Operative Collection

Plumstead Common Road, showing (on the right, with the clock tower), the newly opened " Links" (1904) branch of the Royal Arsenal Co-Operative Society, still a " Co-Op" today

Trades union membership certificate
A trades union membership certificate for the United Operative Plumbers Association of Great Britain and Ireland, with Defence and Defiance as their motto

Robert Owen / New Harmony
New Harmony, Indiana, USA. Robert Owen established an experimental co-operative community to compliment his ideas for social reform. The project failed in 1928

Aveling Porter Steamroller Outside Co-operative Shop, England. Date: 1900s

Wordsworth / Hawkshead
A corner of the Square, and tiny Methodist chapel, which has been operative since 1862, at Hawkshead, Cumbria, the village where William Wordsworth lived as a boy

United States Air Force - Beechcraft QU-22B 69-7702 (msn EB-10) The QU-22B was developed as very quiet un-piloted relay station for the Igloo White movement detection system deployed on the Ho Chi

Robert Owen - New Harmony, Indiana, USA
New Harmony, Indiana, USA. Robert Owen established an experimental co-operative community to compliment his ideas for social reform. The project failed in 1828. Date: 1838

Advert, Co-Operative Tea is filling the Nation's Teapot

Advert,s Moss, Druggist and Chemist, Cheltenham
Advert,s Moss, Druggist, Operative & Experimental Chemist, High Street, Cheltenham. Date: 1826

Members of NUTGW campaigning
Members of NUTGW (National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers), NATSOPA (National Society of Operative Printers and Assistants)

Ian Mikardo, British Labour politician
Ian Mikardo (1908-1993), nicknamed Mik, British Labour and Co-operative politician, a left-wing backbench MP for four decades in the House of Commons, and a Zionist

Hat factory workers, Southwark, London 1841
Hat factory workers making beaver (or bever) hats at the Christy hat factory in Southwark, London. 1841

Tow carding in a Yorkshire flax mill. Date: 1843

Doubling the drawings in a Yorkshire flax mill. Date: 1843

Carpet shearing machine in a Glasgow carpet factory
Woman operating a carpet shearing machine in a Glasgow carpet factory. Date: 1843

HQ General Maxwell Taylor Hiesville Normandy
This 101st US Airborne Division HQ had been chosen from a map while the troops were still in England and the headquarters was operative by 0900 hours on 6 June 1944

Box label, Royal Knight Californian Fruit
Box label, Royal Knight, Redlands Co-Operative Fruit Association, Redlands, California, USA

Metal Check Receipt, Royal Arsenal Co-Operative Society, WW2
Metal Check Receipt, Royal Arsenal Co-Operative Society, Powis Street, Woolwich, SE London, for half year ended 6 January 1945. Date: 1945

Advert,s Moss, Druggist, Operative & Experimental Chemist, High Street, Cheltenham. 1826

Farmers in France cultivating the ground after World War One were finding unexploded projectiles. In this drawing you can see a operator with a telephone receiver (microphone)

Hat factory workers, Southwark, London 1841
Hat factory workers making beaver (or bever) hats at the Christy hat factory in Southwark, London. Men employed in wetting, rolling, pressing ruffling and blocking the hat bodies. Date: 1841

Street scene, Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa
Street scene with the Co-Operative Wholesale Society Limited, Cotton Department, in Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa. Date: circa 1915

Tobacco Stall in Market
Tobacconists stall in a Co-operative market selling cigars, cigarettes, snuff and other forms of tobacco Date: 1909

Co-operative Society, Drighlington, Yorkshire
Co-operative Society, Drighlington, Bradford, near Morley, Yorkshire, England. Date: 1900s

High Street, Leven, Fifeshire
High Street, Leven, near Glenrothes/Kirkaldy, Fifeshire, Scotland. Reform Co-operative Society Date: 1900s

Village of Belsay, Northumberland, England
The Village of Belsay, Northumberland, England. On the right can be seen the Belsay Branch of the Ashington Industrial Co-operative Society Limited. Date: circa 1910s

Co-operative Society Parade, Birkenhead, Lancashire
Co-operative Society Parade, Birkenhead, near Liverpool, Lancashire, England. Date: 1914

Industrial Co-operative Society Milk Advertising Lorry, Darlington, County Durham, England. Date: 1920s

Shop-front - Premises of the Co-operative Society, Birkenhea
Shop-front/Premises of the Co-operative Society, Birkenhead, Lancashire, England. Date: 1900s

Wartime Paper Recycling
In Holt, a Wiltshire village, Lady Cecilie Goff and members of the Womens Co-Operative Guild check sacks of paper collected to be recycled in order that it might be used in munitions manufacture

Rochefort Lighting Up
HENRI ROCHEFORT French radical journalist and politician, lighting the first furnace in a workers co-operative glassworks at Albi. Date: 1830 - 1913

Co-operative Wholesale Societies - London - Tea Department
English and Scottish - Co-operative Wholesale Societies - London Tea Department Warehouse. Date: circa 1905

Home Ownership Co-operative Insurance Company booklet
Front cover of a booklet advising potential home owners on a house purchase plan, with a picture of a perfect looking 1920s house. Date: 1954

Co-Op Store, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
Interior view of part of the Co-Operative Department Store at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, showing clothing and rolls of material on display. 1957

Jacquard Card Making, Halifax
Jacquard Card Making at Akroyds Worsted Factory, Halifax. An operative punches Jacquard cards assisted by a boy cutting out blank cards. Date: 1844

Bakery
The workers cooperative bakery, Copenhagen, end of 1900s. Date: End 1900s

Exiled Communards 1
Fleeing France after the Commune, communist refugees establish a community in London : they maintain a co- operative kitchen in Newman Passage, near Charing Cross. Date: 1872

Census tabulation in former Lambeth workhouse
Data from the 1931 census being transferred to punched cards in the former Lambeth workhouse - presumably the one on Princes Road (now Black Prince Road), Lambeth, south London

Tobacco Stall / Co-Op
Tobacconists stall in a Co-operative market selling cigars, cigarettes, snuff and other forms of tobacco

Co-Op Butchery Dept
Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society butchery department shop (probably in Lewisham)

Free Trade Co-Op Meeting
A meeting of the Manchester & Salford Co-operative Society in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester

Co-Operative Store C1900
The Co-operative stores at North Woolwich, London

Leeds Co-Op Store
LEEDS INDUSTRIAL CO-OPERATIVE STORE, Yorkshire - one of the earliest co-ops

BISCUITS
Selection of biscuits for eating with cheese, manufactured by the Co- operative Society of Manchester, Lancashire [England]

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