Rochdale Co-operation
Posted in Architecture, History, Museums at 20:30 on 8 September 2018
Rochdale is the home of the modern Co-operative Movement, through the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers
The original site of their first shop, in Toad Lane, is now a museum:-
Side view with Co-op Tea painted on the brick:-
The museum extends into the modern building you can see on the left in the first photo.
Just up Toad Lane are two shopfronts which are Victorian in appearance with lovely stained glass:-
On the other side of the entrance to Toad Lane is a memorial to the Kobe earthquake, which, from its inscription, seems to have something to do with the Co-operative movement:-
Tags: Architecture, Co-operative, Co-operative Museum, History, Kobe, Kobe earthquake, Rochdale, Toad Lane
