Sheffield History Posted December 10, 2017 Share Posted December 10, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boginspro Posted December 10, 2017 Share Posted December 10, 2017 Looks like Hillsborough branch opposite the bottom of Dykes Hall Road, it was still there the last time I saw Sheffield. EDIT: That's the "new" Co-op, here is the old one with the new one starting to be built behind it. The new one opened in about 1961. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athy Posted December 17, 2017 Share Posted December 17, 2017 It's just clicked: would "B&C" have stood for "Brightside & Carbrook"? There was a milk lorry bearing that name which used to deliver along Gleadless Avenue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lysander Posted December 17, 2017 Share Posted December 17, 2017 Our B and C divi number was..805418.( last used 50 years ago) Go on an errand to the Co-Op and come home without the divi receipt then expect trouble from Mum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boginspro Posted December 17, 2017 Share Posted December 17, 2017 3 hours ago, Athy said: It's just clicked: would "B&C" have stood for "Brightside & Carbrook"? There was a milk lorry bearing that name which used to deliver along Gleadless Avenue. Yes Brightside & Carbrook was a very well liked and important movement in Sheffield. I worked for them in the 60's as a milk roundsman from Woodhouse dairy ( Originally Woodhouse Co-operative Society ) and at one time did the Hollinsend / Intake round so possibly did Gleadless Avenue. One thing I remember about working that area is that if an electric float was used it would some times run out of power, I have at times waited at the bottom of Normanton Hill for a tow home. Previouse topic on the B&C here ---------------- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athy Posted December 17, 2017 Share Posted December 17, 2017 Thanks, Bog'. I remember the delivery lorry as being red, and it was a proper lorry, not a "milk float" - Bedford perhaps, all I can remember is that it had the engine under a bonnet sticking out front, rather than under or in the cab as some smaller commercial vehicles did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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