Retailer. Originally established as the Royal Arsenal Supply Association, by twenty workers from the Royal Arsenal. It was renamed in 1872, and expanded from just being a food retailer, into a vast range of other activities including property developer. Commercial problems eventually forced it into a merger with the national Co-operative Wholesale Society.
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Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society
{On the clock tower façade, all in glazed terracotta: Below the windows:} Ce...
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Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society
Chairman of the Sir Keith Park Memorial Campaign. Â Spent 3 years and millions of dollars to get the Keith Park statue erected. Â In 2011 this earned him, a Brit, the title normally given to a NZ cit...
Worked for the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society. Was on the building committee for the Abbey Wood branch in 1912.
Establihsed by George Barham in the late 19th century to sell milk-related things, such as the milk churns which Barham had invented.
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