The Co-operative Wholesale Society (CWS) began in Manchester. It was a pioneer in improving working conditions for its employees. The name was changed to the Co-operative Group in 2001.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Edward Owen Greening, 1836 - 1923, co-operator and social reformer, lived in ...
In 1835 two men, who had been successful with the Friends Provident Institution, selling life assurance only to Quakers, formed the less choosy National Provident Institution, opening for business ...
This toll gate is thought to have stood about where Marble Arch now stands.
The London Metropolitan Archive holds records for the Greenwich Workshop for the Blind, 1875-1960. and explains: "The Greenwich Workshop for the Blind, began as the Workshop for the Blind of Kent,...
We can't see this turnpike on a map of 1790.  View from the Mirror has a good general post on London turnpikes.
Merchant and philanthropist. Born at White Coppice, near Chorley, Lancashire. By the time he was thirty-five he had established a successful chain of grocery stores. In 1872 he purchased the patent...
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