Coventry Co-operative Societies

Lindatee, oh yes, the 'divi' and as quoted in my dictionary 'a share of a company's profits'. So my 58046 served me well in its day. I never did cancel it in 1974 so how do I stand now????

Maybe you could take us all to Rhyl!

Dream, I can remember both our family Co-op number and my Nan's too. Still shop at the Co-op today. Wonder if those old numbers in Coventry still exist?

As I recall, there were two chemists' shops there, the Co-op, and Tidball and Soper. There was also a Co-op chemist next door to Pearks "the cigar-**** shop" near the Crem.

My Nan was an avid customer of the Co-op all her life. She was very enthusiastic once when they had a "double-divi" week. When she passed on, the Co-op did all the funeral stuff!

Another memory about the Co-op. Did anyone else have the Co-op insurance man call weekly, collect the money and write up your card? Ours in Canley was called Jack Sampson.

The Co-op man used to come to collect the money on a Saturday morning. One day, when I was around four or five, he saw me kicking a football around the back yard, and had a quiet chat to my mother. The result was a photoshoot, wearing my nice shiny new Clark's school shoes and kicking the ball. A short time later, I was coming home on the No 4 bus towards the Forum, and there I saw myself - the featured soccer star on a huge poster for Clark's! It was up there for quite a while in the early 1950s - I wonder if anyone remembers it!

Anyone else's mum buy Co-op milk checks? Leave them on the doorstep for your daily delivery. Think ours were red & blue. We had a pint of stera and a pint of pasteurised. Stera was horrible to drink!!!

Yes Mick, I'm pretty sure I remember Jack Sampson, he was a regular caller to our house too. At the time we lived in Cromwell Lane and I have a feeling he lived just off Torrington Avenue?

Not my mum but my nan; it always amazed me what they were for, and yes, I can still picture them, quite dark red and blue hues.

I remember the milk checks and the little tin my mum kept them in. When we moved to our new house in Coundon in 59 or 60 we had a little cupboard in the wall by the front door where the milkman would deposit our bottles. We, too, had one of each but I cannot remember why.

What year was the new Co-op built in Corporation St?

Thanks MR. I have been trying to work out when my father in law was working there and I have a feeling he was there from the start. Always on the Gents Outfitters floor.

Dream, I was in the Co-op mens' department with Mr Roberts in the vacations from Bristol during the summers, Christmas and I think Easter vacations. As you say he was a very nice person. Mostly the staff with him were ladies but I also worked on the first floor tailoring and school uniforms, and would occasionally be sent downstairs when they were busy. The boss in my time there was a Mr Dunford who was a keen bowls player, and a bigger, taller man upstairs was a Mr Brown.