This photo kindly shared by Margaret Stewart (passed over my garden wall in August), shows the women staff in the Stonefield Independent Co-op. It appears to be from the 1930’s and Margaret told me a family member is pictured. This is the Co-op shoe department, all the similar sized boxes in the background various boots, […]
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1978 Central Co-op Premises
Pictured here in 1978 on Glasgow Road are the old tenements and hall which accommodated Blantyre Central Co-op. This was a former 2-storey stone built building at the west corner of the junction of Herbertson Street and Glasgow Road. Constructed started in 1915 and it opened in February 1917. The Co-op building was built on top […]
Blantyre Co-op Central Premises
Central Co-op Building – was a former large L shaped, impressive building in Low Blantyre, which contained several Co-op shops with the Head Office of Blantyre Co-operative Society in the building at the corner of Glasgow Road and Herbertson Street (opposite Forrest Street.) The Co-op already was located nearby further eastwards at Henderson’s Buildings […]