You are here: Home>Search Search Currently displaying: 4 results You've searched for: Subject: "Co-operative society" x Search term Filter by Collection All Change (1) Filter by Format Audio (1)Document (2)Audio Visual (1) Filter by Subject Wolverton Works (1)Working conditions (1)Local characters (2)Wolverton (2)Women at work (1)Domestic life (2)Trade (2)Co-operative society (4)Trade unions (1)Holiday (1)General strike (1)1920s (1)placemaking (1)communities (1) Filter by Decade 1970s (3) 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 ... Blowing The Gaff: A Matter Of Time And Place (23 March 1973) TRM/012 In a northern county borough stands a building whose dome and clock and general solid Victorian magnificence are secondly only to that of the town hall itself. They are the central premises of the town’s pioneer co-operative society. High up on either side of the main door, two medallion-type heads of men are carved in stone. One ... 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 ...