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I don't suppose the Co-op are called for royal funeral arrangements. They are closed on Bank Holiday Monday for the Queens funeral.
The Co-op still has many own brand products on its food shelves today but this leaflet is a reminder, not only of the many district Societies that made the movement up decades ago, but the fact that a much wider range of products were manufactured in a vast number of factories and production plants owned and operated by the Co-operative Wholesale Socity. The CWS's works spanned the UK and ranged from farms and estates, through food production works such as Crumpsall (Manchester) for biscuits, Irlam (Lancashire) for fats, Lowestoft (for canned products and fish), factories weaving cotton and woollen goods, corset making, hosiery as well as plants making paint, cycles, office equipment - even shoe polish and brushes at Pelaw, Hunslet (Leeds) and Wymondham (Norfolk). All that said I'm uncertain that they 'spun tobacco', even in the CWS tobacco and cigarette works in Manchester!
This leaflet has the feel of c1950 and plugs the fact that memebers owned, as they still do, the Societies they purchased from. Although advertising an exhibition under the auspices of the Huddersfield Society the leaflet is stamped "Hillhouse P F & I Society, Ltd.". This was typical of a small scale and very local Society, in this case in the suburbs of Huddersfield, and it went by the marvallous name of "Hillhouse Perseverance Friendly & Industrial Co-operative Society Ltd'. It appears to have traded independently until 1954 when it likely folded into the larger Huddersfield society. Amazingly a survivor of the name is till to be found on the gable of one of their stores in Fartown, Huddersfield.
On Saturday we went to visit Ruthven Park's Banding Station and between Net lanes 3 and 4 there were many co-operative Pearl Crescent Butterflies.
I know it's not Friday but I felt like posting one now
Thanks for all the birthday wishes yesterday everyone :D
now a mixture of residential and commercial units, this building was opened in 1897 as the headquarters of the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society
Women visiting village houses, collecting or delivering grain.
There is a co-operative system operating in these villages.
Nine months of the year are traditionally dry and the short 'monsoon' growing season has become less reliable.
Saffron and pink colours are popular for married women in rural Rajasthan.
Also silver ankle bracelets and rings.
The wonderful CWS (Co-operative Wholesale Society) used to have numerous works and factories to make a wide range of products. Amongst these were the products of the two brush works - at Hunslet in Leeds and Wymondham in Norfolk. In those days brushes were important - for household cleaning - and as here for shoe and boot polishing. This tin contained a set of brushes and various tins of polish. It dates, I suspect, to the period c1900 - 1914 and is wonderfully art-nouveau in style with the poppies framing the relief lettering and panels.
I could not sleep
For thinking of the sky
The unending sky
With all its million suns...
It's hot and dry these days, dusty and windy, and the sky is gigantic...I wouldn't mind if it stayed that way...
...and it'll always blow my mind how much some people dislike the thought of a big universe (or deep time), and what they're willing to do to intellectual integrity in order to get away from it as fast as possible. (This one's fun.)
What could be better than a frigging huge sky? Only one that's still getting huger...and that we're being hurled through like you wouldn't believe...yes, I'll settle for that : )
Introducing "Sandstorm", the first member of M.C.S.
Desert Commando: Sandstorm- Straight from the wild, rolling dunes of the Eastern deserts comes the first in our exclusive line of Modern Combat Operatives: Sandstorm, Desert Commando! Born the product of a troubled past, a terrorist, in fact, Sandstorm is familiar with the ways of the insurgent guerrillas that he now battles. As part of the M.C.S., Sandstorm fights alongside the world’s top soldiers, combating not only his foes of the physical realm, but his own past as well, striving to atone for his sins.
FILE CARD
Name: S. Fajad
Nationality: Iran
DoB: June 12, 1986
Specialization: Guerrilla Warfare
Skills: Camouflage, Desert Combat
Loadout: UMP .45 SMG with BD23 Silencer, Colt .45 Handgun, M19 Flash-Bang Grenade
Armor: B12 Combat Harness with SG100 Walkie-Talkie, BK1X Helmet with SD-23 Night Vision Assembly, JS1 Tactical Headset, G1 Pistol Belt
Description by Scipio Blade. Printed legs and heads by EclipseGrafix. Weapons and gear by Minifig.Cat
A lovely metal tin this, for what looks to have been a kind of tea loaf, although it must have been small as the tin isn't big - I wonder if it was an exhibition sample tin? The tin notes that it originated from the Crumpsall Bakery in Manchester that was for decades the main home of the Co-operative Wholesale Society's baking, cake and biscuit production.
Inflatable toys in a shop, Tongbong co-operative farm, North Korea
This shop is presented as the official shop for the village, but is so clean that it looks more like a fake shop displayed for visitors !
Buzz Co-operative's B293 KPF is a Leyland Tiger TRCTL11/3RH with Plaxton Paramount 3200 Express coachwork. It was new in 1985 as London Country TPL93 and later passed to Luton & District.
The first retail cooperative store to suceed and flourish was started in 1844 in Rochdale, a town covered by this directory as some of the entries show, but Manchester was home to the Co-Operative Wholesale Society. It's roots go back to 1863 when a large number of individual co-operative societies came together to create a single manufacturing and purchasing organisation from which they could source many of their goods and services. For most of its life the CWS was just that but in recent decades it has moved into retail services as many smaller individual societies struggled and effectively sought strength in numbers via the Co-Operative Retail Group directly under the CWS.
However at this date the entries give a good idea of the extent and bredth of the CWS's manufacturing and this was just in the Manchester area. The CWS's factories and farms were spread across England and Wales, there being a separate Scottish CWS although some products, notably tea, was 'jointly' procured.
Some of the well-known CWS products are seen here such as the Crumpsall biscuit works and the Jam factory (preserve works) at Middleton. But you can see they also brewed vinegar, made margarine and jam, milled flour, ran cotton mills and had extensive fresh produce undertakings. They even made their own umbrellas in Ardwick.
Also seen are the allied concerns of insurance, funeral services, printing and banking.
Mark Wylie on guitar, with Sydney Riley and Alexandra Berney.
OMCI / Canadian Musicians Co-operative, dress rehearsal for showcase concert, Barrie, Ontario, Canada.
This is a shot of the Beamish Museum Co-operative Stores and is the Hardware Department. This particular store was originally in the nearby town of Annfield Plain and dates back in part to 1870. It houses an original overhead Lamson Paragon Cash System in which hollow balls with the cash in them ran overhead on a rail system powered by gravity to the cashiers office for recording the transaction.
I wanted to keep the element of atmosphere that is apparent in all the buildings at Beamish and so I hand held this shot.
Eudunda Farmers’ Co-operative Society Ltd
The co-operative was established on the principles of the Rochdale Society in 1896, commencing as a group of traders in firewood, and meeting in a hotel parlour which was rent-free. The reasons for its establishment lie in the economic conditions of the 1890s.
Farmers used mallee roots as a means of getting ready cash. As the 1890s depression deepened, the storekeepers who were acting as middlemen, refused to pay in cash, insisting instead that the value of the wood be taken in goods. As a result Thomas Roberts suggested they trade directly on the Adelaide market and when this suggestion was agreed to a committee was established and a city representative appointed. While this venture was successful, farmers wanted more from the organisation and so the co-operative was established.
The first meeting was held in December 1895 at the Eudunda Hotel. The owner of the hotel, Mr E A Mann, was to become part of the Society's board of management.
The constitution and rules were adopted in January 1896. Activities commenced immediately with wood selling, and in December 1986 purchased their first store. Other stores followed in the next few years, often in response to local demands. The growth of the Society has continued over the years to the present time.
Ref: "The Patch to Prosperity" (a company history).
so I sculpted this morning during history, and I just finished the legs. I think the front of the legs to be kind of derpy, with the massive white dots and all, but oh well.
From a very lavish production, printed of course by the CWS's own Printing Works at Reddish, is a description of the new flagship department store for the huge London Co-operative Society in Hounslow that opened in 1958. The building that I suspect was at the eastern end of Staines Road has now I think been demolished. What seems to have been of especially interest was the "Starlight Room" restaurant pictured here with some amazing internal decorative features and I so hope they were saved but I strongly doubt it. The images dscrive the interior and show some of the sand-blasted mirrors showing the symbols of the Zodiac.
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.
From comments on Twitter - astonishingly this building was indeed demolished a few years ago - what happened to these fittings from the restuarant that apparently had a view from "Windsor to the South Downs" no one knows.