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Co-op shops in Small Heath

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hi all. would anyone have a picture of the co-op shop that used to be by greenway st small heath please. many thanks wales.
 
postie. that was quick. i am asking for a friend but if this is the one by greenway street yes i would say it was. many thanks wales.
 
Wales,

Small Heath Co op was a little way up the Coventry Rd from Greenway St, But not far. It in fact ran from next to the Grange Picture House on the corner of Grange Rd No's 394 to 416 to the corner of Watts St. I have marked the location on the map with a red X.

Phil

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phil. thanks very much for the pics and the map. the one of the inside of the shop is great. lyn
 
Wales. Isnt Postie a gem. He has helped me out just as quick before. A marvellous fellow. Barry.
 
barry all my photo expert friends are great. would be lost without them thats why once i got the hang of posting pics i was wacking mine on the site to share with others. wales.
 
Great photos and they were lovely shops Mom worked in the Greengrocery dept Newtown I think it was next to the Stork Pub

Mom also used the one in Alum Rock Road near Edmund Road when we visited our Aunt & Uncle.

It would be nice to see a photo of that (I've just found what happened to it)



This is where I found it and its got photos of a lot of ex Co-op shops and other bits of Brum
https://www.flickr.com/photos/co-ophistory/1804911255/
 
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I love any old photos of long ago showing dear old Small Heath as my parents would've known it. Even in my few years there (1957 to 1968) I loved shopping 'up the Cov'.
Great pictures Postie, Phil & Alf.
 
Hello Wales,
I do seem to remember a small co-op shop that was on the Coventry road, opposite Greenway St. It only had food provisions as I recall, &
it was NOT self service in those days, we stood in front of the counter
& cheese etc was weighed out for us. I seem to remember a lovely lady
called ZETA or ZENA who worked there.

Regards,
Margaret.
 
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Hello Beamish,

WELL...you have really jogged my memory now...I think the Co-op was alongside a shop called " Mannys "...they sold ladies underwear !!!! The bus stop was also there.

Regards,
Margaret.
 
Here's the Bus Stop. although strictly speaking this says from the city so it was probably on the other side of the road.
 
Frazier Brothers had a shop on the corner of Coventry Rd/Charles Rd at the traffic lights up from Small Heath Park, my Mom kept a small shop and they would sell goods to her at wholesale price, they sold butter from a large block also cheese, sugar was weighed and put into thick blue paper bags, in front of the long marble topped counter were open large tins of biscuits and Mr. Frazier would let me & my Brother have a biscuit from a tin, poor but happy days. Len.
 
there was a coop facing Greenway street next to the Tile Pub,i lived in Greenway Street and my mother used the coop, can still remember her coop number,no photo of it though as any one has a photo of the Tile & oxford Pubs
 
Hi,
Does anyone remember queing up for their Co-op Dividend outside Small Heath Co-op?
 
Yes, and I remember the number 169946. Although one never queued personally, one's maid or butler did. January double divi 1/10d and jumpers for goalposts.
 
Opposite Greenway st was a Co-op dry cleaners it was only a small shop my friends mother used to work there, when I worked at Glarrys Gown shop just up the road from there and as I was the junior in the shop I used to take the other girls clothes in for cleaning and my friends mom suggested I had my own Co-op number so I could collect the divi.

Pat
 
I remember another Co-op Grocery store which was Golden Hillock Road, near an entrance to the park, I can't remember the roads around it, but there was a little traffic island and on the other side was a garage. This was about 1957/58 what I remember vividly was a middle aged woman and I presume her daughter and they used to turn up with a basket carriage and it would be filled to the brim, I often wondered how large the family was, or whether they kept a lodging house.
 
“CO-OPERATIVE PREMISES, SMALL HEATH, BIR-MINGHAM.

New buildings in Coventry-road, Small Heath, have been erected for the Birmingham Co-operative Society. The building is three stories in height, and has cost, with fittings, some 12,000l. There are four shops, a showroom on the first floor, and an assembly room on the top floor. The last-named it is proposed to utilise for entertainments to members of the society, lectures to disseminate the principles of co-operation, and to let out for other purposes. The room will seat 700 people. The whole establishment is lighted by electricity, generated on the premises. The architect is Mr. F. E. L. Harris, Manchester, and the contractor is Mr. T. Rowbotham, Birmingham.”
(The Builder, March 1902)
 
Pedrocut said:
“CO-OPERATIVE PREMISES, SMALL HEATH, BIR-MINGHAM.

New buildings in Coventry-road, Small Heath, have been erected for the Birmingham Co-operative Society. The building is three stories in height, and has cost, with fittings, some 12,000l. There are four shops, a showroom on the first floor, and an assembly room on the top floor. The last-named it is proposed to utilise for entertainments to members of the society, lectures to disseminate the principles of co-operation, and to let out for other purposes. The room will seat 700 people. The whole establishment is lighted by electricity, generated on the premises. The architect is Mr. F. E. L. Harris, Manchester, and the contractor is Mr. T. Rowbotham, Birmingham.”
(The Builder, March 1902)
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In the early 1960's the assembly room was used as a youth club for one night per week. I can also remember one Saturday morning it was used for a "jumble sale" with procedes going to charity. I ran one of the stalls with my brother. I was about 14 years old

Peter
 
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