Guess the Place

[grandarog]

Is it the old NAAFI shop Brompton.

[shoot999]

Try a wider view. It's use is not significant. So its more where it's located.

[John Walker]

Doctor's Surgery ?

[shoot999]

A Youth club in the Medway Towns ?

Medway Towns it is. Not a club; but plenty of people in and out all day long. Replaced with something similar and still in use today.

[John Walker]

A Youth club in the Medway Towns ?

[shoot999]

Queenborough?

Not Queenborough. Should add this was demolished shortly after this pix was taken in the mid 60s

[John Walker]

Queenborough?

[KeithG]

Can't believe i used to go there 64yrs ago!

[shoot999]

Scrapping the barrel with this one I'm afraid.

[KeithG]

Yes, shoot999 you have it


The wide entrance on the left of the picture was a walkway right through to Commercial Road which still runs along at the rear of the shops when the one way traffic was introduced.


Well done and over to you 

[shoot999]

It's the Rochester Co-operative; obviously situated in........Strood High Street. Now a Sports Direct.

[KeithG]

All the posts are interesting about the memories of the
Co-op so i can't offer to where this shop is as there are so many of them.
When my Mum died i was 10yrs old and my Dad used the small Co-op funeral shop in Chatham High Street to get the stamps
Lots of the shops were in old now historic buildings in main High Streets but this one was newly built in 1961 in the Medway Towns and is no longer a Co-op


Gillingham had the Gillingham Co-operative Society
Chatham had Chatham Co-operative
Rochester had its Rochester Co-operative


So if a "red herring" where is this shop?




You have to think how many separate towns were in the old Medway Towns

[John Walker]

The local Co-op was just round the corner from my Nan's home in London Road, Canterbury.  I would be regularly sent round there to do her shopping.  The last thing I would hear as I left the house was always, "And don't forget my Co-op Stamps".  An early version of Green Shield Stamps.

[Diapason]

Mum`s number was 6439. which resulted in many happy Christmases. The TV was `Defiant` (the Co-op Brand). I even had a Co-op bike one Christmas, which had all the appearance of a Raleigh but was badged and painted Co-op. Even the Mangle, used every Monday morning, had Co-op worked into the wrought iron hand wheel which operated it. All paid for with Co-op `Divi`.
The Co-op once had a museum in the Dartford area where the Mangle was renovated and exhibited. Likewise a contraption, found in the roof-space of a former Co-op building, which turned out to be a raisin stoner.     

[MartinR]

Superficially similar to a loyalty card.  Each time you bought something at the Co-op the amount was recorded against your number.  Every so often (annually?) they "made up" the book.  The company's profits for the period were divided up and distributed pro-rata according to how much you had spent in the period, it was as though your purchases had bought that many shares.  See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumers%27_co-operative for more details.