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New CO-OP Store
New CO-OP Store
Photo: RON HUNT
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Item #: 31400
Observer cutting showing the NEW Co-op store Powell street and Standishgate

Comment by: Veronica on 6th August 2019 at 13:07

This store was my first stop on the way 'up town' after walking down Greenough St. A school friend worked there and we always had a chat...I remember it as a very busy store.

Comment by: DerekB on 6th August 2019 at 15:16

This was 1938. The date used to be set in the masonry over the curved section fronting Greenough St/Standishgate.

Comment by: Terry on 6th August 2019 at 20:18

Actually corner of Powell St and Standishgate Derek B.

Comment by: Alan H on 7th August 2019 at 13:31

My dad was the manager of the grocery department in the 40’s and 50’s.

Comment by: Albert.S. on 7th August 2019 at 14:10

Didn’t this particular architecture, and design have a name?.

Comment by: RON HUNT on 7th August 2019 at 16:34

Albert I would say it's ART DECO style

Comment by: DerekB on 7th August 2019 at 16:41

Quite right Terry. Powell St and then Greenough St.

Comment by: Albert.S. on 8th August 2019 at 11:18

Thank you Ron. I was thinking that, but I couldn’t just remember the name given to it.

Comment by: Cyril on 8th August 2019 at 16:40

I worked there for around four years in the 1960s and didn't particular like it, if I hadn't gone out during the day doing deliveries I doubt I'd have stuck it so long, the TV programme Are You being Served reminded so much about here, The Emporium as it was called.

Art Deco has Ron said is right, though by the 1930s it began to be called Art Moderne or Streamline Moderne, https://circaoldhouses.com/art-deco-art-moderne/, there was another good example of this style of building on King Street Leigh it was latterly used as a taxi office before being demolished, the petrol station in this photo, link below, looks similar to how it looked. https://literaryfictions.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/gulf-e2809cstreamline-moderne2809d-station-built-for-the-1939-worlde28099s-fair-on-long-island-.jpg?w=584&h=376

Comment by: Cyril on 8th August 2019 at 20:07

The taxi office in Leigh I mentioned in my previous post was at one time the LUT bus office, there's a photo of what was left of it on PAD. Link.
http://www.wiganworld.co.uk/photoaday.php?photo=2014-12-04

Comment by: norman critchley on 11th October 2019 at 12:46

hi cyril remember me i was the driver for the furnishing dep.

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