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Old 20-11-2006, 23:13   #16
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Re: co-op in ossy.

In the photograph the shop on the end of the block, now flats, was also part of the Co-op. Upstairs there used to be a function room, as well as the grocers, butchers and furniture shop at groud level.

There also used to be a Co-op at the bottom of Fielding Lane on Catlowhall, and one up Stanhill as well.

Ossy Co-op was famous for paying out the biggest dividend in the country. On 'divvy day' Oswaldtwistle apparently used to resemble the wild west, as crowds of people ran down Union Road to spend their money.
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Old 20-11-2006, 23:16   #17
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Thought most churches these days were raising money to keep up the maintenance and struggling ,dont know why they would build another one

Their old church on Melbourne Street is for sale now (at £150,000.) As soon as it is sold building work is due to start on the new church, though were all the cars that use the site as a carpark will go I don't know. The council had the chance to buy the Co-op site as a carpark, but decided against it.
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Old 20-11-2006, 23:19   #18
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Re: co-op in ossy.

Oh I dont remember the one at the bottom of feilding lane where was that Garinda?
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Old 20-11-2006, 23:20   #19
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Their old church on Melbourne Street is for sale now (at £150,000.) As soon as it is sold building work is due to start on the new church, though were all the cars that use the site as a carpark will go I don't know. The council had the chance to buy the Co-op site as a carpark, but decided against it.
So would that be the Methodist church if i remember correctly melbourne st was methodist
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Old 21-11-2006, 01:01   #20
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So would that be the Methodist church if i remember correctly melbourne st was methodist
It used to be Methodist years ago, now it's a church called Melbourne Street Christian Institute. I don't know exactly what denomination it is now though.

The old Co-op was I think on Catlowhall Street, next door to what is now the Chinese chippy.
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Old 21-11-2006, 01:21   #21
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It used to be Methodist years ago, now it's a church called Melbourne Street Christian Institute. I don't know exactly what denomination it is now though.

The old Co-op was I think on Catlowhall Street, next door to what is now the Chinese chippy.

Ah right cant see what was wrong with the old melbourne st church it used to be pretty nice round there .
As for the co op must have been way before my time just dont rem that one at all ..be nice to see a pic of that though
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Old 21-11-2006, 11:54   #22
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http://www.propertyfile.co.uk/home/s...8&pid=10820476
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Old 21-11-2006, 14:10   #23
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Thats actually not a bad price for what it is
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Old 21-11-2006, 19:24   #24
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Thats right but im not sure whats there now as i havent been past for a while think that was kinda facing ossy clinic
Cheers I have a distant memory of one in that area but that's all.
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Old 21-11-2006, 19:50   #25
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Some old church buildings are hard to heat and it's preferred to build a new modern one. Springhill Methodists did that but then they seem to have diappeared.
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Old 22-11-2006, 16:30   #26
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I remember going into the old CO-OP when i was a little girl with my mum. She used to get the stamps and it was my job to lick em and stick em.
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Old 25-11-2006, 13:19   #27
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Does anybody know when the Co-op building was demolished, nobody seems to remember. I've been trying to find out for a while now, because i'm pretty sure one of my earliest memories is my Great Grandma waving at me through the window (she used to work there) But if it was demolished before I was born then its obviously a different building.
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Old 25-11-2006, 13:53   #28
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Upstairs there used to be a function room,
Remember the Co-op, but mainly the function room. My Auntie used to work there (well, not really related, but that's what you called your parent's friends in those days) doing the Catering.

My mum helped her on many occasions and she used to come home with some left over goodies. Think I helped myself once or twice. My memory was of mainly funeral parties, as wasn't as widespread to celebrate birthdays, anniversaries with a slap up meal then. Suppose sort of package deal, they insured you for a decent farewell, buried you and provided the function afterwards.
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Old 25-11-2006, 14:52   #29
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Does anybody know when the Co-op building was demolished, nobody seems to remember. I've been trying to find out for a while now, because i'm pretty sure one of my earliest memories is my Great Grandma waving at me through the window (she used to work there) But if it was demolished before I was born then its obviously a different building.
If i remember rightly lolly Iwould have been about 12/13 so it must have been about 20 years ago..
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Old 25-11-2006, 14:56   #30
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If i remember rightly lolly Iwould have been about 12/13 so it must have been about 20 years ago..

You are the same age as me hun, we weren't 12/13 twenty years ago...sadly.

I think it would have been demolished about 1983/4.
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