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in 1898 and 1914 and Thomas Waller Marwick in 1936. The 1930s section features a glass 'curtain wall', the first of its kind in Scotland, in contrast to the stone facades of its late 19th-/early 20th-century neighbours. The store closed in the early 1990s and buildings were converted for use as the
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As early as 1913, St. Cuthbert's had bought the Cliftonhall Estate which was almost 970 acres in area. In 1918, four more farms were bought on the Newtonhall Estate and in 1919, 780 acres were purchased at Bonnington, all near
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St Cuthbert's had many shops throughout Edinburgh, including a department store in Bread Street which was built in three stages to designs by three architects:
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with the aim of providing decent food at affordable prices in a shop controlled by its customers as a co-operative.
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In 1981 St Cuthbert's amalgamated with the Dalziel Society of Motherwell being renamed the
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St Cuthbert's expanded to become one of the largest societies in the
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Photographs by Peter Stubbs - St Cuthbert's Co-op Milk Deliveries
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as a milkman, earning him his nickname "the Edinburgh Milkman".
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From the Co-op with love.. the days Sir Sean earned £1 a week
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Scottish Midland Co-operative Society
consumers' co-operative
St Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh
Fountainbridge
co-operative movement
Rochdale Principles
Ratho
Midlothian
British co-operative movement
Sean Connery

John McLachlan
Thomas P. Marwick
Scottish Midland Co-operative Society
Scotmid History — Where it all Began
From the Co-op with love.. the days Sir Sean earned £1 a week
Photographs by Peter Stubbs - St Cuthbert's Co-op Milk Deliveries
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