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Mothers Co-op number what was it?.

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Yammy Sat 07-Aug-21 12:28:38

A light one for the weekend.
Can anyone remember their mother's Co-op number? I certainly can't but last night DH trotted his mothers out. We were talking about boys wearing wellingtons all year round in the 50's and he said he went for his own and put them on the "Book" he also went for his own summer goloshes /plimsolls to the rest of the country and his gaberdine mac.
I can remember the "Book" when things were brought home on trial and then returned if not suitable.
My gran still sent in a tick list of the Groceries she needed each week then they were delivered by a van, sounds a bit like online grocery shopping. She still called them her rations.
Does anyone else have memories of the good old Co-op?

Nonogran Sat 07-Aug-21 16:24:49

638!
A small thriving town in the West Country.
I’ve only won two raffles in my life and the first was a box of chocolates at the village Co-op! Deep joy & excitement for a child who didn’t have much in the 50’s.
Pleased to say near me, I’ve got 2 brand new Co-op stores. So handy.
Happy memories.

Callistemon Sat 07-Aug-21 16:46:56

Yes, I can.
Mum used to write the weekly order in a book and I often had to take it along and ask for certain items straight away, the rest to be delivered later. The Co-op butcher's was next door and I had to go in there too and bring home part of the meat order.

I don't really remember my wellies but I do remember Dad cutting the toes out of my Clark's sandals with a Stanley knife so they would last the rest of the summer.

Bellanonna Sat 07-Aug-21 17:05:01

18291. I remember those pulleys too.

nexus63 Sat 07-Aug-21 17:12:47

i don't know my grans co-op number but the co-op was the last shop we would go to, i stayed in springburn, glasgow in the 60s/70s, we would go all the way to the dairy and work backwords, butchers, galbraths, woolworths and the last one was the co-op, i got to stick the stamps on, they opened a co-op hypermarket but my gran did not like it.....to big and not very friendly.....lol

Alygran Sat 07-Aug-21 17:13:03

9200
The coop started in Rochdale, the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers.

SpringyChicken Sat 07-Aug-21 17:28:45

When my mother died, we used Coop funeral service. They asked if she had been a member, I said yes and trotted out the number from memory. They traced the old number back through their records and gave us a discount!

NotSpaghetti Sat 07-Aug-21 17:44:04

Nannan2

Or corner shops giving you things 'on tick' till payday.?Those were more trusting days...

About 10 years ago a fancy bridal shop gave me three very expensive items to try on at home. On approval.
She took my name and address but had no idea if I was just making it up or not!

NotSpaghetti Sat 07-Aug-21 17:44:52

I don't remember my mother's number ... but I do still have her book.

PippaZ Sat 07-Aug-21 18:04:14

How I missed out. I don't think you had a "number" at the NAFFI smile.

grandma60 Sat 07-Aug-21 18:13:58

1846 was my mother's divi number.
When she was in a care home with dementia I arrived to be told that she had been reciting this number all morning and they had wondered if I knew what it meant.

Kate1949 Sat 07-Aug-21 19:11:15

Oh yes I remember my mother's Co-op number. She used to drum it into us when she sent us to the Co-op. I can remember going with her to collect the 'divi'.

Liz46 Sat 07-Aug-21 19:18:55

15163

joannapiano Sat 07-Aug-21 19:21:18

My Mum’s was 104949.

Grannmarie Sat 07-Aug-21 19:40:44

2824, Dalziel Cooperative in Lanarkshire.

Marydoll Sat 07-Aug-21 20:47:29

Granmarie, do you remember Dalziel, the baker, who used to come round with a mobile shop?

Sara1954 Sat 07-Aug-21 21:57:16

We had a mobile shop called Larcombes, you could buy pretty much everything, we used to get paraffin, he always had laundry baskets and dustbins tied to his roof.

Grannmarie Sat 07-Aug-21 21:59:23

Hi, Marydoll, I do remember Dalziel the Baker, they had shops as well, but I don't think they were part of the Co op.
Dalziel is/was a local name, historical in these parts!
Sometimes there are variations in the spelling, you see Dalzell also.

Grandmajean Sat 07-Aug-21 23:27:11

Grannmarie was Dalziel co-op near Hamilton ? I am from there and it sounds familiar

Deedaa Sat 07-Aug-21 23:39:42

I can't remember my mother's number now but I didn't forget it till long after she stopped using it. Actually the number 762147 has just popped into my head - I wonder if that was it?

For a dyed in the wool Tory like my mother the Co op always seemed a very socialist thing for her to be involved in.

Lexisgranny Sun 08-Aug-21 00:04:27

595, and woe betide me if I forgot to ask for it, or lost it on the way home. The dividend was used to replenish household goods following the shortage at the end of the war.

*not spaghetti*;I remember goods being sent “on appro” from shops in our small market town, from small dress shops/, shoe shops. Etc Not too different from sending things back to a catalogue or online if they do not suit. One shoe shop in particular rang to say that they had shoes she might like and sent three boxes, each pair in a different colour. Regrettably she left them in the house and went into the garden,and during this time her young puppy chewed up one shoe from each box, so she had to pay for all three pairs , and didn’t have a pair to wear.

Grannmarie Sun 08-Aug-21 01:31:27

Hi, Grandmajean, yes, Dalziel Cooperative Society had several branches - selling groceries, clothing, furniture - across Motherwell and Wishaw, not far from Hamilton.

BBbevan Sun 08-Aug-21 05:43:17

DH and I had a co-op number but we can't remember it, though DH remembers his mother's. My mother wouldn't have set foot in a Coop.
We have a really excellent one near us but no did I number these days

Ashcombe Sun 08-Aug-21 06:35:19

Ours was 28670. Once a week, my Dad would take a book into our Co-op with a list of groceries which would be ready for collection later that day. Even though this was in the late Fifties, he still talked about “collecting the rations”!

DanniRae Sun 08-Aug-21 07:32:50

BBbevan - your mum wouldn't set foot in a Co-op, my mum wouldn't buy groceries in Woolworths! She was a terrible snob........but a lovely mum for all that smile

rascal Sun 08-Aug-21 07:41:45

My Mum's co-op number was 332 and my Gran's was 2626. That was a long time ago in the 50's!