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Tascos Co-op

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KJSScott

knowlegable brummie
I was born in Stirchley in 1953, and the shop that dominated was the Ten Acres & Stirchley Co Operative Society to give it its full title. It was an imposing building at the corners of the Pershore Rd and Umberslade Rd. It also had a Milk dairy just behind it.
They had a barbers in the basement and this is were my Mom use take me for a hair cut always short back and sides.
I can remember my Mom collected the "divi" some short of points system they used to get reduced prices, every one had a number they had to remember.
It was demolished, I think in the seventhies and replaced by the usual non discript building.
I have always thought Stirchley as a shopping centre declined when the old Co-op went.
 
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The above links are for the Ten Acres and Stirchley Co-ops. My connection to them was through John Wilson & Sons (Wholesale Grocers)Ltd, New John Street West. I worked there for a couple of years starting in l957.
TASCOS was one of their biggest customers and I believe they had one salesman that covered all their shops for orders. I always remember their logo
which was on the cheques that came in to pay for their orders.
 
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By the early 1900s the Co-op was doing horse drawn funerals.
 
Hi stitcher
What a great photo, i wonder what street that was. Thanks for sharing it with us.


Stars
 
I have no idea whatsoever Stars, but it must be in the city somewhwere.
stitcher.
 
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The CO-OP Funeral Dept. was in Gt Brook St Ashted but I cannot recall this building.Dek
 
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1393 Pershore Road Stirchley, I have no other information once again with this one but a friend tells me that if all the bread baked at these premises for one week was laid end to end it would stretch for about 11-12 miles. This makes me think that this must have been the company's main bakery before the large Co-op one at Stetchford opened.
 
Not sure if bread was baked on these premises as the TASCOS bakery was on the corner of Charlotte road and Maryvale road, always
used to have the delivery vans backed up for loading in the afternoon.The buildings are still there and there was a company called Rubberplas occupying most of the building.
 
just come accross 4 pics of tascos in stirchley including one of their central premises in hazellwell st...will scan and post later on..

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Nothing with this one I am afraid so one of the better equipped members may be able to add a bit of info. A friends Mother who is 89 and still very alert but rather dodgy on her feet said if her memory is correct the Co-op was the first motorised Funeral Service and she vividly remembers the slogan' From The Cradle To The Grave'.
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This one is Coventry Road Small Heath early 1900s.
 
I used to have can't find it at the moment a oblong token which said on it Tascos would any-one know what they were used for thankyou.
 
Does anyone have information on "Casey Week" who/whom or what was "Casey" this a reference to a small Booklet November 10th to 18th 1928 in the Ten Acres & Stirchley Co-op Society Educational Department Winter Program 1928-29 Many Thanks
 
Hi Sticher and stars
Given the fact that tascos started in stircley and as the co/op
And they have roots of there business settled in and up and down the stirchley and cotteridge area
they never really ventured to far away in those early years,and looking at the loer end of pershore road
even today they really have not moved far away even thou they are spread across birminggham
but i will tell you that photograph was taken at the top end of pershore road out side there office
of under takers which is on the pershore road
I cannot say excactly the shop number but for those people whom know pershore road will probaly know
but the postion of the shop was a batch of houses and some shops that are just passed a pub
called the grant arms its just before you hit the railway bridge on pershore road with its advertising hoardings
the bridge i mean are up passing lifford lane as it climbs the hill
best wishes Astonian,,,,,
 
What was AUCE in the last image? There's a lot of it.
Is that an exclusively shopkeeper stance? Hands on hips....Viv.
 
Just a guess but possibly Associated Union of Cooperative Employees, if there was such a thing
 
A Stirchley & Ten Acres Co op shop on Castle Square, Weoley Castle. The image was taken in 1959, this is the only knowledge I have of this shop as I have been on Castle Square only once in my life and that was about forty years ago.

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My grandfather Mr Baldwin was a baker who worked at the TASCOS Bakery at the corner of Mary Vale Road and Charlotte Road. I lived there with him and my grandmother from about 1942 till 1957. I have a copy of the definitive history book on the society "Seventy-Five Years of Co-operative Endeavour" by Harry M. Vickrage published in 1950. It has lots of pictures of Co-op shops!
 
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Stitcher said:
1393 Pershore Road Stirchley, I have no other information once again with this one but a friend tells me that if all the bread baked at these premises for one week was laid end to end it would stretch for about 11-12 miles. This makes me think that this must have been the company's main bakery before the large Co-op one at Stetchford opened.
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1393 Pershore Road Stirchley, I have no other information once again with this one but a friend tells me that if all the bread baked at these premises for one week was laid end to end it would stretch for about 11-12 miles. This makes me think that this must have been the company's main bakery before the large Co-op one at Stetchford opened.
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