Co-Operative Bank. It is next door to Lloyds TSB (next door to the left) and Hudson's Coffee House (next door to the right).
Nos. 118-120 is entertaining but mongrel stucco Italianate of c. 1875.
From Pevsner Architectural Guides: Birmingham by Andy Foster
118 - 120 Colmore Row is a Grade II listed building.
Late C19. Stucco. Three storeys; 6 bays, the outer 2 broader and slightly advanced. Ground floor with arched entrances with flanking coupled pilasters and, centrally, 4 segment-headed windows. First and second floors with arched window except those of the 2nd floor outer bays. Coarse detailing and listed for group value only.
118 - 120 Colmore Row - Heritage Gateway
On the left is 114 - 116 Colmore Row. On the right is 122 - 124 Colmore Row.
A scarce Irish-made mug showing the official badge of the CATHOLIC GUIDES of IRELAND (CGI) and displays their motto BI ULLAMH (Be Ready). I've been unable to find another example of this mug for sale on the internet or having been sold recently and believe it is very scarce, at the least.
The CGI were established in 1928 as Clanna Bride and in 1933 changed their name to the Bantreoraithe Catoilici na hEireann (Catholic Guide of Ireland). Maybe this mug was produced to commemorate the 50th anniversary or golden jubilee of the CGI in 1983?
www.girlguidesireland.ie/about-cgi (About the Catholic Guides of Ireland).
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Carrigdhoun Co-Op was originally established in 1928 as the Carrigaline Pottery and since, has changed ownership and name a number of times.
1928 - 1980 Carrigaline Pottery Ltd (Hoddie Roberts, 1878-1952).
1980 - 1983 Cork Art Pottery (Lutz Kiel).
1983 - 1990 Carrigdhoun Pottery Co-Operative Society Ltd (former employees of Cork Art pottery & Carrigaline Pottery).
1990 - 1995 Carrigdhoun Pottery Co-Operative Society Ltd (taken over by Oxford Ceramics - Oxford Porcelanas of Brazil).
1995 - 2003 Carrigdhoun Pottery Co-Operative Society Ltd (taken over by Stephen Pearse after buying up 90% of the shares. Production ceased in June of 2003 and both the company and its sales shop were closed in September 2003.)
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DESCRIPTION:
Size: 3 1/8” high x 3 3/16” O.D. excluding the handle (79mm x 81mm).
Material(s): white earthenware with an overall clear glaze.
Imprint: CARRIGDHOUN CO OP IRELAND and a sprig of shamrocks.
Approximate age: 1983 to 1990.
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1.
In The Hive 02:09
2.
The Mind Projector 01:51
3.
I Had a Vision 03:27
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Glass Utopia 06:20
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Violated 04:24
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The Tree Transmission 03:17
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A Visit From The Brain Police 05:46
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Escape From The Hive 04:33
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Desolate Landscape 03:57
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about
Operative 13 is a servile drone in a giant organism known as The Hive.
All independent thought or free will has been consigned to history, and Nature is something that can only be viewed in archives. During one work period, his mundane repetitive toil is disturbed by a vision of a solitary tree that appears briefly in his mind, bringing with it a strange solace. It then disappears, only to intermittently return. He is perturbed by this unusual occurrence and relieved when his shift is over.
In the Forbidden Sector outside the city boundaries, an unknown person has constructed a Mind Projector, which is transmitting the tree image. The projector is using the image to identify any brain that still contains dormant wave receptors and can therefore receive this frequency. After many fruitless months the seeker finally finds a match.
Operative 13 returns home via the city centre’s hedonism palace, known as Glass Utopia, a shimmering monument to progress and collective subservience, where citizens can avail themselves of all the pleasures known to man, but the vision experience has perturbed him too much to indulge. He saves his credits and returns to his residence pod, where he spends an evening in turmoil, feeling mentally violated.
The tree transmission is also a key, capable of opening up the mind of any compatible recipient, allowing them to receive all the lost knowledge of humankind in an intense controlled blast. The broadcast is sent and the brain on the receiving end is Operative 13’s.
The unusual activity in The Hive has not gone undetected and Operative 13, now an enlightened and highly evolved being, receives a visit from the Brain Police. Despite their intensive scans and probes they are unable to detect any subversive or renegade thought, as Operative 13 has constructed a mental wall. They leave finally without an arrest but far from satisfied.
Escape from The Hive is the only option, and with his enhanced intelligence he navigates the air-vents, sewers and security points, only to find a desolate landscape outside.
Some miles away from the city, Operative 13 encounters the Right Honourable Viscount Spoons, and his manservant Mr. Grumpy, who invite him to stay for afternoon tea from Mr Grumpy’s Magic Teapot, but he must continue to the source of the transmission.
He eventually finds the Tree Transmitter, he finally made it. It is in a makeshift camp with a population of one; a beautiful girl who is the distillation of all his desires, The Girl You Cannot See…and roll credits.
Co-operative Travel win Holiday Extras Customers' Award for Best UK Travel Agent. Holiday Extras partnerships development manager Rebekah England (left) presents the award to Julie Gibson, head of commercial and marketing and Sue Reid (right) general manager travel and distribution at Midcounties Co-operative.
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West Calder Co-operative Society moveable date stamp.
West Calder Co-operative Society was opened for business in 1875 by workers from the local shale mines and oil works. West Calder became part of West Lothian Co-operative Society in 1969 which in turn became part of Scottish Midland Co-operative Society Limited in 1982. The Society opened various branches in nearby villages, such as Tarbrax.
West Lothian Council Museums Service. http://www.westlothian.gov.uk/tourism/museumsgalleries/ums/information.
Copyright: West Lothian Council Museums Service.
If you would like more information about this object, please contact: museums@westlothian.gov.uk, quoting
WLDCM1994.012.001.
This is the former Co-operative department store that stands on the corner of Station Street and Main Street in Long Eaton, Derbyshire. I don't know anything about the building's history, but I can tell you that today it's home to United Carpets and Beds.
Where is it? maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&q=long+eaton&ie=UTF8...
Source: livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/11844
Academic staff of three Schools of the University have been working together to assist
a Hunter Valley school in its efforts to establish a 'Health Promoting School'.
The Schools of Health, Medicine and Education have been working co-operatively to help Kurri Kurri Public School develop approaches to creating a greater awareness of health issues, particularly of heart health through an innovative curriculum for Year 6 school students.
The initiative is in response to parent requests for health education programs to be conducted in conjunction with the curriculum and are to be linked with the school canteen in an effort to provide healthier food choices. Local community groups are offering their support of the program. A $500 donation for development has been provided by the Alcan Aluminium Smelter.
The program was launched recently by the Mayor of Cessnock, Alderman Maree Callaghan. Support for the program was provided by the University's Department of Health and Physical Education. Students John Russell, a member of the Newcastle
Breakers Soccer Team; Jane Nixon, under 21 Hockey Representative and Mark Curry, Australian Country Cricket Representative, provided examples of games which are fun to play and which form a basis for a healthy lifestyle.
The program is currently being evaluated, with pre-testing underway at Kurri Kurri public School. A control is being conducted at Telarah Public School. The Department of Health and Physical Education is coordinating the health related fitness testing which is being supervised by lecturer, Dr Ashley Woodcock. Student attitudes to health and their self-reported behaviours are being measured by a questionnaire developed by Dr Ron Plotnikoff from the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics within the School of Medicine. Gains in knowledge are being monitored by Mr Phil Williams from the Department of Holistic Health. Phil, who is co-ordinating the University involvement, says that community involvement in the program is high. He says that the Coalfields Healthy Heartbeat Project and the Newcastle Branch of the Heart Foundation are working together to provide a range of programs which have been requested by parenrts of Year 6
students.
"These range from courses which provide skills for selecting and preparing low fat foods, exercise and stop smoking programs," Phil says. "I believe the co-operation and participation by Kurri Kurri Public School, the local community and the University Schools of Health, Medicine and Education is unique. Even though the project is still
in its pilot phase, I anticipate that the ideas and principles generated will be disseminated to other schools in the area: he says.
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At the welcome reception are Eric Calderwood, Director of the Co-operative Group and of Co-operatives UK; Louise Scott, founder of mediaco-op; Willie Coffey MSP, Co-convenor of the Cross Party Group in the Scottish Parliament on Co-operatives; and Stephen Kelly, co-founder of Highland Wholefoods and chair of Co-operation and Mutuality Scotland.
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.
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.
Co-op buildings in Tamworth.
This is The Co-operative Bank at 8 Colehill.
Grade II listed.
TAMWORTH
SK2004SE COLEHILL
670-1/7/63 (East side)
09/11/72 Nos.8 AND 9
(Formerly Listed as:
COLEHILL
No.9)
GV II
Two houses, now shops. c1820. Brick with ashlar dressings;
slate roof with brick cross-axial stack. Double-depth plan.
Georgian style.
3 storeys; 6-window range. 1st floor sill band and top
cornice; central brick pilaster. Ground floor has late C19
shop front to No 8, with polished granite plinth, windows with
slender colonnettes and small-paned upper glazing bowed to 2
recessed entrances, large fascia and canopy; late C20 shop
front to No 9 has triangular-headed central entrance and
panelled doorcase with pedimental gable, fanlight and glazed
door. 1st and 2nd floor windows have rusticated wedge lintels
with keystones over 4-pane horned sashes, those to 2nd floor
smaller, with sills. No 8 included for group value.
(Hamel E B: Illustrations of Tamworth, facsimile reprint:
Tamworth: 1986-: 14 AND 15).
Listing NGR: SK2089404076
THE WORSHIPFUL SOCIETY OF FREE MASONS, ROUGH MASONS, WALLERS, SLATERS, PAVIORS, PLAISTERERS AND BRICKLAYERS
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.
New co-op store in Northfield, Birmingham, due to open late July 2011
uploaded for Co-operative fortnight 2011
A finely made membership badge of the Brighton Equitable Co-operative Society (BECS). During the 1920’s there were nine Junior Guilds catering for children 7 to 14 years of age and who organised children’s activities, competitions, sports days, plays etc. to encourage and retain their membership.
The Brighton Equitable Co-operative Society was opened on the 1st January 1888 with some 200 members and in May of the same year opened their first store at 32 North Road in Brighton. Membership numbers rose steadily with just under 1,000 in 1900 and 4,414 members by 1914. With the amalgamation of other Sussex Co-Op societies, membership of the BECS rose to over 10,000. The 1920’s and 30’s saw a huge expansion in the operations of the Co-operative movement, especially amongst the poorer and lower income people. In 1931 the BECS opened their new headquarters and flagship store on the London Road, Brighton.
In contrast to modern supermarkets and major retail outlets, the Co-operative Movement was interested in its members not only as consumers but also as members of society. So the Co-Ops involved its members in clubs or guilds (see badge links below) and this philosophy extended to their children too.
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References:
archiveshub.ac.uk/features/christmas-southeastretailgroup... (An outline history of the CWS South-East retail Group that includes a paragraph about the Junior Guilds).
www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/page_id__7946.aspx (The growth of the Co-operative Movement including a section on the Brighton Equitable Co-Operative Society).
www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/page_id__8219_path__0p115p21... (Pictures of the BECS main store on the London Road, Brighton – as it was in the 1930’s and as it is today).
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Enamels: 2 (blue & white).
Finish: Gilt.
Material: Brass.
Fixer: Pin.
Size: 1” across x 1 1/8” down (about 25mm x 28mm).
Process: Die stamped.
Makers: No maker’s name or mark.
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Thank you for reading.
Stuart.
A few years later than the earlier design and a more striking graphic image appears on this BECS - Brighton Equitable Co-operative Society - flour bag.
Liverpool Co-operative Society, Branch number 128, Pilch Lane, Liverpool.
A typical suburban Co-op store of the time.
Very up to date--"self service"!
Photo 1955.
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.
An earlier building of the Royal Arsenal Co-operative, Powis Street, Woolwich. Is the figure Holyoake? Each for all and all for each.... The profits were returned to the society members, rather than exported to tax havens or dumped into the bank accounts of the already rich. I didn't have the rght lens at the time, and have clipped the ......Halls part of the tableau. Century? Centenary?