What was your Co-op Divi number?


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I remember I was a patient at the Children's Hospital and the Doctor said I could go home and did I know my Mum's telephone number. No I said but I know her Co op number it's 92092

3009 - Varney Road, Clifton I can remember going in there with my Mum, who would look down her nose at people who asked for 'tick' (credit) or those who bought margarine instead of butter! I remembe

Do you remember that a lot of the co-op shops had a central cashier, and all the different departments were connected to her by an aerial despatch system. They put your money and check in the containe

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My mum's divi number was 9253. I think she signed up in 1946 when she and my dad moved into Elstree Drive Beechdale. 
A battery powered Co-op milk float used to come round too. It was a funny looking red vehicle. The wheatsheaf logo was on the front. A red Co-op bakery van also used to come round. They had some delicious looking stuff but mum always bought her bread from the Co-op on Ranmere Road. There was a Co-op chemists next door. Both flattened now I think. I used to love the shops on Ambergate Rd. the newsagents in particular. There was Mr Oliver's off license, a wonderful hardware store that smelt of paraffin and The Post Office which had a Bear Brand stocking advertising picture stuck on the window. It always reminded me of Teddy in Andy Pandy.

 

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Don't know about me mum's divi number but mine, opened in 1964 is/was 188762. Don't know if it's still valid, as we don't have a co-op anywhere near us.

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My mums was 109067 and they used to put it thru on the tills with sliding handle thingies (technical term) on the top of the till. I can remember going somewhere in town and queuing so she could withdraw it. Was it possibly at the big Co-op in town?

You have a plastic card now BK that they swipe through the till.

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Mum had an order book that was handed in to the Bracebridge Drive CO-OP on a Thursday and the groceries were delivered on the Friday. I remember Mum giving the Delivery boy 6d each time.

I also remember the red milk floats, i used to help the milkman out sometimes, I would only have been around 10,  and remember one day going up into Strelley village and he let me have a drive!

Mum preferred the Landers Bakery bread, he used to deliver every day too on Fairnley Road. 

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Mum’s number was 78314.  I remember going with Mum to the big co-op in Nottingham to cash them (I presume)

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283848  I'v a good memery for my age.

 

When I went with my mum to the CO_OP They had a large brown counter which was U shaped  First susger was put in blue bag 2lb then to the wooden barrel for butter patterd into squares and wrapped in grease proof paper. Then you carried on around the counter to finish your shopping, you paid for your shopping / money went into brass  bullet shape to be transported though a brass tube to the office upstairs. Change came back same way. Gave shop girl your address for groceries to be dilverd. What a Service.

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welcome Barbara look forward to reading your post.

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Now Now   nooooooo yes!!!

 

PS Beekay are you back in the land of the living?

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2 hours ago, Barbara Everett said:

43925 - will never forget it - drilled into you by your mother!!

Yes, heaven help you if you forgot to give them your divi number. Ours is long forgotten.

I wonder how many on here use similar unforgettable numbers as passwords 

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11 hours ago, mary1947 said:

Now Now   nooooooo yes!!!

 

PS Beekay are you back in the land of the living?

Yes, I'm here Mary. It's just that we went to the supermarket for the first time in 14 months and chose our very own items. What an experience, I had to go and have a lie down in a dark room with relax music playing in the background, that way I recovered from the trauma. Might write a book about the whole issue. Maybe Uncle Brew and Uncle Phil will mentor me.........(tongue firmly in cheek).

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EEEEE -----you are awful   But I like you!!!

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