Scottish Co-operative Discovery Centre
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Project based in the old bake house in West Calder to create a new home for the history of the Scottish Co-operative Movement.
It might be cold outside today in West Calder but not in 1973 if you bought a fan heater from the co - then you could lounge around in your swimsuit anytime of year.
October 30, 2025 at 11:12 AM
It might be cold outside today in West Calder but not in 1973 if you bought a fan heater from the co - then you could lounge around in your swimsuit anytime of year.
How to display your goods 1920s style- West Calder Co-op. Faithful as always to their SCWS brand.
October 28, 2025 at 10:31 AM
How to display your goods 1920s style- West Calder Co-op. Faithful as always to their SCWS brand.
We've a timeline up in West Calder Scotmid to celebrate 150 years of West Calder Co-operative Society. A lot of the customers remember it well before it became part of Scotmid in the 80s. It was one of the largest regional co-ops in Scotland. A great way to put names to the faces in the photographs.
October 2, 2025 at 8:36 AM
We've a timeline up in West Calder Scotmid to celebrate 150 years of West Calder Co-operative Society. A lot of the customers remember it well before it became part of Scotmid in the 80s. It was one of the largest regional co-ops in Scotland. A great way to put names to the faces in the photographs.
1975- West Calder Co-op show off their tiny TVs. You could buy a bagged up Mr Man along with your transistor radios and calculators.
August 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
1975- West Calder Co-op show off their tiny TVs. You could buy a bagged up Mr Man along with your transistor radios and calculators.
Summer seaside fun for the West Calder Co-op Society -1949.
July 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Summer seaside fun for the West Calder Co-op Society -1949.
We are delighted to be hosting The Co band for our 150th Jubilee concert to help us celebrate 150 years of West Calder Co-operative Society.
You can get tickets online now on the link below.
www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...
The Concert is at West Calder High School on Friday 20th June from 6.30pm.
You can get tickets online now on the link below.
www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...
The Concert is at West Calder High School on Friday 20th June from 6.30pm.
May 12, 2025 at 2:52 PM
We are delighted to be hosting The Co band for our 150th Jubilee concert to help us celebrate 150 years of West Calder Co-operative Society.
You can get tickets online now on the link below.
www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...
The Concert is at West Calder High School on Friday 20th June from 6.30pm.
You can get tickets online now on the link below.
www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...
The Concert is at West Calder High School on Friday 20th June from 6.30pm.
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#NationalTeaDay Where do you buy your tea? In the 1920s many in Stirling would have bought their tea from the Co-operative Society.
This image shows the interior of the Co-operative at Causewayhead in the 1920s.
📷 Courtesy of The Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum.
This image shows the interior of the Co-operative at Causewayhead in the 1920s.
📷 Courtesy of The Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum.
April 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
#NationalTeaDay Where do you buy your tea? In the 1920s many in Stirling would have bought their tea from the Co-operative Society.
This image shows the interior of the Co-operative at Causewayhead in the 1920s.
📷 Courtesy of The Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum.
This image shows the interior of the Co-operative at Causewayhead in the 1920s.
📷 Courtesy of The Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum.
Heinz promotion to win a Mini at the Leith Provident Co-operative, North Fort Street c 1965.
Photo courtesy of The Living Memory Museum, Leith.
Photo courtesy of The Living Memory Museum, Leith.
April 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Heinz promotion to win a Mini at the Leith Provident Co-operative, North Fort Street c 1965.
Photo courtesy of The Living Memory Museum, Leith.
Photo courtesy of The Living Memory Museum, Leith.
Broxburn Co-ops Fleshing Department's award winning gala day float. There's a lot going on in this photo - from a sheep's head in the basket to the monkey on the front of the van. Not one for the squeamish or the vegetarians
April 10, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Broxburn Co-ops Fleshing Department's award winning gala day float. There's a lot going on in this photo - from a sheep's head in the basket to the monkey on the front of the van. Not one for the squeamish or the vegetarians
Let's celebrate Autism Awareness day. Here at the Scottish Co-operative Discovery Centre Project we have been lucky to work with partners such as Autism Scotland and Carers of West Lothian so that autistic people have had input into the design and development of our project from the start.
April 2, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Let's celebrate Autism Awareness day. Here at the Scottish Co-operative Discovery Centre Project we have been lucky to work with partners such as Autism Scotland and Carers of West Lothian so that autistic people have had input into the design and development of our project from the start.
1970s divi stamp milk delivery promotion in Pumpherston West Lothian. Featuring Gerry Pickett the milkman and Co-op promo girl Cathy Carroll
April 1, 2025 at 12:39 PM
1970s divi stamp milk delivery promotion in Pumpherston West Lothian. Featuring Gerry Pickett the milkman and Co-op promo girl Cathy Carroll
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The former Co-operative Store at Albany Gate, Glenrothes. Pic: zitozza
March 2, 2025 at 8:43 AM
The former Co-operative Store at Albany Gate, Glenrothes. Pic: zitozza
A queue inside the co-op in Stoneyburn sometime in the 1950s. Well turned out ladies with their headscarves and a good thick long coat.
February 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
A queue inside the co-op in Stoneyburn sometime in the 1950s. Well turned out ladies with their headscarves and a good thick long coat.
Good to see Co-operative trousers could give pleasure, profit and comfort to a peer of the realm. As featured in The Co-operator 1890.
February 25, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Good to see Co-operative trousers could give pleasure, profit and comfort to a peer of the realm. As featured in The Co-operator 1890.
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A few spaces left on the upcoming workshop "Empire Retold: Glasgow’s 1938 Empire Exhibition in Augmented Reality" - sign up here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/empire-ret...
2 part workshop: Monday 3rd and 17th March.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/empire-ret...
2 part workshop: Monday 3rd and 17th March.
Empire Retold: Glasgow’s 1938 Empire Exhibition in Augmented Reality
Participate in a creative workshop to share your stories and perspectives of Glasgow’s 1938 Empire Exhibition and receive a voucher.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
February 17, 2025 at 3:56 PM
A few spaces left on the upcoming workshop "Empire Retold: Glasgow’s 1938 Empire Exhibition in Augmented Reality" - sign up here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/empire-ret...
2 part workshop: Monday 3rd and 17th March.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/empire-ret...
2 part workshop: Monday 3rd and 17th March.
Bo'ness Co-op promotional shots c 1971. The idea seemed to be leave cute kids in a trolley beside the SCWS tinned goods and catch the shoppers reactions.
February 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Bo'ness Co-op promotional shots c 1971. The idea seemed to be leave cute kids in a trolley beside the SCWS tinned goods and catch the shoppers reactions.
Broxburn Co-op Furnishing Department van all fancied up for the Gala day parade. c 1930s Photo courtesy West Lothian Council
February 12, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Broxburn Co-op Furnishing Department van all fancied up for the Gala day parade. c 1930s Photo courtesy West Lothian Council
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RP Postcard, shop interior, Scottish Cooperative store, unidentified location
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February 5, 2025 at 5:37 AM
RP Postcard, shop interior, Scottish Cooperative store, unidentified location
#socialhistory
#postcard
#retail
#shopinterior
#oldpostcard
#coop
#socialhistory
#postcard
#retail
#shopinterior
#oldpostcard
#coop
The SCWS advertising department liked a play on words when it came to naming their products. Here we have Rubitof - the cleaner- for everything but clothes.
February 5, 2025 at 12:52 PM
The SCWS advertising department liked a play on words when it came to naming their products. Here we have Rubitof - the cleaner- for everything but clothes.
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Stepping back in time to the 1900's and a look inside the Co-op Stores Hardware department at the Beamish living museum. #SocialHistory
#FSPrintMonday #ShareMondays2025 #POTD #ThePhotoHour #BNWPhotography
#FSPrintMonday #ShareMondays2025 #POTD #ThePhotoHour #BNWPhotography
February 3, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Stepping back in time to the 1900's and a look inside the Co-op Stores Hardware department at the Beamish living museum. #SocialHistory
#FSPrintMonday #ShareMondays2025 #POTD #ThePhotoHour #BNWPhotography
#FSPrintMonday #ShareMondays2025 #POTD #ThePhotoHour #BNWPhotography
West Calder staff dance c 1973. It took us a while to work out who the special guests were. It's two of The Wombles. Remarkable costume work.
February 4, 2025 at 11:54 AM
West Calder staff dance c 1973. It took us a while to work out who the special guests were. It's two of The Wombles. Remarkable costume work.
As it's National Pie Day in the US we are using it as an excuse to post our favourite bakery line up. West Calder Co-op Society, Addiewell bakery 1898. Addiewell was a new town established in the 1860s to house the workers of 'Paraffin' Young's chemical works. The floury footprints make this photo.
January 23, 2025 at 10:37 AM
As it's National Pie Day in the US we are using it as an excuse to post our favourite bakery line up. West Calder Co-op Society, Addiewell bakery 1898. Addiewell was a new town established in the 1860s to house the workers of 'Paraffin' Young's chemical works. The floury footprints make this photo.
United Co-operative Baking Society supplied the bread and baked goods needs for a lot of the Glasgow Co-operative Societies. Before protein for fitness there were carbs. This was part of the post war healthy eating and fitness campaigns.
January 15, 2025 at 4:19 PM
United Co-operative Baking Society supplied the bread and baked goods needs for a lot of the Glasgow Co-operative Societies. Before protein for fitness there were carbs. This was part of the post war healthy eating and fitness campaigns.
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A burst of energy from a damaged image
Young boys in 1911 London, playing at trade unionists, complete with their own London Carmen's Trade Union sashes and homemade banners / flags. Cloth caps on almost every head and, in at least one case, no shoes
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Young boys in 1911 London, playing at trade unionists, complete with their own London Carmen's Trade Union sashes and homemade banners / flags. Cloth caps on almost every head and, in at least one case, no shoes
[from mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/RTO/... ]
January 7, 2025 at 12:32 PM
A burst of energy from a damaged image
Young boys in 1911 London, playing at trade unionists, complete with their own London Carmen's Trade Union sashes and homemade banners / flags. Cloth caps on almost every head and, in at least one case, no shoes
[from mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/RTO/... ]
Young boys in 1911 London, playing at trade unionists, complete with their own London Carmen's Trade Union sashes and homemade banners / flags. Cloth caps on almost every head and, in at least one case, no shoes
[from mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/RTO/... ]
Bo'ness Co-operative Society float for a Bo'ness Infirmary Pageant. Advertising both the ethos of co-operation and co-operative goods.
January 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Bo'ness Co-operative Society float for a Bo'ness Infirmary Pageant. Advertising both the ethos of co-operation and co-operative goods.