England's Co-operative Movement. An architectural history
Details:
- Author(s) Pearson, Lynn
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2020
- Pages 220pp; illus
- Publisher Liverpool University Press
- Place Published Liverpool
Topics:
- Name Buildings: building types
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
- Visit British Library's website
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Notes:
Deals with both the architecture and buildings of retailing societies and the production / distribution buildings of the Co-operative Wholesale Society. Chronological structure from 1840s. Heavily illustrated. Structured in three parts, viz: 1] 'Retail movement gains popularity, 1844 to the 1910s'; 2 'The boom years, the 1920s to the mid 1950s; 3] 'Decline, fall and rise. The mid 1950s onward'