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Co-operative House, opened on 2 January 1897 as the headquarters of the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society. Glasgow's very own statue of liberty too
What a shame no artist or designer is shown for this colourful cover. It must have been a breath of fresh air (even a cold one) in the greyness of austerity, post-war Britain that was still slowly coming to an end in 1949. Issued by the Bristol Co-operative Society, the 'Home Magazine', incorporating the Wheatsheaf Magazine, was I think available to most co-op societies, simply locally overprinted.
At the top of the former bakery building in Sutton Road, City of Southend-On-Sea, Essex.
The beehive symbol with bees buzzing around it was first used by the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers and went on to be used by other co-operative societies. It is supposed to represent values and principles. The wording on the plaque has the date 1921 and says that H.E. Tufton was the architect and surveyor. He appears to have worked in those roles for the Co-operative movement.
The building now converted to flats with a small convenience store.
I quite like this old co-operative building which then became a Mainline taxi office before getting abandoned. Salford, Greater Manchester, England.
One huge mistake though is leaving my new Shoei GT Air in the shot....oops :-(
Update April 2017 - this now seems to have been demolished
Custom built to fit an odd shaped site, and facing in to the layout will be this Co-operative department store. I have 'borrowed' the architecture from a Co-op store in the north-east of the country and applied signage from the local society.
Today I have given the windows some simple displays and addled my brain with some 3D geometry to provide a roof!
Birmingham Co-operative Society purchased more than 700 Morrison-Electricars. Most were for the dairy department but BCS also offered deliveries of bread and a laundry service to your home. The bakery and laundry services were early victims of supermarket growth and many of the surviving vans were rebuilt into dairy trucks.
These Morrisons were tough and many were later modernised with new glass fibre cabs and bodies. By 1988 only a few remained with the old cabs and two were kindly selected for the Transport Museum at Wythall. NVP 144 was chosen as it was originally a bakery van, also on display in the museum, while ROA 127, which arrived in 1989, was remarkably original.
Restoration of 1954-built ROA127 as a dairy truck, was completed in 2013. It has a 72 volt battery with a 6.8k w motor. It has a capacity of 30 cwt.
The museum acquired its first battery-electric road vehicle in 1986. Since then an important collection of over 30 of these vehicles has been established with a sustained restoration programme. The collection portrays a number of dairies and bakeries now lost to the big corporates. A little known fact is that Morrison-Electricar became part of the British Motor Corporation.
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Chain-stitch wool embroidered cushion-cover, acquired from the local Womens' Co-operative Craft Shop in the village.
Private collection.
C-FDXQ, a Basler BT-67, at Oshawa Executive Airport in Oshawa, Ontario.
Serial number 64 began its career as a Douglas C-47A (serial number 13342) with the United States Army Air Forces in May 1944. It was converted into a BT-67 by Basler Turbo Conversions, LLC at Oshkosh, Wisconsin in 2013.
During Canadian winters, it is operated for White Desert Ltd. of London, England by ALCI Aviation Ltd. of Oshawa. White Desert operates adventure tours on Antarctica.
Fifty years ago, this aircraft was operated as CF-OOW by Atlas Aviation Ltd. at Resolute, Northwest Territories - 1,055 statute miles/1,700 kilometres from the North Pole.
C-GSXC, a Dassault Falcon 10 of Air Nunavut Ltd., is parked behind the BT-67. Serial number 168 first flew on July 17, 1980.
Droylsden formed its own industrial Co-operative Society in December 1861, with 71 members and £104 4s 1d. The Society thrived and in 1876 it opened this large meeting hall above shop facilities. The architects were John Eaton & Son. In more recent times it has been used as a nightclub but is currently empty.
Trying some multiple vendor combos. What do you think?
If you fave, please comment, it is well appreciated.
The antique wooden net float is from the Union Fishermen's Co-operative Packing Company of Astoria, Oregon.
I bought it at the Clatsop County Historical Society's Heritage Museum. Until then, I had never been in a historical museum where pieces of history were for sale in the gift shop. This is something to be encouraged.
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Union Fishermen's Cooperative Packing Company
By Greg P. Jacob
(From The Oregon Encyclopedia)
In Astoria in 1897, some 200 gillnet fishermen formed the Union Fishermen's Cooperative Packing Company (Union Fish). The enterprise grew out of two years of disputes between gillnetters and local fish packers over salmon prices and fishing practices.
By the mid-1880s, people were already calling Astoria the fishing capital of the world because of the huge catches of salmon being hauled from the river. In 1874, the first fish cannery opened in town; six years later, there were fourteen canneries; and by 1883, thirty-nine canneries operated along the lower Columbia River. More than 630,000 cases of salmon were packed in 1883, the equivalent of 43 million pounds.
In this setting, the canneries and the fishermen became engaged in an economic power struggle. Among the fishers and cannery workers, there was a saying: "A salmon head is worth a buck but a man's head is worth nothing." Some fishermen claimed that the canneries amassed huge profits by keeping the prices to the fishermen low and by selling inferior fish to the public under the fancy spring Chinook label. Cannery managers claimed they were struggling to survive in a competitive market for canned salmon.
In 1895, Columbia River Fisherman's Protective Union members, many of them foreign-born and most of them Finnish, demanded that the canneries pay them no less than five cents a pound for Chinook salmon. Initially, the cannery owners had offered four and a half cents a pound but then reneged on their offer, further embittering the fishermen. In 1896, the fishermen went on strike after being offered less than the year before, and the cannery operators called in the National Guard to break the strike. That same year, some two hundred fishermen organized the Union Fishermen's Cooperative Packing Company in hopes of ensuring a fair return for their catch. Matt Korpela, a founder of Union Fish, gave this account in 1945:
"After we had patiently and faithfully endured the struggle of strike we ran out of food. Then we were forced to go fishing at the price the canneries offered, four and one-half cents. But when the canneries had got us fishing on the river they lowered the price almost immediately down to two cents a pound and set a limit of 500 lbs for each boat....Some gave up fishing, and others fished at the set price as there was no other work available at that time. The strike...was a learning experience in the rights of the fishermen. The unanimous decision...was 'Let's build our own cannery.'"
Each of the 200 men put in a hundred dollars from his savings, and together they purchased a cannery site in Astoria on Basin Street. There they erected a 50-by-200-foot plant, complete with adjoining boat moorages and net racks. Because of the cooperative structure of the company, each fisherman "received not so much for each fish he delivered, but his share of the company's proceeds."
During the second season of the cannery's operation, the Cooperative marketed two labels, "Gillnetters Best" and "Cooperators Best," which became leading brands of Columbia River salmon. In the third year, Union Fish started mild-curing (pickling) salmon, and in 1903, the board of directors authorized construction of a cold storage plant. Union Fish continued to do well as it extended its operations to the coast, Grays Harbor, and up the Columbia River to Ellsworth, Washington, near where I-205 crosses the Columbia today.
Throughout its first fifty years of operation, Union Fish supported developing hatchery programs, rehabilitating fish runs, reducing pollution, and promoting research in the preparation of new fisheries products. Ed Niska, who was a fish biologist for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, praised the "firm's practical leadership experience in the competitive enterprise of processing and marketing fish."
The Union Fishermen's Cooperative remained a fishermen-owned business until 1950, when it was sold to Seattle fishing magnate Nick Bez of Peter Pan Seafoods. The old Union Fish cannery is now the site of the Cannery Pier Hotel.
www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/union_fishermen_s_coo...
Having infiltrated Vance Wingfields operation, Rock&Roll and Short Fuze have earned their way up in rank. Now, Scarface has a message for the two undercover Joes.
*Pulled from the pages of GI JOE: FIRST SALVO by BILL NEDROW. If you have not read it, I highly recommend it.
One Angel Square is an office building in Manchester, England. Construction work began in 2010 and was completed in February 2013. The landmark building is the head office of the Co-operative Group. Standing 72.5 metres (237.8 feet) tall, the building forms the centrepiece of the new £800 million NOMA development in the northern quarter of Manchester city centre. The building cost at least £105 million to construct and was sold on leaseback terms in 2013 for £142 million.
One Angel Square is one of the most sustainable large buildings in Europe and is built to a BREEAM 'Outstanding' rating. It is powered by a biodiesel cogeneration plant using rapeseed oil to provide electricity and heat. The structure makes use of natural resources, maximising passive solar gain for heat and using natural ventilation through its double-skin facade, adiabatic cooling, rainwater harvesting, greywater recycling and waste heat recycling.
The building's distinctive form has been compared to a sliced egg and a ship. Its design was announced by architects 3DReid in May 2009 and construction began in July 2010 with a projected completion date in March 2013. In December 2012, the scheme surpassed its pan-European sustainability aims and achieved a world-record BREEAM score of 95.32%, It is also an energy-plus building, producing surplus energy and zero carbon emissions. The building has received numerous awards for its striking aesthetic and sustainability aims.
A description of the works undertaken by the Yorkshire Hennebique Contracting Company for the Leeds Industrial Co-Operative Society at St. Peter's Wharfe in the city. It was the second of two similar schemes - in 1931 was upstream at the Victoria Bridge Wharf.
The works involved a new wharf frontage, with concrete piles driven 6ft below river bed level. The crane was supplied by Joesph Booth's of Rodley and the grabs were from Priestman Bros. of Hull. The bunkers fed either the six bagging hoppers that fed 17 outlets or two gravity hoppers from which 4-ton lorries could be loaded. The coal came in by barge on the River Aire and the site, as can be seen from the photograph, was adjacent to The Calls with St. Peter's Church in the background. The Co-op were large suppliers of domestic coal and even, at times, owned collieries themselves through the CWS.
The wharf is long gone now being the site of modern structures.
Most operatives work by themselves, so they get all the money, right?* These two work together, as buddies though. They would never betray one another.
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*I know nothing about operatives, okay? Go easy on me. ; )
Lame backstory is lame.
Figs inspired by Yappen and background inspired by Bowbrick's STEEL. I finally got snow to take pictures in. : D
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Co-operative society emblem on the former Co-op drapery store on the corner of Higher Bridge St & St George's Rd, Bolton. The building dates from 1904 and the terracotta work on the frontage is all the product of Henry Dennis' Hafod Red Brick Works at Ruabon.
Hine, Lewis Wickes,, 1874-1940,, photographer.
Some operatives in An Indianapolis Cotton Mill at the Noon Hour. Aug. 1908. Wit. E.N. Clopper. Location: Indianapolis, Indiana.
1908 August.
1 photographic print.
Notes:
Title from NCLC caption card.
Attribution to Hine based on provenance.
In album: Mills.
Hine no. 9.
For reference access, please use the digital item to preserve the fragile original item.
Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Forms part of: National Child Labor Committee collection.
Subjects:
Textile mill workers.
Women.
Cotton industry.
Mills.
United States--Indiana--Indianapolis.
Format: Photographic prints.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For information see: "National Child Labor Committee (Lewis Hine photographs)," hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/res.097.hine
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: National Child Labor Committee collection (DLC) 2004674308
General information about the National Child Labor Committee collection is available at: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.nclc
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/nclc.01309
Call Number: LOT 7479, v. 1, no. 0009
A folded cardboard sleeve taht would have contained an electric lamp bulb and that was manufactured by the "British Luma Co-operative Electric Lamp Society Limited" who are probably best recalled as 'Luma". The Society was an unusual joint international Co-op venture between the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society and the Swedish CWS and the concern opened a very 'modern' style works in Hardgate Road, Glasgow, in 1939 - not an auspicious year for international ventures. Lamp manufacturing was a famously industry 'controlled' business with many secretative national and international cartels and price fixing agreements.
The striking factory, designed by architect Cornelius Armour and that featured a glass fronted staircase tower that was used to test lamps thus illuminating the tower, still stands although it has been many years since it was producing lamps. After a period in use as a caravan showroom it was converted to residential accomodation in 1996.
Presented for novelty value rather than photographic prowess, taken with a cheap Halina 35mm loaded with Kodachrome film and shot in overcast conditions. This contraption a 50hp 4-wheel chain driven diesel mechanical loco built by the Motor Rail & Tramcar Co.Ltd at Bedford (W/No.9909 of 1958) was barely 13 years old when photographed in the private siding of the London Co-Operative Society Ltd at Watford coal yard on 7 February 1971. It certainly looked much older to me then. I recall that the siding was located off the St.Alban's line. The door-to-door containers behind are also not without interest.
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... knows how much thigh to show a Congressman ;)
(Me, in the lobby of the Hyatt Hotel... just "doin' my job" ;))
Through its subsidiary Associated Co-operative Creameries (ACC), the Cooperative Wholesale Society was a major player in the UK milk industry until the sale of its assets to Cheshire-based Dairy Farmers of Britain in 2004. ACC had been a subsidiary of the North Eastern Co-operative Society based in Gateshead and assumed nationwide responsibility for milk production and distribution within the CWS following its acquisition of the previously separate regional co-operatives in1992. Its distinction blue and white vehicles could be seen collecting fresh milk from local farms, and delivering the processed product to wholesale and retail customers. I have no evidence that the company operated Scanias but this fictional two-axle 111 is typical of the smaller tankers used for collecting milk from farms with restricted access. Thanks to Martin Vonk for the base image (17-Dec-18).
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Decided to give my desert op an upgrade with some of the loot I got for Christmas and Birthday.
Original fig: www.flickr.com/photos/_jkc_/7647574254/in/photostream
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