You are here: Home>Search Search Currently displaying: 5 results You've searched for: Subject: "Trade" x Search term Filter by Collection All Change (1)That Reminds Me (1) Filter by Format Audio (1)Document (3)Audio Visual (1) Filter by Subject Wolverton Works (1)Working conditions (1)Local characters (1)Wolverton (2)Women at work (1)Domestic life (1)Trade (5)Co-operative society (2)Trade unions (1)Holiday (1)General strike (1)1920s (1)placemaking (3)communities (3) Filter by Decade 1970s (4) Sort by: RelevanceTitleOldestNewest Interview about Wolverton, the Co-operative Society and the Wolverton Works. ALC/001/001 TB recalls the early history and management structure of the Wolverton Co-operative Society, its first shop in Church Street, the society’s later expansion, its committees and its amalgamation due to the building of Milton Keynes. He refers to the ideology behind the formation of the co-operative society and its inner workings. The minutes of the ... 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. Gold Money You Could Bank On (2 December 1974) TRM/096 When I was a boy the old people around me did not wholly trust the Bank of England’s £1 and ten shilling notes which had been issued in great numbers at the beginning of the 1914-18 war. They much preferred sovereigns and half-sovereigns. If it had been possible, they would have done all their paying in ... It's Been All Change For Drapers (27 June 1975) TRM/124 One of the oldest firms in Bletchley who are still operating from their original site are the well-known drapers, A G Cowlishaw and Son, whose business in Aylesbury Street, Fenny Stratford, was founded in 1912 or 1913. But the Cowlishaw connection with Fenny goes back further – to the time last century when Mr John Cowlishaw, ... Sorry About Teafolk... (10 September 1976) TRM/185 I am sorry to hear of the impending closure of the Tetley factory in Bletchley. Sorry not only for the more obvious reasons. But also on what might be called sentimental grounds. Tetley’s came to Bletchley in 1940, after their London premises had been bombed out and first occupied the factory at the corner of Osborne ...