Co-op Events Booklet

This album contains 11 postcards from a booklet published by Co-operative Retail Services in 119 to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the Rochdale Equitable Pioneers Society and the 60th Anniversary of Co-operative Retail Services Ltd.

The individual postcards show typical activities and significant events from the history of the co-operative movement in the UK:

1.  Members of Ilford Co-operative Women’s Guild on a charabanc outing to Brighton in 1926

2.  The 21st Birthday Celebrations of Newmarket Co-operative Society in 1920

3.  Petition by Hull co-operators

4.  Members of London Co-operative Society's involved in the Peace Movement in the 1930s

5.  The 1937 Co-operative Congress in Bath

6.  The “Pioneers” at the Co-operative Pageant - Wembley Stadium 2 July 1938

7.  Publicising the co-operative message on this 1950s Barnsley British Co-operative Society Float

8.  Crowds gather at a blaze at the Salisbury Co-operative Society store

9.  The opening of the Barnsley British Co-operative Society museum in its original store in 1962

10. Celebrating the Centenary of the Co-operative Wholesale Society in 1963

11. Twerton Co-operative Society carnival float c1900-1910