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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Founder of the Ardath Tobacco Company. Â Honorary Treasurer at the Royal Free Hospital in 1926. See Lord Riddell. Â Also helped fund the 1928 new extension for which the maternity section was named t...
Worked for the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society. Was on the building committee for the Abbey Wood branch in 1912.
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Stanley served in the RAF during WW2. Â The Burtons were philanthropic and in Leeds there is a gallery and a theatre named "Stanley & Audrey Burton" so we think he may have married an Audrey. Â W...
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