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February 05 2012
Self Service 1950
Self Service was a retail format introduced into Britain from the USA around 1949. It came to Chorlton in the summer of 1950. In a long running programme the M and S Co-op rolled out the aisles and wire baskets to the branches. It took a further nine years for it appear at the Hardy Lane store.
These photos are in an article "Toasting Self Service", about the success of new way of shopping in the Chorlton branch. They are very likely have been photographed at the branch at 349-351 Barlow Moor Road. It was in the red brick building next to the Royal Oak. Quoting from the story...
"More and more of the housewives of Chorlton are realising that this clean, modern, and well-planned shop is the answer to many shopping headaches. All goods are plainly ticketed, all items are visible, the queues are gone"
"To complete the circuit of this self-service shop is to pass the fitments containing items of grocery, green grocery, small items of hardware, bread and confectionary. The shopper determines the speed of purchase".
Note the fruit and vegetables still needed a member of staff to weigh and bag the items. Not shown too clearly is the "Rations Here" department at the back of the shop. It wouldn't be until 1954 that the last of the items on ration came to an end.
Reference : Manchester and Salford Co-operative Herald July 1950, page 172-3
These photos are in an article "Toasting Self Service", about the success of new way of shopping in the Chorlton branch. They are very likely have been photographed at the branch at 349-351 Barlow Moor Road. It was in the red brick building next to the Royal Oak. Quoting from the story...
"More and more of the housewives of Chorlton are realising that this clean, modern, and well-planned shop is the answer to many shopping headaches. All goods are plainly ticketed, all items are visible, the queues are gone"
"To complete the circuit of this self-service shop is to pass the fitments containing items of grocery, green grocery, small items of hardware, bread and confectionary. The shopper determines the speed of purchase".
Note the fruit and vegetables still needed a member of staff to weigh and bag the items. Not shown too clearly is the "Rations Here" department at the back of the shop. It wouldn't be until 1954 that the last of the items on ration came to an end.
Reference : Manchester and Salford Co-operative Herald July 1950, page 172-3
January 05 2012
When it was United
![HARDY LANE [UNITED] (349-351 Barlow Moor Rd, Chorlton-Cum-Hardy, Manchester M21 7AH) {U-LS} May04](http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2638/4239663265_74c2a663fa.jpg)
This photograph was taken in May 2004 when the store was still its original size, and a branch of United Co-operatives in their Late Shop format, read convenience store. The garden area and billboards are to the right now a car park and a side entrance. There are Labour election posters in the windows of the meeting rooms upstairs very likely from the local elections.
This is from Cooperative Stores on Flickr and if you like photographs of co-op shops and pack shots, that is pictures of products you would find on the shelves then click over there. It's a labour of love.
December 16 2011
Oldest Business in Chorlton
Local historian Andrew Simpson has opened up a debate as to the oldest business in Chorlton. Alright there arn't many involved in the debate and they ain't going to fall out about it. All this was prompted by the relocation of H.T.Burt from Chorlton to Poynton recently. The men's fashion store was founded in 1895 and was featured in a Mary Portas Queen of Shops Tv programme in 2007.
The front runners were Ken Foster's Cycle Logic since 1954, then topped by Richardson's Bakery on Beech Road from 1947, and a serious contender R. Pepperdine & Sons, Funeral Directors on Manchester Rd which started in 1873 in Moss Side. But in the mix is the Hardy Lane Co-op Store from 1929. Now operated by The Co-operative after all the mergers that have reduced over a thousand co-operative societies down to a score or so. Should we include the public houses for the Horse & Jockey has a claim for serving ale on that site of Chorlton Green for 500 years?
Anyway you can read the original postings at Chorlton History, and you get a couple of pictures with them.
Oldest Business in Chorlton
The great debate? (part2)
The front runners were Ken Foster's Cycle Logic since 1954, then topped by Richardson's Bakery on Beech Road from 1947, and a serious contender R. Pepperdine & Sons, Funeral Directors on Manchester Rd which started in 1873 in Moss Side. But in the mix is the Hardy Lane Co-op Store from 1929. Now operated by The Co-operative after all the mergers that have reduced over a thousand co-operative societies down to a score or so. Should we include the public houses for the Horse & Jockey has a claim for serving ale on that site of Chorlton Green for 500 years?
Anyway you can read the original postings at Chorlton History, and you get a couple of pictures with them.
Oldest Business in Chorlton
The great debate? (part2)
September 29 2010
A store in every district
Below is a list of branches from the M&SE Co-op in south Manchester back in 1951 (source Kelly's Street Directory but was probably compiled in 1950). It shows a network of small branches, though it isn't a network for the consumer. People used to shop local without the use of the car. Shop more often for a smaller basket, and had a lot less choice. Another point is how the districts they are in have changed in the last 50 years. Didsbury is no considered a much bigger area, as it improves the value of your house.
- Burnage Kingsway
- Brooks's Bar 23-35 Moss Lane West
- Chorlton-cum-Hardy 442-444 Barlow Moor Road (Hardy Lane store)
66 Beech Road
35 Stockton Road ( next to 66 Beech Road)
90-92 Warwick Road South (in Stretford / Trafford)
349-351 Barlow Moor Road (centre of Chorlton) - Didsbury 220-222 Fog Lane
106-116 Wilmslow Road - East Didsbury 476-480 Burnage Lane
179 School Lane
61-63 Ladybarn Lane - West Didsbury 129 Burton Road
36-38 Merseybank Avenue (Merseybank Estate) - Whalley Range 14 Milton Grove
98 Withington Road - Withington 164-166 Parrs Wood Road
87 Wilmslow Road
86-90 Mauldeth Road West
August 23 2010
Also opened in 1929 #4
This was the Co-op store at Green End in Burnage. One of the seven opened in 1929, along with Hardy Lane. There is a photograph taken in 1929 in the Manchester Libraries image collection - here. The store is on the left of a large parade of shops. Now the parade faces a small roundabout but back then there were just tram tracks running along Burnage Lane.
Again there is a access to flat roof at the back of the shop. The address given is 476, 478 & 480 Burnage Lane in the Kelly's Street Directory for 1951.
August 19 2010
Also opened in 1929 #3
There were seven new M&SE Co-ops opened in 1929. Only Hardy Lane has survived as a Co-op. The list of the seven and eventually I got around to Burnage to spot some of them. Now a small independant grocery store and newsagents - at least it is not boarded up and derelict. It's at the corner of Parrs Wood Road and Heyscroft Road.
It has the roof at the back you can walk out onto, as did Hardy Lane. It also has two satellite dishes. Click the picture for the bigger view.
Also Opened in 1929 # 2 - Warwick Road South
It has the roof at the back you can walk out onto, as did Hardy Lane. It also has two satellite dishes. Click the picture for the bigger view.
Also Opened in 1929 # 2 - Warwick Road South
July 02 2010
Notice the background
Lucy rejoins the campaign trail from the South Manchester Reporter July 1st 2010.
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