My mother’s cousin Glider Pilot Sgt Harry Walker worked in the Oxbridge Co op until he went to war. Sadly he died of wounds in an Arnhem hospital following the fateful attack on the bridge in September 1944.
Definitely the Oxbridge branch of the Co-op. I cannot claim to remember the check number but I can recall the typical smells of such shop and of the one on Grangefield Road.
Yet did Newman’s & Hintons’ have a slightly superior air. I can still smell the ground coffee at Hintons’ near Holy Trinity School
I was sent errands here (divi number 27499) up to 1949. We lived at 58 Oxbridge Lane (still standing?) and was born in 1944 not too far away at 26 Elsdon Street. How many pre-school five year olds go on shopping trips unsupervised these days??
I worked in the grocery part of this co-op in 1956 as a “Warehouse” boy, spending most of my time at the rear of the shop weighing and bagging flour ,or loading the lorry which delivered to houses in the surrounding area. Sometimes I would deliver groceries to nearby houses on the special bike with the front carrier and on occaision I would work in the shop, so maybe I may have served you at one time.
I lived in Suffolk Street up to the mid fifties and knew this Co-op very well. I still remember my mother”s check number 23545 and the day when the “divi” was paid out always meant we got a special treat. Whenever I ran messages for the neighbour across the street it was always with the reminder, – “And don”t put it on your mother”s check number!”
I think this is the Coop at the end of Osborne Road with Oxbridge Infants and Juniour school to the left of the picture. I lived in Osborne Road in the fifties and sixties. My mother didn”t use this coop very much but on occasions when she couldn”t get something from the grocers on the other side of the road she used to send me there. I loved going in this Coop because of the overhead cable to take the money to the cashier who was in a cubicle at the back of the shop.
My mother’s cousin Glider Pilot Sgt Harry Walker worked in the Oxbridge Co op until he went to war. Sadly he died of wounds in an Arnhem hospital following the fateful attack on the bridge in September 1944.
Definitely the Oxbridge branch of the Co-op. I cannot claim to remember the check number but I can recall the typical smells of such shop and of the one on Grangefield Road.
Yet did Newman’s & Hintons’ have a slightly superior air. I can still smell the ground coffee at Hintons’ near Holy Trinity School
I was sent errands here (divi number 27499) up to 1949. We lived at 58 Oxbridge Lane (still standing?) and was born in 1944 not too far away at 26 Elsdon Street. How many pre-school five year olds go on shopping trips unsupervised these days??
Lived in Elsdon Street in the 1950 and also remember the overhead money cables in the shop and my mothers divi number was 379379.
I worked in the grocery part of this co-op in 1956 as a “Warehouse” boy, spending most of my time at the rear of the shop weighing and bagging flour ,or loading the lorry which delivered to houses in the surrounding area. Sometimes I would deliver groceries to nearby houses on the special bike with the front carrier and on occaision I would work in the shop, so maybe I may have served you at one time.
I lived in Suffolk Street up to the mid fifties and knew this Co-op very well. I still remember my mother”s check number 23545 and the day when the “divi” was paid out always meant we got a special treat. Whenever I ran messages for the neighbour across the street it was always with the reminder, – “And don”t put it on your mother”s check number!”
I think this is the Coop at the end of Osborne Road with Oxbridge Infants and Juniour school to the left of the picture. I lived in Osborne Road in the fifties and sixties. My mother didn”t use this coop very much but on occasions when she couldn”t get something from the grocers on the other side of the road she used to send me there. I loved going in this Coop because of the overhead cable to take the money to the cashier who was in a cubicle at the back of the shop.