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The former Co-operative Society building pn Upper Parliament Street, above the main entrance. This part of the building was designed by William V Betts (1914-16) in terracotta. This shows painted sculptures of a sailor, seamstresses and a railwayman.
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An advert for the Co-Op's own product ranges seen in their own 'house' magazine "Producer", the trade journal issued by the Co-Operative Wholesale Society to the buyers of the many hundreds of individual Co-OP retail societies who sold the movement's own produced goods to the memebership. The CWS, owned by the retail socities themselves, produced and manufactured a vast range of products from a huge estate of farms, works and factories that covered everything from food, tea & coffee, tobacco to furniture, clothes, domestic appliances and household goods. By the 1980s most if not all these enterprises had been closed or disposed of.
This advert is for the Co-op's own brand marmalade, cheekily called "William of Orange" after the Dutch Prince of Orange who became King William III of England (William II of Scotland) in 1689. The CWS at the time had three preserve and jam works at Middleton (nr Manchester), Reading and Stockton and the advert shows the long lived Wheatsheaf logo.
We had gone for a drive to try to find a snow owl.
They are in the area but we haven't found one yet this year.
We still haven't found one.
Instead we found a very co-operative peregrine falcon in Point Edward at the mouth of the St. Clair River.
It sat one a sign and didn't seem to care that we were creeping closer and closer.
This shot was from about 90 feet.
Best look and best photo I've had of a peregrine.
Falco peregrinus
Powerful and fast-flying, the Peregrine Falcon hunts medium-sized birds, dropping down on them from high above in a spectacular stoop. They were virtually eradicated from eastern North America by pesticide poisoning in the middle 20th century. After significant recovery efforts, Peregrine Falcons have made an incredible rebound and are now regularly seen in many large cities and coastal areas.
The name "peregrine" means wanderer, and the Peregrine Falcon has one of the longest migrations of any North American bird. Tundra-nesting falcons winter in South America, and may move 25,000 km (15,500 mi) in a year. Maps of the migration of individual falcons determined by satellite telemetry can be seen at Environment Canada.
During its spectacular hunting stoop from heights of over 1 km (0.62 mi), the peregrine may reach speeds of 320 km/h (200 mph) as it drops toward its prey.
source -Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
For many years the Co-operative Wholesale Society, the provider of supplies and services to affiliated Co-operative retail societies, issued an annual that discussed affairs of the year, topics that involved or would be of interest to cooperators, and that included a round up of facts and figures about the CWS.
This double page shows the CWS owned industries and the CWS's productive works. As can be seen this vertically integrated organisation made a wide range of goods and services for sale as well as for running the Co-operative movement.
Like, try... operatives. Out to kill. : 3
Inspired by Ravager, Bowbrick, and tkaplan. Oh, and Wimbe. Can someone add him? I can't. (I don't care about a name change, I like the old one. : P )
-IronBricks
One of two adverts for the Hull Co-operative Society in the city's c1908 handbook and this gives clear reasons as to why membership of the Society was beneficial in many ways. It, of course, strongly echoes the ethos behind the foundation of the Rochdale Pioneers Co-operative Society, in the Lancashire town in 1844, and that is seen as the birth of the modern co-operative movement and particularly in regards to the member owned retail shop societies such as this in Hull. Most towns and localities had their own society - they had joint ownership in and of the Co-operative Wholesale Society in Manchester who provided many central services to individual societies.
The Hull Society was then based in Jarratt St and had a splendid head office store in the city centre that was wholly destroyed in the Hull Blitz during WW2. A new department store was constructed and opened in the early 1960s as part of the city's post-war reconstruction - no longer owned by the Society is survives and is noteworthy because of the "Three Ships" mosiac mural that has become a symbol of Hull. The advert, in many period typefaces, also shows a Corporation Telephone number - Hull being one of the few municipalities to own and operate its own phone service from 1904 (at the time in competition with the National TC that the PO would purchase) and the separate Kingston Communications still serves Hull.
The Petersburg Co-Operative Society Ltd was formed in 1906 and intially opened from the Diamond Jubilee Buidling until 1932 when it relocated to this large premises. The Co-Op Store continued operating here until it closed on the 15th of September 1965.
The Co-Op Store was a general store and stocked just about anything. Their motto printed in the member's book was "Let each man find his own in all men's good and work together in noble brotherhood." At one stage, the Co-Op had more than 650 members and traditionally held a social and dance every year for them.
The corner section was built in 1897 and originally had a verandah on the front and ide. The section alongside the Capitol Theatre was built in 1906 and was taken over by the Co-Op because of the need for more room. The original timber mullioned windows are still extant.
The mural on the side of the building depicts a scene from the Store in about 1935.
Peterborough, South Australia:
Peterborough was part of the Eldoratrilla Run from 1851 until the Hundred of Yongala was broken up for selection in 1871. Farm land was taken up in 1875 by a group of German settlers; Peter Doecke (after whom the town was named), Johann Koch, and Herman Rohde.
In 1880, while the railway was under construction from Port Pirie, Koch surveyed his land into town allotments and named it Petersburgh. The coast railway arrived from Port Pirie through Jamestown in February 1881, and the inland line from Burra through Terowie connected with it in May 1881, so within months of its foundation Petersburg - as the Post Office and South Australian Railways insisted on spelling it - became a major railway junction.
The town rose to prominence very quickly, and has remained the major population centre in the eastern half of the region. From its early development, Petersburg became a classic railway town in layout - like Gladstone and Quorn - with its main street parallel to the railway, and its principal hotels, banks, and commercial buildings clustered opposite the railway station. Petersburg's growth was assisted by the extension of the railway to Broken Hill in 1887, and by the construction of the Transcontinental Railway to Perth and the
Ghan line to Alice Springs in the early twentieth century, making it a strategic hub of the national railway network.
Under Railways Commissioner William Webb, a large railway maintenance workshop was built at Petersburg, and a suburb of railway workers housing went up at the western end of town, using innovative cast concrete construction techniques developed by Adelaide builder Walter Torode.
In 1918 the Nomenclature Committee renamed the town Peterborough, oblivious to the irony that its German founder had originally given it an English name, and it had only been
made to look German by a bureaucratic mis-spelling. During the 1930s depression, a gold crushing battery was built at Peterborough to encourage local mining. The town has lost most of its railway function since the 1970s, but remains an important regional centre.
Source: District Council of Peterborough, Heritage Of the Upper North, Volume 6 - District Council of Peterborough, page 115.
USCRG is a co-operative of around 800 farmers in Côte d’Ivoire that Nestlé has worked with since 2009 to develop improved farming practices and social conditions. Nestlé distributes around 30 000 plants a year and, together with ANADER, the National Extension Service for Rural Development, works with farmers to promote training in better farming practices that will increase the tonnage sourced. Since 2013, we have also built or refurbished eight schools, helping remove children from labour into education, while a gender action programme is helping to improve women’s income and give them a greater voice in the community.
A charming paper fan issued as an advertising and publicity 'give-away' by the Co-operative Wholesale Society and dating from the 1930s. The C.W.S. was the organisation run by the subscribing retail societies that produced central goods and services on behalf of the Movement and, as seen here, was a major owners of factories, works and estates producting a wide range of goods, from foods to products.
The fan shows five panels showing tea, jam, fish, coal and transport. The Co-op's tea estates in India were part of a joint underaking with the Scottish CWS but the Co-op did own its own collieries - as well as the Printing Works at Longsight in Manchester where this fan was printed and produced. Several preserve and jam factories were operated, including a major one in Middleton, Lancashire, and fish products were produced under the Waverney brand at factories in Lowestoft.
The back of the fan exhorts members to buy the products of the CWS and so enable greater dividend payments and shows the Wheatsheaf symbol that was a de facto 'logo' for the Movement reading 'labour and wait".
This building was the roundhose and machine shop for the CPR (Canadian Pacific Railway) from 1890 to 1939. In 1940 the , Canadian Co-operative Wool Growers Limited took over and cleaned-up the establishment. The Co-op grades and markets approximately 3 million pounds of raw wool each year.
Also within the building, there is now both the Real Wool Shop Boutique and Stockman Supply, which caters to the equestrian market. There is also a small Railway Display (Museum) in the building.
It's a long building taken with a wide angle, so the lines are a little flukey.
The Attymon Peat Co-operative leased both former BnM bogs near the town of Attymon for the production of peat turfs for the local domestic fuel market. Known as Clonkeenmore North and South bogs by BnM the APC tended to refer to them as Clonkeen bog (north) and Attymon bog (south). The Attymon bog had the main workshop and tip head and seeing as both sites were never connected by rail locos from Clonkeen would be brought by road to Attymon for any major servicing or repairs.
One of the oldest former BnM locomotives operated by APC is seen here in the drying shed yard Attymon tip head. This 4wDM was a Ruston type 48DL and was numbered LM17 (RH 242901/1946). It dated from the inception of Bord na Móna in 1946 being one of their first locomotives purchased, lower numbered locomotives tended to be those obtained from the Turf Development Board which BnM replaced in 1946. Up until 1954 numbering was on an ad-hoc local basis before the unified numbering scheme was adopted placing locos in numerical order by age with an LM prefix and with diesels starting at LM11.
From a very lavish production, printed of course by the CWS's own Printing Works at Reddish, is a description of the new Fullwell Branch self-service food shop of the Sunderland Co-operative Society that opened in 1958. 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.
This smart and simple three-bay single story construction is quite continental in style and has a plywood roof to 'afford uninterupped floor space'. The three sections appear to be greengrocery, grocery and a bakery. The images show a good if small range of products and an open appearance for the shopper and staff alike. You can make out some familiar products such as Dura-gilt wadding polish (well, familiar to me!) and the once "popular' Zebo grate polish, although the use wasn't so popular as cleaning stoves was a messy job! Nicer things are Co-op own brand jam and marmalade (2/10d a pound jar) and in the Bakery their own Shortcake biscuits alongside Yo-Yo chocolate ones!
I think this building survives having looked at Google - there is a three bay block at 82 Sea Road in Fulwell that contains a Subway store with what looks like a disintegrating plywood soffit...
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 Gateshead Co-operative Society that was scheduled to open in 1959. The elevations and facade are very much of their day, quite 'Festival of Britain in style, with what appears to be the use of textured concrete panels to break up the massing.
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.
CIA operative, Lance Corporate, is sent the message from "The Farm" to launch the intelligent torpedo at the enemies of The State...
In the Neverending War against Terror, Drugs, Green Peace and others who stand in the way of the calm exchange of goods for profit we continue to live thru the Nightmare of an Orwellian dreamscape...
With licence removed yet another of the numerous XVM batch of Volvo B10s rests up on "Death Row" at Lillyhall.
Cream terracotta faience was the choice for the new central premises of Stockport Industrial Co-operative Society in 1926. The design was by local architectural partnership Wrathmell and Blackshaw.
Photograph by Beth Hayes (P.H.S) Image kindly provided by Paul Swarbrick and Gillian Lawson of the Preston Historical Society. www.prestonhistoricalsociety.org.uk/
Fitzpatrick, Jim, 1916-
Title devised by cataloguer from caption on verso.; Condition: Good.; Part of the collection: Drouin town and rural life during World War II.; "U429/71. Milk carrier delivers filled cans from the farms to Drouin's co-operative milk factory. 850 farmers sell 32,000 gallons of milk a day to the factory; share it's profits. ..."--Printed on label.; Inscriptions: "Photo by Fitzpatrick ; U429/35" --In ink and pencil on reverse. "Paul Guillumette, Inc. 475 Fifth Avenue, New York City" --Stamped on reverse.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an24284437.
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Dark Operatives are some of the most elite, proficient and deadly things that could wake you from your drunken sleep in some motel room on a distant Outer Rim planet.
Were that metaphorically be the scenario, you would probably be, oh I don’t know, a certain political enemy of a certain Chancellor of a certain Grand Army of the Republic. Remember, this is in theory.
Anyway, they would wake you up. The brute would probably be the one to do the job, for effect. You would be awoke in a haze, trying to figure out what in the hell is going on, when you notice the brute with one of several heavy caliber weapons pointed at your head. He would utter some guttural noises, to which the smaller man, who was still hulking in size, would say “Not yet. Boss said wait.”
You would begin to mutter when the smaller man yelled “QUIET. Get up, NOW.” You struggle to your feet and the man tells you to go outside and when you go out you see several other soldiers dressed like your rousers. The man behind you talks to one of the others in a strange language, and then turns to you.” On your knees. Now.” he says. You begin to tell him where you’d like to shove your knee, when the Brute pistol whips you with one of his pistols.
You crumple to your knees and he tells you, “A certain someone wants you to disappear for a while. Tells us you’ve been starting some trouble. Now, he also tells us that you’ve done some interesting things. You sadistic chakaar. Now, after hearing this, we were MORE than happy to oblige in finding you. Wasn’t too hard. It’s time for you to leave.”
Your eyes get wider as he tells you this. When he finishes, you start to get up to bolt away, but something crashes against the back of your skull and you crumple to the ground. They carry you to their ship and you disappear forever, never to be seen again.
Now, a thing must be known about these “Dark Operatives”. Unofficially, they are Ex-Mandolorian soldiers who were dishonored or became wanted by their own people for extreme crimes. That means they can and WILL use every means necessary to find their targets. These are people of no morals. Officially….. They don’t exist……
Just some combinations. I need to grab some more colored-boonie hats..
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Birmingham Co-operative Society purchased over 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 Wythall. NVP 144 was chosen as it was originally a bakery van while ROA 127, which arrived in 1989, was remarkably original.
Restoration of 1954 built Morrison-Electricar D1 30cwt ROA 127 as a dairy truck, waited its turn in the restoration queue and was completed in 2013.
Austin 6cwt Van (1969) Engine 1098cc S4 OHV
Livery Dudley Co=Operative Society - TV and Radio Service
Registration Number WFD 890 H (Dudley)
AUSTIN SET
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Some of the last Morris Minor vans were badged Austin. Morris Minor versions of the van and the closed bed pick up were built from 1953 until the end of Minor production. Last generation of the Minor, mechanically similar to the cars, both with 48 bhp, but differed from the monocoque construction of the Saloon and Traveller in having a separate chassis, they also differed in detail such as telescopic rear dampers, stiffer rear leaf springs and lower ratio differentials.
The vans proved popular with the Post Office and those had rubber wings. and drum brakes retained throughout
This van was built at Adderley Park by Austin Motor Works in 1969 and finished in Persian Blue and sold by Evans+ Kitchen as a fleet sale to the Dudley Co-operative Society at Ninth Place, Dudley from where it was dispatched to Coach and Motor Works, Wolverhampton to receive its new red livery and from where it was registered in November 1969 as a TV Repair Van, A reorganisation of the Co-Operative in 1972, rebranded the Dudley Co-Operative Society as part of the Midland Cooperative Society Ltd, requiring the vehicles to carry the new Aqua Blue and White livery, and a transfer to the Grocery Department. The Dudle Cooperative finally closed in 1974. The van later went into private ownership and gained a dark blue livery
It has since had a full renovation and is restored to how it looked in 1969...
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Shot at the Black Country Car Show, Himley Hall 06.09.2015 Ref 106-916
Kidsin a school in Tongbong co-operative farm, North Korea
The korean describe this place as follow :
"The Tongbong Cooperative Farm in Hamju County, South Hamgyong Province, DPRK, is a model farm on the east coast of Korea.
In the past the farms on the east coast of Korea, contrary to those in the flat areas in the west coast, were regarded as places unsuitable for farming because of natural and geographical characteristics—severe cold-weather damage and small percentage of sunshine.
President Kim Il Sung visited the farm several times since November Juche 62 (1973) and taught one by one the farming methods suited to the natural and geographical characteristics of the areas on the east coast.
The leader Kim Jong Il visited the farm several times. He noted that the farm should introduce good strains of seed suited to its climatic and soil conditions, raise two crops a year and steadily increase the fertility of soil. Then he taught in detail how to apply advanced farming methods and technique.
Out of desire to live up to the concern and expectations of President Kim Il Sung and the leader Kim Jong Il with increased yield of grain, the farm makes agriculture intensive by selecting correctly high-yield varieties suited to its climatic and soil conditions and introducing advanced technique and methods into farming on the principle of sowing the right crop in the right kind of soil.
On the other hand it strives to increase the per-hectare grain yield. It makes its fields fertile by producing high-quality homemade manure, hukposan and organic compound fertilizers every year, does farming as required by the Juche methods of farming and increases the rate of operation of farm machines to the utmost.
The State ensured that the old houses were pulled down and modern houses with some living rooms, a kitchen and a washroom built in a short span of time.
Public establishments including a people’s hospital, schools, a house of culture and a shop were built or rebuilt in the farm. Now the farmers enjoy material, cultural and emotional life under the systems of free medical care and free education, feeling no envy at the urbanites.
The agricultural workers are devoting themselves to increased grain production, true to the plan of the Workers’ Party of Korea to bring about a radical turn in the people’s standard of living by accelerating the development of light industry and agriculture."
We had a very different feeling when we visited the place, even if the speech of our guide was exactly following the text above !!!
Here we see another Co-op variation - this time East of England Co-op with a livery not dissimilar to that of the Midcounties Co-operative utilising a bright green and dark grey, but it is certainly different.
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I have to say I quite like this variation. This was previously a Jet site for many years and was Potters Service Station but I'm not sure it now is. There used to be a John Grose Ford dealership next door too, but that site is empty and To Let in the most recent Streetview.
Whilst the pumps are the same models the carwash has been modified, actually replaced by the looks of it, certainly the brushes have changed colour - I'm not an expert at all!
Below you can see it was it was as a Jet site and the two eras of carwash can be compared along with all the other details.
www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.2168269,1.3435365,3a,75y,163.65...
Putting in way too to much effort to recreate an old promotional image form the film, lol, still I hope you like it!
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