Derby Road Co-operative Store

The former Co-operative stores building on Derby Road has had many uses over the years, since opening as a Co-op store in 1926, and there is currently a planning application in to convert the upper floors to flats.

Former Co-operative store on derby Road undergoing renovation

The Co-operative Society was begun by pioneers in Rochdale – the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers – a group formed in 1844 of 28 people, half of whom were weavers, who found themselves descending into poverty because of the mechanisation of work they’d previously done manually and skillfully. And so, the 28 tradesmen worked together to open a food store, each contributing £1, which enabled them to purchase foodstuffs that individually they would not have been able to afford. As we now know, this led to the successful Co-operative Society movement across the country.

Leicester’s Co-op society began in 1860, and like the Rochdale group consisted mostly of weavers, web weavers to be precise, although there were only 7 of them. Messrs Woodford, Wilford, Norton, Herbert, Sharpe, Silverwood and Burrows each contributed 3d. to the share account and so formed the society. After a difficult few years, by 1871 the society was thriving and had a membership of over 3,000 and 12 stores.

By comparison, the Loughborough Co-operative movement was certainly active as early as 1866, for in November of that year there is a newspaper report covering a great reform demonstration that was held in the town, which mentions the group:

“Following the example of other large towns…a great demonstration took place at Loughborough for the furtherance of the cause of Reform.”

“At two o’clock a procession began to be formed in the Market Place, in front of the Corn Exchange [Town Hall], in the following order: The Nottingham Temperance Sax-Tuba Band, the deputations from Leicester and Manchester, the General Committee in a wagonette, with postillion, the Leicester Albion Band, the Loughborough Trades’ Unions, and Friendly Societies, the Loughborough Co-operative Society and Band …”

Further reference to a Loughborough store appears in a newspaper of December 1867, when the store on Wood Gate was advertising for a grocer’s assistant: they wanted someone who was at least partway through their seven-year apprenticeship.

The former Co-op store on Wood Gate

I haven’t investigated the history of the Wood Gate store, apart from the fire of 1884, so let’s move onto the Derby Road store. We know from the façade of the building that it was built in 1926, and we know from the look of the façade that it is clad in faience tiles. If these tiles were provided by the Hathern Station Brick and Terra Cotta Company, they would be known as Hathernware. The Co-operative building is situated adjacent to the Burleigh Brook, which is itself on the Derby side of what was then the Charnwood Forest Railway, which terminated/began at the Derby Road between the brook and what was the Station Hotel, now a funeral parlour.

Former Co-op store on Derby Road

Former Co-op store on Derby Road showing detail

 

Former Charnwood Forest Railway building

In January 1932, the building was the subject of an attempted burglary, by a person armed with a screwdriver, a flash-lamp, a file and a gimlet. Clearly, the building was at one time surrounded by a fence, as the man was apprehended by a police constable who had unlocked the front gate and found the burglar, sitting on the steps of the store.

In February 1939, due to the diligence of a local fire-fighter, who noticed smoke coming from the garage associated with the Co-op, serious damage to the buildings was averted, as he single-handedly tackled the blaze. The garage at the back housed the mobile shop which used to travel around various parts of Loughborough at one time.

The building had space upstairs that was big enough to be used for parties, wedding receptions, dance lessons and dances.

In 1960 the Loughborough Co-operative Society merged into the Leicester Co-operative Society, the latter being joined with Oadby in 1957, and Glenfield, Kirby Muxloe, Ratby, Quorn, Croft and Groby having joined in 1959. Burbage also joined the Leicester society in 1960, while Mountsorrel joined in 1963. Further mergers continued until in 1969 the Leicester Co-op Society itself merged and became part of the Leicestershire C-operative Society.

South Leicestershire Co-operative Society was the last to join the Leicestershire Co-op in 1984, before In 1985, the Leicestershire Co-operative Society merged with the Central Midlands Co-operative Society to become the Midlands Co-operative Society. In 2001 the latter was joined by the Chesterfield and District Society, followed in 2006 by Desborough and Ilkeston, and by 2010, the Midlands Co-operative Society was the biggest independent retail society in the UK.

The Derby Road Co-op seems to have continued to be a Co-op store into the 1970s, but certainly by about 1978 it had become a sort of bric-a-brac shop selling railway-related items, upstairs was a working model train. Later, the shop became a pine furniture shop and finally ended up being a Chinese restaurant. In 2017 it was reported that it was to become a venue and meeting place for the Redeemed Christian Church of God, but that seems never to have happened, and the place has remained empty since then … until now, as it is being renovated and converted to flats.

The question still remains, however, as to what the No.1 on the building’s façade, relates to. Several theories have emerged:

*Was it the first Co-op in Knightthorpe? It could not have been the firstCo-op store in Loughborough, as the store on Wood Gate opened in the 1860s

*Had the Loughborough Co-operative Society merged with another local society, and this was the first building to be built and occupied by the merged Society?

*Was it a road number? Perhaps intended to be the start of Alan Moss Road?

*Was it the first of Loughborough's buildings to be clad in Hathernware faience tiles?

*Was it the first to be built along the Charnwood Forest railway line, with others planned along the route?

*Was it the first self-service Co-op in the area?

Anyway, over the years there have been, and indeed still are, various Co-op stores across town including, on Loughborough High Street and Swan Street, on Lansdowne Drive, on the site of the Maltings pub off Epinal Way, on Nottingham Road, on Derwent Drive and on Ashby Road.

Posted by lynneaboutloughborough 27 June 2021

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Scams, burglary and other crimes

And not forgetting highwaymen!

Today it feels as though our lives are plagued by scams, but it appears that scams are nothing new! On July 15th, 1786, the following report appeared in The Times:

"The following new species of swindling was executed with success a few days ago at Loughborough. Mr Fisher, of that place, who keeps the Sign of The Boot, and deals in horses, being from home, his wife, on Thursday, the 29th, received information by a person, who said he came on purpose, that her husband had the misfortune to have a fall from his hoses, and then lay in a dangerous situation at Bromsgrove, wither he must go immediately; and further informed her, he had brought a mare with him for her more easy conveyance. He left the mare accordingly, and took back a pony belonging to Mr Fisher, for himself to ride. It since appears, that the whole story was fabricated to defraud Mr Fisher of his pony; and that the mare left at his house was stolen from near Birmingham, and has been owned. Neither was Mr Fisher at Bromsgrove at the time, nor is there since."  

House burglary and break-ins are also not just a modern occurrence, as this report from September 1787 shows:

"It is said that Frost, one of the fellows under confinement for the robbery at Mr Webb's at Cote, was tried at Derby at Lammas assizes 1780, for a highway robbery, of which he was convicted, but afterwards reprieved and sent to the Thames: In October 1784, he was accomplice of the noted Abraham Shah, in committing a burglary in the house of Wm. Vann, Esq. of Belgrave (of which Shah was convicted and suffered death). The same night that Mr Vann's house was broken open and robbed, Mrs Glen of Loughborough, had also her house broke open and robbed; and Shah and Frost, having been seen to pass Loughborough that morning, were pursued; Shah was taken, and there was found upon him a part of Mr Vann's property, together with a considerable quantity of plate, the property of Charles Loraine Smith, Esq., of Enderby, of which he had been robbed in October 1782. Frost was then with Shah, but escaped, finding means to unload his pockets of more stolen property that belonged to Mr Smith, which was found thrown into a ditch in the above fields. There is not the least doubt that Frost belongs to a most dangerous gang of house-breakers and robbers; he comes from Sheffield, is a low-set man, and by trade a knife-blade grinder."

Not all crimes are pre-conceived, as is shown by the following report from the Nottingham Evening Post of October 1916, which pertains to lights being left ablaze in contravention of the Lighting Order of 1916, which was brought in on 10th January 1916:

"Loughborough Lighting. Technical Institute Principal Fined. At the Loughborough Petty Sessions today Herbert Schofield, principal of the Technical Institute, Loughborough, was summoned for offences against the Lighting Order regulations in respect of the institute and of the Higher Elementary School.

Supt. Agar said there were three lights which were bad at the institute, and one case at the school. Two witnesses were called in support.

Mr Schofield said he was responsible for the whole of the evening schools in the county, and could not be there every night. The appliances were provided, and the staff were now to be responsible if through carelessness the law was broken. Fined 20s. in each case, with 2s. expenses."

The report goes on to mention further breaches of the regulations:

"Frank Tollington, manager to the Wood Gate Co-operative Stores, Loughborough; Edward Reede, secretary of the Mountsorrel Methodist Free Church and Alfred Parker, Burder Street Loughborough, were each fined 15s. or 10 days for the neglect of the Lighting Order provisions."

You can read more about the Co-operative Stores on Wood Gate in a previous blogpost, and more about the Zeppelin raid on 31st January 1916 on this blogpost, when the Herbert Morris factory was hit, because its lights were shining out.    

Pubs have often been the hosting venue for sales, usually auctions of property, goods or wood from the forests, but sometimes customers can be found unofficially selling things. On February 17th, 1926, the Leicester Daily Mercury reported on a sale of hosiery that took place in a Loughborough pub, under the heading: 'Tap-room sale of hosiery: alleged factory robbery at Thurmaston.

"A sale of hosiery in the tap-room of a Loughborough public house, was referred to at Leicester today, when Frederick Jesson (37), of no fixed abode, was committed for trial at the Quarter Sessions on the charge of breaking and entering the factory of Messrs. Moore Eady and Murcott Goode, Thurmaston, and stealing 15 cashmere jumpers and 23 pairs of artificial and other hose, value about £12 7s. 6d.

Mrs Unwin, wife of the licensee of the Cooper's Arms, Loughborough, said Jesson opened a parcel of hosiery, and declared it had been given him at Nottingham, where he had been engaged on a big fire job.

Jesson sold several articles, and then asked her to give him 6s. on the parcel, and she did so, telling him he could have the parcel when he called for it.

The factory was stated to have been entered after a board in a window had been forced off, during the night of January 31st.

Jesson was subsequently arrested at Hinckley on another charge, and in a signed confession mentioned the factory at Thurmaston and another at Wigston."

Posted by lynneaboutloughborough 4 July 2021

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Midland Brewery Company

The Midland Brewery Company Ltd. 

Midland Brewery Advert from 1889

Over the recent weeks one of the interesting pieces of information I have come across concerns the Midland Brewery Company, which was at one time based on Derby Road, in Loughborough. In his wonderful book of boozers (1), my friend Bill talks a bit about the MBC, and the following article appears in a publication from 1892 (2). It’s so interesting that I have quoted it in full, on the grounds that the original document is now out-of-print, and what I have quoted I less than 10% of the total text.

“The Midland Brewery Co. is one of the oldest limited liability companies in existence (3). For many years it has been practically the only representative of the brewing interest in the Loughborough district, and as the directors are just about to inaugurate important changes with a view to a further extension and development of the business, some slight account of the resources at their disposal may not come amiss.

Fairly typical layout of brewery buildings of the time

The company’s premises adjoin the Derby Road, the offices fronting on the highway and the malt houses, brewhouses and stores are built in two ranges to the rear. Entering the yard, and making our way to the new malthouse, we are shown the various processes involved in the preparation of barley for brewing purposes. Here in the basement are large tanks in which the barley is steeped, and a splendid concrete growing floor, 100 feet in length by some 30 feet in width. Overhead is another growing floor of similar dimensions, as well as two kilns, which are heated by means of furnaces in the basement.

The average malthouse does not afford much scope for description. There is a level waste of soft grain broken up by rows of iron pillars, and lighted by a double row of windows. A quiet, inactive sort of place, in which very little seems to be done, and yet it is here but the quality of the ale to be brewed is in a great measure determined, for if the malting be bad or insufficient, a corresponding deterioration in the liquor produced, follows as a matter of course.

An example of a malting floor

The Midland Brewery Co. manufacture the whole of the malt used in their brewery, and their steeping and growing floors, kilns etc., are arranged on scientific principles. Leaving the maltinghouse, we find a portion of the same block of buildings devoted to the purposes of a malt store or garner, whilst at some little distance away are the stables and dray-houses, coopers’, smiths’ and painters’ shops etc.. The company do their own coopering and painting.

The next object to attract our attention is the brewhouse, containing the capacious mash tub with its interior machinery of revolving forks known in the trade as a ‘porcupine’. The tub has a capacity of over 2,000 gallons, and to get a peep into its depths it is necessary to ascend a wooden stairway which communicates with a sort of gallery built around the brim. From the mash tub the liquor is drained off into the under back (4), it is then forced up into the copper where the hops are added, and passes from the hop-back (5) into the coolers - a series of shallow tanks which occupy a large room over the fermenting room.

Of the variety of hot and cold-water tanks, refrigerators, tubs, coppers, pipes etc., which we saw in the main portion of the brewhouse, we shall not attempt any detailed description. Every nook and corner of the place, which is traversed by galleries and stairways in every direction, seem to be fitted with bulky apparatus of one sort and another, all no doubt useful and necessary, but to the uninitiated, somewhat puzzling.

Passing to the fermenting room, we are shown six large vats - known as ‘rounds’ - in which the actual process of fermentation is taking place, and we afterwards pay a visit to the ‘union’ room, which in the matter of appearance is perhaps the most striking department of the establishment. Here are 72 unions, arranged in long rows and built on frames, which with their polished ‘tits’ and pipes make a very neat show. It is in the ‘unions’ that the fermentation of the liquor is completed, and from them it is sent by means of pipes to the ‘running-in’ room, where the barrels are filled.

Adjoining are the stores; they are wonderfully cool and airy, and at a rough guess we should say they afford a floorage of 4,000 square feet.  From the stores we proceed to the tasting room and the wine and spirit department. The Midland Brewery Co. have long had a reputation for the high quality of their wines and spirits, as well as for the excellence of their ales. They hold a large bonded stock in addition to the stores kept at the brewery. It is in this department more especially that the changes mentioned at the commencement of this article will take place, for the company is about to add the compounding and rectifying of spirits to their already comprehensive business.

They do an extensive public trade, and have built up a big connection amongst farmers and private families. The bottling of ales, stouts, wines, spirits etc. forms an important feature of their business. A vigorous adherence to the best traditions of the brewing industry characterise the whole place. Cleanliness is one of the great points insisted on. The plant is captain capital condition, and the barrel-washing etc. is conducted on a regular system, into which steam enters very largely. The machinery is driven by a horizontal engine, hydraulic power being employed to drive the lifts. The company’s premises occupy an area of nearly four acres.  Besides the buildings we have mentioned, there are offices, a testing-room, and brewer’s office, a house for the manager, and a number of cottages for the workmen.”

References:

(1) Wells, Bill (2014). Billy’s book of Loughborough boozers. Loughborough: Panda Eyes.

(2) Loughborough: its history, manufactures, trade. Brighton; London: Robinson, Son & Pike, 1892

(3) I have found references in my research that suggest the Midland Brewery existed in 1812, and perhaps as early as 1791.

(4) the 'underback' - a 'back' is a vessel, so a vessel usually below the mash tun (vessel in which the mixing together of gist and hot water at precise temperatures to form malt sugars, i.e. mashing takes place), which collects wort (unfermented beer) during sparging (the spraying of hot water over mash in the mash tun through a rotating arm to ensure complete extraction of the malt sugars)

(5) 'hopback' - vessel designed to remove hops from boiled wort  

Posted by lynneaboutloughborough 19 June 2021

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Phantom development

You might remember in a post last September I shared with you some changes that had been happening in and around Loughborough, which included a new building that was being erected in the town centre, next to the Phantom pub (previously known as the Cross Keys)? It's been 9 months since that post, so I thought it was about time I re-visited the construction site, and had a look to see where it was at. Although I haven't been out and about much over the past 15 months as I would have done pre-pandemic, and haven't regularly walked over that way, I do seem to have a selection of photographs covering various times in the past 9 months, to share with you. 

Not so long ago, this area, on High Street was home to a blacksmiths, a jewellers, the army surplus store and the carpet shop both in the old church, and Anglian windows. Down on Pinfold Gate was Momento Mediterranean restaurant, a curry restaurant, a barbers, a baby shop, a tattoo parlour, an acquatics shop and a motorbike shop. Round the corner on Aumbry Gap was Corah the builders, followed by Groups Music Tuition, a gym and a furniture shop, whose entrance was off Barrow Street, and then a tyre place.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy seeing photographs of what's happening to this area at the moment.    

October 2020 from Southfields Park

From Moor Lane, November 2020

February 2021

On Pinfold Gate, 9 April 2021

From High Street, 9 April 2021

From High Street, 9 April 2021

From Leicester Road, 22 May 2021

From Leicester Road, 22 May 2021

From medical centre car park, 23 May 2021

From medical centre car park, 23 May 2021

Looking up Pinfold Gate, 23 May 2021

Posted by lynneaboutloughborough 13 June 2021

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Occupations in 1851

Occupations listed on the 1851 census returns

Following the recent posts about the 1951 Festival of Britain, that made mention of the Great Exhibition of 1851, this week we are going to embark on a difficult and dangerous journey. So, we shall stay in 1851, the year of the Great Exhibition, and have a look at some of the data in the census returns of that year, relating to employment and occupations.

I say this is a dangerous journey because the information presented below is extracted from the census returns, and so reflects the thoughts of the day. Well, actually, more specifically, it was published in 1854, so the categorisations of the occupations not only includes occupations with which were are perhaps not familiar today, but also these are categorised in a way that we simply wouldn’t do today. 

The other thing to bear in mind is that comparison with later census returns is difficult because categorisation changed; what one enumerator would class as an occupation another enumerator might label differently (although some guidance was provided to enumerators); people’s own interpretation might be different and new occupations would appear, and obsolete ones disappear.  

Finally, before we look at some figures, we should note that women often worked part-time, and this might not be recorded in the census returns. This in combination with the fact that women often worked in the home, perhaps producing things for sale, or providing services like washing and ironing to people outside the family, indicates that work done by women as recorded in the census returns is not necessarily and accurate picture. 

What follows are some figures relating to the occupations of woimen as recorded in the 1851 census.

One woman was employed in each of the following 23 occupations in the 1851 census returns:

Others employed by Government	1
Employed by Local Government	1
Music mistress	1
Others - Boarding and Lodging	1
Nurse (not Domestic Servant)	1
Rag gatherer, cutter, dealer	1
Carrier, carter	1
Others connected with Shows, Games	1
Builders, house decorators	1
Dyer, scourer, calenderer	1
Butcher	1
Miller	1
Wine and Spirit Merchant	1
Others dealing in Drinks, Stimulants	1
Cabinet-maker, Upholsterer	1
Others dealing in Wood Furniture	1
Rope, cordmaker	1
Flax, Linen manufacture	1
Coal labourer	1
Earthenware manufacture	1
Earthenware and glass dealer	1
Blacksmith	1
Needle manufacture	1

Two women were employed in each of the following 6 occupations in the 1851 census returns:

Officer of Charitable Institution	2
Engaged in Warehousing	2
Cowkeeper, milkseller	2
Workers, dealers in Stone, Lime, Clay	2
Labourer (branch undefined)	2
Shopwoman (branch undefined)	2

Three women were employed in each of the 11 following occupations in the 1851 census returns:

Cap maker	3
Other providing dress	3
Toll collector	3
In and connected with Barges	3
Gardener	3
Others dealing in Animal Food	3
Confectioner	3
Wood Tool makers	3
Other workers in Hemp	3
Tobacco-pipe, makers and others	3
Nail manufacture	3

There were between 4 and 9 women working in the following occupations in the 1851 census returns:

There were between 10 and 50 women working in the following occupations in the 1851 census returns:

There were between 51 and 100 women working in the following occupations in the 1851 census returns:

There were between 101 and 1500 women working in the following occupations in the 1851 census returns:

The women in the following categories were not in employment:

The employment status of women who were listed on the 1851 census as wives of men of specific occupations is not clear: they may have worked in those occupations in support of their husband.

There were no women employed in any of the 210 following occupations:

Church Officers

Law Court Officers

Druggist

Others dealing in Drugs

Engaged in Literature

Engaged in Fine Arts

Scientific persons

Scholar - under tuition at home

Scholar - under tuition at school

Hatter

Furrier

Shawl manufacture

Umbrella, parasol, stick maker

Merchant

Capitalist

Other General Dealers & Agents

Railway attendants

Others engaged in Road Conveyance

Owners & others connected with Ships

Employed about Messages

Others connected with Agriculture

Connected with Arboriculture

Other connected with Horticulture

Engaged about Animals

Bookseller

Others engaged about Publications

Actors and others about theatres

Musicians, musical instrument makers

Employed about Pictures and Engravings

Artificial Flower Maker

Others employed about Carving & Figures

Toymaker, Dealer

Designers

Medallists, Die Sinkers

Philosophical Instrument makers, dealers

Engaged in manufacture of Arms

Machine Makers, dealers

Carriage Makers, dealers

Harness Makers, dealers

Ship, Boat, Barge Builders

Implement makers, dealers

Engaged in manufacture of chemicals

Fishmonger

Dealers in Grease, Bones etc.

Dealers, Workers in Leather

Dealers in Feathers, Quills

Brush, Broom maker

Other workers, Dealers in Hair

Knitter

Woollen Cloth manufacture

Worsted Manufacture

Stuff manufacture

Clothier

Other worker, dealers in wool

Silk manufacture

Ribbon manufacture

Fancy Good manufacture

Embroidery

Other workers, dealers in Silk

Greengrocer

Others dealing in Vegetable Food

Tobacconist

Dealers in Oils, Gums

Timber Dealers, Workers

Workers, Dealers in Bark

Workers in Wood

Dealers in Wood Utensils

Straw Plait manufacture

Others working in Cane, Rush, Straw

Hemp manufacture

Thread manufacture

Weaver (material not specified)

Cotton manufacture

Lint manufacture

Fustian manufacture

Muslin Embroiderer

Calico, Cotton - Printer

Other workers in Flax, Cotton

Paper manufacture

Stationer

Other Paper workers, dealers

Coal-miner

Other dealers, workers in Coal

Glass Makers, workers

Salt makers, dealers

Water providers, dealers

Workers, dealers in precious stones

Workers, dealers in gold and silver

Copper-miner

Workers, dealers in copper

Workers, dealers in tin

Workers, dealers in Zinc

Workers, dealers in Lead

Pin manufacture

Button maker

Other workers, dealers in brass and mixed metals

Other workers, dealers in Iron, steel

Others persons of indefinite occupation

Others of independent means

Person of no stated occupation, living on alms

Lunatic of no stated occupation

Others supported by the community

Prisoner of no stated occupation

Others

Vagrant and others in barns etc.

The above just scratches the surface of the information contained in the 1851 census returns, and there's a huge body of further work that can be done, which would provide an interesting discussion. If I get time, I shall follow this up!

Posted by lynneaboutloughborough 23 May 2021

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Dyer, Lynne (2021). The Festival of Britain celebrations in Loughborough. Available from: https://lynneaboutloughborough.blogspot.com/2021/05/occupations-in-1851.html  [Accessed 23 May 2021]

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