This album contains 11 postcards from a booklet published by Co-operative Retail Services in 119 to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the Rochdale Equitable Pioneers Society and the 60th Anniversary of Co-operative Retail Services Ltd.
The individual postcards show typical activities and significant events from the history of the co-operative movement in the UK:
1. Members of Ilford Co-operative Women’s Guild on a charabanc outing to Brighton in 1926
2. The 21st Birthday Celebrations of Newmarket Co-operative Society in 1920
3. Petition by Hull co-operators
4. Members of London Co-operative Society's involved in the Peace Movement in the 1930s
5. The 1937 Co-operative Congress in Bath
6. The “Pioneers” at the Co-operative Pageant - Wembley Stadium 2 July 1938
7. Publicising the co-operative message on this 1950s Barnsley British Co-operative Society Float
8. Crowds gather at a blaze at the Salisbury Co-operative Society store
9. The opening of the Barnsley British Co-operative Society museum in its original store in 1962
10. Celebrating the Centenary of the Co-operative Wholesale Society in 1963
11. Twerton Co-operative Society carnival float c1900-1910
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