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Loftus Co-operative Store in the days of long white aprons, no check-out and no pre-packaged produce! I don’t suppose anybody knows any of these immaculately turned out shop assistants? Lorraine Williams tells us: “From at least 1890 the Fenby family ran a fruiterers business in Loftus probably until the 1920s. Skelton Fenby, one of the son’s, was the Loftus co-op manager in 1911 when he was 41 but I don’t know how long he remained there. He later moved to Darlington and opened a drapery store and eventually became Mayor of Darlington in 1947.”
Image courtesy of the Pem Holliday Collection, Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum and others; also than ks to Lorraine Williams for that update..
Taken from Duncan Place this only shows part of the Co-operative Stores in Loftus, going to the left was the shoe department followed by the entrance and stairs to the offices, where on dividend day the queues extended out into the street. After these came a quite large drapery, and at the end of the block the butcher’s shop. There was also an electrical store and a large furniture store farther down to the west of Loftus. However the Archive is now aware that the original Co-operative building was further down Zetland Road towards West Road and will locate and display the shop frontage.
Image courtesy of Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum, the Pem Holliday Collection and others.
Betty Peart (Mrs. Ditchburn), Philip Beadnall, and Betty Tebble (Mrs.Gorman) pictured outside the front of Dodd’s shop on Zetland Road in the 1960s. Barbara McBurney tells us: “I remember Philip Beadnall working for Fred Lindsley in his shop on West Road, probably late 1950’s, the shop was a man’s outfitters and if my memory serves me well I think there was a corner selling records. I also worked with him in the late 1970’s in the Mill Manager’s Office at Skinningrove Works!” Whilst Richard Beadnall tells us: “Phil is my uncle and still lives in Brotton, as he has done all his life.”
Image and names courtesy of Mrs. Ditchburn; with thanks to Barbara McBurney and Richard Beadnall for the updates.
Mary Coverdale, Eve Tebble, Philip Beadnall, and Betty Gorman are pictured in the side street between Dodd’s shop and the main building of the Co-operative in this photograph; taken in 195?
Image and names courtesy of Betty Gorman.
Betty Gorman, Mary Coverdale and Betty Ditchburn were joined by Jane Lindsley in this photo taken beside Dodd’s shop. The awning is out on Brittain’s shop over the road; with Mrs. Brittain in the doorway. The premises are presently occupied by Thompsons Funeral Services and prior to that was Trillos Ice-cream Parlour and Cafe.
Image and names courtesy of Betty Gorman.
This image is from a selection of photographs that were taken when Mrs Betty Gorman was an assistant in C. J. Dodd’s shop on Zetland Road. In this image Mary Coverdale is arranging the window display.
Image courtesy of Betty Gorman.
Mr. Dodd sitting at his desk in the kiosk where the cash was handled in this photo, taken in August 1979.
Image courtesy of Mrs. Ditchburn.
John Dodd beside his father, behind the counter in their shop. Christopher Colbeck tells us: ” My mother, Dorothy HEBRON born 1915 in Loftus at Pear Tree House in the Market Place, told me a tale she remembered of her own mother Sarah HEBRON visiting the Dodds shop where they had just had installed; on the end of the shop counter, a device which held a large roll of brown paper for wrapping sold goods. Having bought and paid for some goods which were duly wrapped. She then noticed that the paper displayed the name of the shop. Dodds were very proud of the paper roll device but her mother in some fairly haughty manner told the staff that she was not going to walk through Loftus advertising Dodds name and made the staff unwrap the goods and reverse the paper and re-wrap before she would take her purchase out of the shop. Imagine trying that at Sainsburys today?”
Image courtesy of Mrs. Ditchburn and many thanks to Christopher Colbeck for that update.
Mr. C.N. Dodd standing in front of the net curtain display in August, 1979, there are some colourful materials on the shelves behind.
Image courtesy of Mrs. Ditchburn.
Betty Ditchburn and Mary Coverdale are behind the counter; whilst Betty Gorman is in front in this photograph. The cash tin can be seen above the shelves. Do you remember how your payment was put in the canister and it went round the wires to the kiosk? The money was taken out and your change put in the tin and then it was sent back to the counter.
Image and names courtesy of Mrs. Betty Gorman.
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