A Co-op, an exhibition and a museum, it's got the lot

Well here is one of those double opportunities to pass on some history news.

My old friend Lawrence has an excellent blog and this week he is writing about the Rochdale Pioneers Museum,*“and a display of photographs with text at the Unicorn Co-Operative Grocery store in Chorlton.”

Now I tried downloading the images but they have been cleverly blocked but no matter, that just means you will have to visit his site, along with a trip to Unicorn on Manchester Road.

And once you have stocked up on all that this Co-operative Grocery store has to offer there is always the museum in Rochdale,** “which is the birthplace of the modern co-operative movement, where, on December 21st 1844 the Rochdale Equitable Pioneers Society opened their store selling pure food at fair prices and honest weights and measures. 

The business revolution that started here now involves a billion co-operators as members of 1.4 million co-operative societies across the world.

The Rochdale Pioneers Museum exists to preserve the original store of the Rochdale Pioneers and to generate an understanding of the ideals and principles of the co-operative movement.”

So as I said double opportunities all round.

*Hardy Lane http://hardylane.blogspot.co.uk/

** Rochdale Pioneers Museum http://www.rochdalepioneersmuseum.coop/


Picture; from the Museum site at http://www.rochdalepioneersmuseum.coop/