mick2me 3,033 Posted April 27, 2012 Report Share Posted April 27, 2012 Stephenford I have only recently seen a picture showing a signal box originally on the land next to the bridge, Roosevelt Avenue side Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted May 2, 2012 Report Share Posted May 2, 2012 I was still using a Co-op divi number until I left the Falkland Islands in 1988. My number was 351 Port Stanley Co-op: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
trevorthegasman 150 Posted May 2, 2012 Report Share Posted May 2, 2012 Need to add my number to this I went shopping with my mum to that new supermarket with the wire baskets on Kirkewhite St just before Wilford Rd.. 102626 (will take it to the grave.) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paulus 541 Posted May 2, 2012 Report Share Posted May 2, 2012 105989.................105989..105989....105989, never to be forgotten, me mam would make me repeat it before I was sent shopping, I'd keep saying it over & over............all the while. whilst running down Ambleside road to Co-op on Aspley Lane..................105989.............105989 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jackson 301 Posted May 2, 2012 Report Share Posted May 2, 2012 Paulus, I had a good school friend lived on Ambleside Road, name of Elaine Dawson - know her? We used to swap comics, as we kids used to back then. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jackson 301 Posted May 2, 2012 Report Share Posted May 2, 2012 Compo, Re your Port Stanley Co-op sign; when you're in a foreign country, it's always comforting to come across a Co-op sign - we must be mad! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephenFord 866 Posted May 3, 2012 Report Share Posted May 3, 2012 Mick - sorry, I've been away for a few days. Yes the signalbox was there, and just below, at the end of Roosevelt Avenue, there was a style (invariably populated by the local trainspotting fraternity). This led to a private footpath that ran along the base of the embankment to the sheet stores - it rose up to track level to cross the Erewash canal. Standing there while a Jubilee thundered past on a London - Manchester express was quite an experience,- nothing but a three rail fence between you and those thumping great 6 foot 9 inch diameter driving wheels. There were a lot of employees at the sheet stores, and an air-raid type siren, that could be heard all over Long Eaton, was used to mark the start and finish of the shifts. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paulus 541 Posted May 3, 2012 Report Share Posted May 3, 2012 Paulus, I had a good school friend lived on Ambleside Road, name of Elaine Dawson - know her? We used to swap comics, as we kids used to back then. Family name Dawson rings a bell, but 'fraid I didn't know her, I was born at 21 Minver Crescent in '51, we moved to 458 Aspley lane in '62, & I went to St Teresa's RC in Kingsbury Drive, then to the Becket RC Grammar in '62, so didn't have that many friends around the estate.................it was sure tough being a cat'lik in Aspley............not many about!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted May 3, 2012 Report Share Posted May 3, 2012 Thanks Stephen Nice to see you keeping up with posts on your return. I am finding it more difficult due to the volume. I'm not complaining mind Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Outlaw99 2 Posted November 3, 2012 Report Share Posted November 3, 2012 55444 and hey! here is a secret, the CO-OP is the only store that I know that gives you cash back for bying ciggies via it's card Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted November 3, 2012 Report Share Posted November 3, 2012 I got 147 quids divi this year just for banking and saving with the Co-op I am thinking that might even be twice a year Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,507 Posted October 10, 2013 Report Share Posted October 10, 2013 Double Nine Three Double Seven. We had Co-op deliveries for just about everything when we moved to a new estate in Arnold. Milk, bread, groceries (in a big library-type van), coal. Then a row of shops was built locally which took most of the business away from the Co-op delivery people. Now that lovely row of shops has become a load of takeaway outlets and everyone shops at Asda, Sainsburys and Tesco .......... not the Co-op !! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Pianoman 1,532 Posted October 10, 2013 Report Share Posted October 10, 2013 105989.................105989..105989....105989, never to be forgotten, me mam would make me repeat it before I was sent shopping, I'd keep saying it over & over............all the while. whilst running down Ambleside road to Co-op on Aspley Lane..................105989.............105989 Sounds like you are a Minver Crescent ite Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rob.L 1,088 Posted October 10, 2013 Report Share Posted October 10, 2013 67564 It's strange how so many can remember these things fifty years on. I suppose it's like my dad never forgot his army number from the war. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
colly0410 1,181 Posted October 10, 2013 Report Share Posted October 10, 2013 117713, when we moved to Chester-le-Street I gave them that number, they said "that's wrong our numbers have only got four figures!" they gave us a new number but it's gone from my memory.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Pianoman 1,532 Posted October 10, 2013 Report Share Posted October 10, 2013 67384 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Deeps 68 Posted October 11, 2013 Report Share Posted October 11, 2013 109382 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
AfferGorritt 868 Posted October 11, 2013 Report Share Posted October 11, 2013 33034 - but you had to say thirty three - oh - thirty four or it didn't work (or so my Grandma told me!) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MELTONSTILTON 452 Posted October 11, 2013 Report Share Posted October 11, 2013 Almost all 7's .............. 777473 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bilbraborn 1,594 Posted October 11, 2013 Report Share Posted October 11, 2013 41967 It was drilled into us at an early age. She used to buy our school uniforms with the divi. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mattsdigs 104 Posted October 11, 2013 Report Share Posted October 11, 2013 Had it drilled into all of us from an early age...128592. not been used since 1978. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Trevor S 2,003 Posted October 11, 2013 Report Share Posted October 11, 2013 12126 - still remembered after 55+ years and................if I listen carefully, I can hear my mother reciting the numbers to the cashier at the Radcliffe On Trent Co-op! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
annswabey 599 Posted October 12, 2013 Report Share Posted October 12, 2013 85721 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Donnyred 1 Posted October 12, 2013 Report Share Posted October 12, 2013 33567 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,464 Posted October 12, 2013 Report Share Posted October 12, 2013 When did the Co-op divi numbers stop being used? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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