Just for George

This photograph is repeated to save you searching through pages of threads.  If I am able to turn up any further information I will of course post it to the Forum.

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Robert,

Is that photo taken on Wharf Road?

As George has advised me, the Co-operative College in Manchester maintains archives of the Co-operative movement.  They have told me that the Furness Vale Co-operative Society was registered in 1876 and merged with the Whaley Bridge Society in 1890.  I have not yet been given the date of merger with the Buxton Co-op.  The College is unable to trace any records of the Furness Society but those of the Whaley Bridge & Buxton are held at the Derbyshire Records Office in Matlock where perhaps I shall continue my research. 

New Mills Token fairley high value £1

New Mills Co - op of course operated in Chapel as well at Smithbrook on the left just past the current Morrisons site.

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There is an excellent history of the New Mills Co-operative Society at

http://www.newmillshistory.org.uk/nl36.pdf

Thank you all for your postings and especially David. this information raises a number of questions and comments about the Co-op.

posting no.2 The sign for the Gala looks to me to be dated 1910, this is the same year as the Jubilee, being 50 years since the Co-operative Society in Whaley Bridge was first formed. A plate and a decorated tray cloth /tea towel was given to mark the occasion. Do you know who the man on the photo is? Please thank the old gentleman and his friend for the contribution.

Posting number 5 The Co-operative College  was Stanford Hall near Loughborogh before it was moved to smaller premises in Manchester and a lot of changes have taken place over the years. When I contacted Manchester they informed me the records were held at the D.C.C. records office at Matlock. however when I phoned them they said they only had the minutes of the General Board from 1964 to 1968 and the minutes of the Education Committee for many decades, this was the case when I went over to look at them. The Chief Executer Officer Mr. Alfred Jackson retired in 1964 and was replaced by a man called Ledger until the Society was taken over/merged with Manchester and Salford Society in 1968. Consequently a lot of the old records seemed to have dissapeared, I hope you have better luck David in your investigations.

Posting Numer 7 Presumably the other advantages of milk tokens were to reduce the dishonesty of milkmen and the members would get the all important "divi" on purchases.

I would be interested in knowing when the Co-op block on Buxton road, just by the river, was built or the Co-op first occupied it. Prior to 1950/1953 the building comprised the grocery shop, just where first two windows were from the river next the archway where deliveries were made and I think the orders were dispatched from. Continuing from the left was the furnishing/hardware next, menswear and finally the butchers.

Now i'm going for a cup of tea.

george   

George

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I have tried enlarging the windows and changing the contrast.  The lettering is still not very clear.  CWS PELAW is visible and perhaps that advertises shoe polish.  Looks like CONFECTIONARY or is it COFFEES  and TEAS in the left hand window.

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G.J. & George

I think that Wilds used to slaughter behind the shop when it was trading on Beech Road, also Norman Heathcote slaughtered his own and for others behind the shop on Market Street, now used by Jeremy Unsworth he refused to comply with the new rules brought in in later years associated with the slaughter trade and gave up that part of the business, although his cousins in Bollington continued to slaughter for many around the area including Chatsworth Farm shop, also Co - op Drapers was on the other side of the road now occupied by the Cycle shop.

The Photo attached I was told many years ago was JJ Heathcote Bollington, taken outside the bottom shop in Bollington, but I have since seen it published with a different name attributed to it, so more research needed I think.

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