You are here: Home>Search Search Currently displaying: 2 results You've searched for: Subject: "Domestic life" xSubject: "Co-operative society" x Search term Filter by Format Document (1)Audio Visual (1) Filter by Subject Working conditions (1)Local characters (1)Wolverton (1)Domestic life (2)Trade (1)Co-operative society (2)placemaking (1)communities (1) Filter by Decade 1970s (1) Sort by: RelevanceTitleOldestNewest Week 41: SHOPPING AS IT USED TO BE - THE HISTORY OF THE CO-OP IN WOLVERTON WOF/044 At one point there were 13 different Co-op stores in Wolverton selling groceries, furniture, meat, shoes, clothes, hardware, radios and TVs – just about anything you would need to live. This film tells the story of this shopping phenomenon. The Great Oak Society (17 September 1976) TRM/186 “Great oaks from little acorns grow” and a classic example are the Milton Keynes Co-operative Society. They began with threepenny-bits saved by working men. Today their turnover is reckoned in millions of pounds and they have just opened the first phase of a stores development in Bletchley whose cost, when completed next year, will also run ...